{"id":21860,"date":"2019-06-26T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=21860"},"modified":"2019-06-26T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T16:10:09","slug":"baylor-research-discovers-mysterious-mass-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2019\/06\/baylor-research-discovers-mysterious-mass-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor research discovers mysterious mass on the far side of the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Baylor research drew national attention earlier this month with the announcement that a large, mysterious mass of material has been discovered beneath an enormous crater on the moon<\/a>, perhaps containing metal from the asteroid that formed the crater billions of years ago.<\/p>\n

“Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That\u2019s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected,” says the study’s lead author, Dr. Peter James<\/a>, a Baylor geosciences professor. The mass is buried far beneath a crater that stretches some 2,000 kilometers across — roughly the distance from Waco to Washington, D.C. The discovery gives researchers at Baylor and elsewhere a new angle to investigate on what the inside of the moon may hold.<\/p>\n