A garnet-filled celestial body orbiting Earth?

(NLDO) - Japanese scientists have just discovered a treasure trove of beautiful garnets hidden very close to Earth.

New research from Ehime University (Japan) has exposed the internal structure of the Moon, Earth's only official natural satellite, and drawn surprising conclusions.

Using high-pressure experiments, they concluded that the presence of garnet is the most plausible answer to explain the unusual seismic data observed at depths of 740–1,260 km below the Moon's surface, suggesting its important role in the structure and dynamics of the celestial body.

Garnets are found in the lower part of the Moon's mantle - Photo: CENTER FOR GEODYNAMIC RESEARCH, EHIME UNIVERSITY

Garnet is called by Vietnamese people by another very beautiful name, garnet, a very popular gemstone in the field of jewelry and fine art.

According to SciTech Daily, scientists used several samples from the Moon as well as seismic data recorded by spacecraft operating on this celestial body.

From there, they created a simulation of the Moon's internal conditions.

This process revealed that deep inside the moon, at the bottom of the mantle, the part near the boundary with the lunar core, is a layer of material rich in garnets.

These results provide a wealth of detail that helps explain how the Moon formed and changed over the 4.5 billion years since it coalesced from fragments of the primordial Earth and the planet Theia that crashed into Earth.

This discovery also once again demonstrates the physical similarity between this satellite and Earth, further confirming the hypothesis that both were formed from the shattered parts of the primordial Earth and Theia after the collision.

Because garnets are also found abundantly on Earth, also deep in the mantle.

We get our jewelry from this gemstone thanks to intense tectonic and volcanic activity that sometimes brings deep materials to the surface, such as garnets, rubies, and diamonds.

However, the two still have fundamental differences because the Earth was a solid sphere after the collision, with only a little material added from Theia.

Meanwhile, the Moon only formed later, when debris from the two planets orbited the Earth for a while and coalesced.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/mot-thien-the-day-ngoc-hong-luu-dang-quay-quanh-trai-dat-196240802111550422.htm