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Apollo rocks reveal the Moon had brief bursts of super-strong magnetism
General • February 26, 2026
Scientists at the
University of
Oxford have
finally settled a decades-long mystery about the Moon’s magnetic field — and it turns out both sides were right. By reanalyzing Apollo mission rocks, they discovered that the Moon did occasionally generate an incredibly powerful magnetic field, even stronger than Earth’s — but only for fleeting bursts lasting thousands of years or less. Most of the time, the Moon’s magnetic field was weak.
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