Science Of Space Exploration And Identification Of The Moon

The moon is by far the biggest and most easily recognizable object in earth’s atmosphere that can be perceived by the naked eye on a cloudless night. It is hypothesized that it came into existence nearly 4.5 billion years ago, from residual debris after a planetary body collided with earth. Although, considered the runner-up to the sun as the second brightest object in the sky, its illumination is deceitful, insomuch as the moon is not a source of light, but instead reflects the sun’s illumination from the half of the moon that is in direct alignment with the sun at that time. More readily identified as a satellite of the earth rather than as a planet itself or even a star, it has a diameter a quarter of the size of earth’s size and it

238,900 miles away, the earth’s moon is one that is truly unique. With a given age of about 4.5 billion years the Earth serves a major role in real life and in the book Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. When catastrophe strikes, Earth takes a turn for the worst and great natural disasters occur. Thousands die, but there are a number of survivors. If there are survivors, how beneficial is the moon actually? What would happen if the moon had been destroyed? How necessary is it for human survival? The Moon, is a great benefactor to human survival because of the benefits earth gets from it.

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It is still a mystery how the moon was formed. While there are a few theories, new studies support the theory that states the moon was formed from debris from a collision between the planet Earth and a rock which is thought to be about the size of Mars about 95 million years ago. This is known as the Giant Impact Hypothesis. While this theory shows us how the moon was created, it doesn’t indicate what happened to the rest of the debris, which formed the fictitious planet of Crasius.

In 1975, two scientists by the name of Dr. William K. Hartmann and Dr. Donald R. Davis, came up with a groundbreaking new theory on how the moon was created. Their theory stated “At the time Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, other smaller planetary bodies were also growing. One of these hit earth late in Earth 's growth process, blowing out rocky debris. A fraction of that debris went into orbit around the Earth and aggregated into the moon” (Hartmann & Herres 1). This theory is known as the Giant Impact Theory and is the accepted theory in the scientific community of how the moon was created. Even though this theory is accepted by most, there are still some people who don’t hold this theory to be true. I agree with Davis and Hartmann’s Giant Impact Theory that a great collision occurred and created the moon. The Giant Impact Theory is supported by the lack of iron on the moon, the moon rocks from the Apollo missions, and its acceptance in the scientific community.

Explorer 1 was America’s first satellite. It was under the direction of Dr. William H. Pickering but designed and built by Dr. James Van Allen. It was launched on January 31, 1958. Explorer 1 was launched on Cape Canaveral by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. It was launched atop of Juno 1 which was a modified Jupiter-C booster. Explorer 1 was much smaller than the Sputniks, only 30.66 pounds, but It made the first important discovery about the space environment. It discovered an existence of a belt of charged particles which is called the Van Allen Belts. Explorer 1’s external skin of instrument section was painted in alternate strips of white and dark green because it would provide passive temperature control of the

Many believe that while Early Earth was undergoing accretion, it had a massive collision with a large body- as huge as the size of Mars (see Fig. 2.). This collision produced a shower of debris around the Earth and thrusted it into space (Grotzinger and Jordan, 2010). “According to this theory, the Earth reformed as a boy with an outer molten layer hundreds of kilometres thick- a magma ocean.” (Grotzinger and Jordan, 2010). Marshak (2007) deduced that the Moon was formed from the accretion of the debris floating around the Earth. He also suggested that the Moon’s composition resembles that of the mantle because of the way the Mars-sized body collided with the Earth. From this, we can assume that when the collision happened- it did not disturb the Earth’s iron-nickel core that was already formed. The formation of the Moon must have happened 4.51 billion years ago- between the early stages of the accretion of the Earth which was 4.56 billion years ago,) and “the formation of the oldest Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts (4.47 billion years ago,)” (Grotzinger and Jordan, 2010).

Fireworks were the first rocket ever invented in China, and the technology kept on advancing. During the World War II, the Nazi Germany saw the potential of long-distance rockets in use of war. This realization made it possible for the Germans to invent 200-mile range V-2 missile, which arched 60 miles high at more than 3,500 miles per hour, and was used to attack London late in World War II. After the World War II, the United States and Soviet Union operated their own missile programs, which later resulted as the Space Race and gave massive impact to the Cold War. The Soviet Union sent the first manned satellite, Vostok 1, into space on April 12, 1961, and Vostok 2, on August 1961, which was the satellite with first whole-day flight. Although US were making progress, they were barely catching up with the rate Russians were advancing. So in 1961, President John F. Kennedy declared a national goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth within a decade.” And within a decade on July 20, 1969, Astronaut Neil Armstrong took the first on the moon.

On July 21, 1969 the United States government were the first humans to step foot on the moon, although people claim that this was a hoax. The reasoning for the hoax would be that the United States needed to assert their victory in the space race over Russia landing the Soviet Union. According to recent polls, approximately twenty percent of Americans believe that the U.S. never landed on the moon. This shows that a fraction of the American population genuinely believe that no man from the United States government made up the whole ordeal. Although recent studies prove that the landing was authentic, the factual evidence provided later in this paper will further explain. There are many claims provided to explain why this event is so speculated, but they can all be debunked. The “waving flag”, the lack of an impact crater, multiple light sources, and the lack of stars can all be explained by simple science.

No one knows how the moon was formed, but there are many theories that people believe. One of these theories is that the Earth used to have two moons that struck one another and formed the moon that we know today. Another theory is that planet Earth and a planet named Theia collided with one another, and the debris from the impact is what we call the moon. The theory that proves the most plausible is the one that claims that the Earth and planet Theia collided. There is some evidence that is able to prove this claim.

Earth rocks are very abundant in these minerals and other minerals that thrive in the high temperatures. They are almost completely deprived of these types of elements. Moon Rocks don?t. Moon Rocks also contain small ball like pieces of glass. The main theory on how this happened is by Moon dust being heated to extremely high temperatures along with other minerals. The hot dust would form a small glass piece, and the other minerals would form the rest of the rock. Earth rocks do not have this feature. .

The first knowing you need to know is, what is happening with moon orbiting the Earth? Well the moon is orbiting the

it seems that the fact that the american astrounat arrival on the moon holds some doubts on what actually happened

I chose the topic Space Exploration: Apollo missions because I grew up in that era and I live in Huntsville, Alabama where Wernher von Braun worked at the Marshall Space Flight Center and developed the Saturn V rocket that propelled the astronauts to the moon.

During the late 60’s and early 70’s, NASA had plans and was actively working on sending a crew of astronauts to the moon in what is known as the Apollo missions. In addition to appeasing the political demands of winning the Cold War, NASA was also interested in fulfilling the scientific questions of the mission to the moon. Questions that NASA were trying to answer was by what process created the moon, such as was it a captured satellite or was spawned from another planet colliding earth. Other questions included what the chemical makeup was and geology of the moon.