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Eruptions occurred on the enigmatic far side of the moon. the moon Billions of years ago, according to recent findings. Researchers examined moon dirt returned to our planet from China Chang'e-6 spacecraft, the initial mission to retrieve samples of rock and soil from the lesser-known far side of the moon, has successfully returned these materials. Two distinct groups discovered pieces of volcanic stone estimated to be approximately 2.8 billion years old. Interestingly, one sample was even older, traced back to around 4.2 billion years ago. 'To get a sample from this region is crucial since we currently lack any data about it,' stated Christopher Hamilton, a planetary volcanologist at the University of Arizona. Researchers have discovered evidence suggesting that active volcanoes existed on the near side of the Moon—the face we see from Earth—during a comparable period in history. Earlier research, which included information from NASA’s Lunar Re...