Suppose you landed on the Moon and were able to travel around on your Lunar bugg

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Suppose you landed on the Moon and were able to travel around on your Lunar buggy allowing you to see a wide variety of rocks and topography. Your mission is to determine the age of the Lunar surface in addition to understanding the Moon's evolution over time. You don’t have any laboratory equipment to work with and you left your mass spectrometer back on Earth (so you can’t use radiometric age dating).

Discuss the principles and tools you could use to determine relative ages of Lunar rocks and discuss evidence explaining how the Lunar surface has evolved through time.

In addition - Share some info you know about the lunar surface!

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In absence of every laboratory equipment required for lunar study ,eyes and hands are the equipments only left. The study of Geomorphology ,structural geology and the rocktypes can be noted in the lowlands and highlands .Also one should notice the types of craters present and their locations.The samples should then be brought to the earth and petrography should be studied properly.Also the information should be matched with the various satellite images and synchronize the information to give a full detail of the geological history of the lunar surface.

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