July 2024
Zircon crystals serve as timestamps for impact events on the Moon
Researchers have precisely dated zircon crystals from the Moon and found that most of the analysed crystals are around 4.338 billion years old. They bear witness to a huge impact at the South Pole of the Moon and shed new light on the early phase of our solar system.
In Memoriam: René Hantke
René Hantke, Adjunct professors in Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich from 1966 to 1992, died on 18 June 2024 at the age of 100.