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The heat spot is a suspected patch of radiation after scientists discovered a 31-mile mass of granite deep below the Moon's surface, suggesting it came from a once-active volcano
Without plate tectonics or water, granite is hard to make. But a 50-kilometer-wide hunk sits beneath the moon’s surface, lunar orbiter data suggest.
The discovery of a sizable granite deposit beneath a long-extinct lunar volcano by a geologist gives credence to the idea that the moon's surface was once covered in lava billions of years ago.
The new discovery "points to some not-yet-understood process that is responsible for the granitic formation."