The Moon Interior: An Experimental Study

Craters are best observed when the Moon is not full as when light hits the crater at an angle, the raised rum casts a shadow which emphasize the centre’s depth and makes calculation the diameter and depth of the crater easier with a smaller margin of error.

One primary goal of space exploration is astrobiological. Using lunar geology to determine the conditions of the early

The astronauts found on the regolith that the highlands have aluminum in its rocks and the regolith in the maria contains iron and magnesium which happens to be a major component of basalt. There was two main types of rocks found on the Apollo 11 site, basalts and breccias. The first type of rock was basalts were are solidified from molten lava. Basalts are made up of pyroxene and plagioclase which was formed by two chemically different magma sources and are dark gray which is why the Moon contains dark areas. The second type of rock are breccias which is composed of fragments of older rocks by the heat and pressure of meteorites. These samples from the regolith and maria provided facts that the maria was covered in lava flows and in the highlands provided how earth was like like 4.5 billion years ago. Apollo 12 mission contained basalts with low amounts of titanium and Apollo 17 mission had a sample of “orange soil,” which consists of small orange glass beads. The beads are glass because they cooled rapidly with no crystals insider and all had different colors from titanium. Scientists conducted on basalts and pyroclastic glass which showed that they formed when the interior of the Moon partially

Mostly every planet in our solar system has some traces of iron that can be found. But the moon is unique, because there is little to no iron on the moon. The Moon has an abnormally low density compared to the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars), indicating that it lacks high-density iron (Giant Impact Theory For Moon Formation Boosted 1). The density of the moon is 3.346 g/cm3, while the Earth is much denser at 5.52 g/cm3 (Cain 1). The moons low density correlates with the Giant Impact

The Moon’s permanently shadowed regions haven’t been exposed to sunlight in millions, or even billions, of years. The Earth’s 23.5° tilted axis allows sunlight to reach everywhere on its surface including the poles. But the Moon’s tilt relative to the Sun is only 1.6°, not enough to get sunlight into some deep craters near the lunar poles. These regions are some of the coldest, darkest places in the solar system. Volatile chemicals that would normally vaporize and lost into space such as water become trapped in these dark regions in solid

This doesn’t occur because of the moon’s gravitational pull, like with the affect on the ocean’s tides. Instead, the moon’s own rotation affects the earth’s larger rotation because the earth’s gravitational pull keeps the moon at a slower rate (Stroud, 17). This slow moon rotation forces the earth to slightly slow down its rotation, as well. According to Stroud in The Book of the Moon, this slowing down is at a .0002 seconds per day (Stroud, 21). Over the course of one hundred years, a day will be about two milliseconds longer (Anonymous, website). If enough years go by, those milliseconds will add up to seconds, minutes, and even hours. If an astronaut finds himself on the moon, the difference in time is immediately felt because it takes so long for the moon to complete a full rotation. Mitton says that “a day on the moon is actually as much as a month on planet earth,” (Mitton, 10). As previously mentioned, tidal acceleration is caused by the moon. This acceleration also affects the Earth’s rotation by accelerating the water towards the moon (Rose, moonconnection.com). This causes the water to bulge. This bulge’s size and affects depends on its distance from the moon. “As gravitational force acts to draw the water closer to the moon, inertia attempts to keep the water in place. But the gravitational force exceeds it and the water is pulled toward the moon, causing a “bulge” of water on the near side toward the moon” (Ross, D.A., oceanservice.noaa.gov). This pulling creates the bulge’s size and applies pressure that affects the rotation of the Earth. Although the affect is not too visible in any other way than ocean tides, it will, overtime, cause the Earth to slow

The origin of the Moon is, with quite certainty, one of the most bewildering matters that scientist still attempt to uncover. Although there is a certain theory that is currently favoured, Wizard and Muggle Astronomers from throughout the world are aware that this mystery is still not yet fully uncovered.

To many Muggles, the moon is really quite overlooked; we don't appreciate its role in life on Earth. As I have grown up with a similar attitude, I am interested in seeing how the moon affects beings. It's a pretty foreign concept to me. I am also interested, to a lesser degree, in the lunar legends topic as while I have heard many Muggle legends regarding the moon. I have Mi'kmaq (Native American) heritage and they have a legend about how the "man in the moon" was once a thief that had clay thrown at him, which he didn't have time to rub off before he returned to the moon. That is why the moon has dark spots, according to the story. I believe that wizarding legends will be drastically different, and I look forward to learning about

Even though our technology is so advanced, for example, we can predict hundreds of years into the future what the moon will be like, we still are not exactly sure how the moon was created. One theory is that the moon was torn out of the Earth's side when the Earth was very young and still in the beginning stages of creation. A second hypothesis states that the Earth captured a small planet-the Moon- and pulled it into its orbit (Gallant 116). But if this theory were to be correct, the orbit

Earth, the planet we humans live on. The Earth revolves around the Sun and the moon revolves around the Earth. The moon is Earth’s only natural satellite. If you didn’t know a satellite is a celestial body that orbits the Earth or other planets. Other than that, there is more about the moon. First off, the moon radius is around 1,079 miles. Secondly, the moon’s gravity is about 1/6ths of Earth’s gravity. Also, the moon has a thin atmosphere, which makes it unsuitable for humans to breathe. Other than Moon’s features, there is more about the moon.

One of the central points in the discussion of the peasants is whether or not the nobles’ exploitation of them, in the form of labour services known as “barshchina” or payments known as “obrok,” reached levels the serfs could not cope with. The answer to this question either affirms or refutes Moon’s thesis that the peasants created a logical and semi-successful system for coping with demands. Moon demonstrates with data collected at the time that although obligations to the nobles were increasing steadily until the emancipation, so too did the peasants’ economic abilities. However, this is a different conclusion from what some other academics, such as Robinson, come to. He argues that peasants’ situation improved strictly on paper. Land continually

Although the Moon completes one orbit of Earth with respect to the stars about every 27.3 days, the Moon revolves around Earth once with respect to the sun in about 29.5 days following a slightly elliptical path at an average distance of 384,000 km. The Moon's gravitational force is nine times less than the Earth's, which means that you would weigh nine times less on the Moon. The Moon is a dead world with no atmosphere. The sky is always dark, and you can see the stars and Sun at the same

Typical impact velocities of asteroidal objects on the Moon are between 15 and 25 km/sec. With these high velocities, in combination with the high frequency of impact, the cumulative kinetic energy on lunar surface exceeds the lunar internal energy released by

Enceladus is one of saturn's moons. The moon has an icy crust and under that it has water. Scientists suspect that the moon has a rocky core and the water might be drinkable. This moon was discovered by Frederick William in August, 28 1789. It took two years to get to Enceladus. The moon is very small only 513 km. It's possible that it has heat resources. The moon has these tiger like stripes that geysers erupt from. Scientist have found out that in these stripes are warm. Geyers may have been formed a little over a hundred million years ago. Ice or water that comes out of the geysers erupt eight hundred miles into space. The moon has a very thin atmosphere. Enceladus has a significant atmosphere that has water vapor. from the moon Light

The keen interest in knowing whether there is water on the moon has helped inspire several recent lunar missions, partly to see if life is possible but also because any realistic chance of colonizing becomes less feasible. While liquid water cannot endure at the Moon's  harsh surface, ice is believed to have survived at the Moon's poles where it is eternally cold. But now there is evidence that there is perhaps a significant amount of water deep in the lunar interior in the layer between the crust and outer core. Researchers Ralph E. Milliken and Shuai Li at Brown University, have used light data and satellite imagery to measure the makeup of volcanic deposits scattered across the moon's mantle and calculated there is as much water as Earth’s