NEW YORK: Wispy bright regions scattered on the moon’s surface — were created by several comet collisions over the last 100 million years.
In a paper published in the journal Icarus, the researchers use state-of-the-art computer models to simulate the dynamics of comet impacts on the lunar soil.
Researchers from Brown University — Providence, R.I. — recently discovered that the mysterious swirls all over the Moon may have been caused by crashing comets.
Comets have been suspected as the cause in the past, but the swirls dont quite appear to be impact craters and this appearance may have fueled the mystery surrounding them.
Their sinuous shape is often accentuated by regions of low reflectivity that wind between the bright swirls.
The simulations gave way to information about how comet impacts could very possibly explain the mysterious features — particularly the swirls on the Moon.
The swirls would remain more brilliant than the surrounding soil due to those magnetic shields, the theory said.
