• protist@mander.xyz
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    4 months ago

    https://archive.is/vhdRt

    In 2010, Nasa researchers found graphite – a mineral made up of stacked layers of graphene – in lunar samples collected nearly 40 years earlier by the Apollo 17 mission. After ruling out the effects of solar winds, they attributed the finding to the impact of meteor strikes on the moon.

    The Chinese scientists acknowledged that the impact of meteorites could also lead to the formation of graphitic carbon, as proposed by the Nasa researchers.

    This seems to contradict the headline

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      4 months ago

      The Southern China Morning Post may or may not be a completely unbiased source in the matter.