Ebook: Our Beautiful Moon and its Mysterious Magnetism: A Long Voyage of Discovery

Of all the millions, who have gazed at our beautiful moon over the millennia, those of us lucky enough to be alive in 1969, were the first to be able to witness human beings on the moon. Those grainy TV pictures are forever in our memories. Little did I know that the samples that Armstrong and Aldrin were collecting would play such a role in my life. At that time, my research group and I were busy trying to understand what happened when the geomagnetic field reversed its polarity and other aspects of the magnetic record of terrestrial samples. That was plenty to keep us busy.