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The Lunar Surface Remelted, Obscuring an Easy Answer to its True Age


How old is the Moon? Astronaut-gathered samples from the lunar surface put its age at about 4.35 billion years. However, other evidence suggests it's much older, around 4.53 billion years old.

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