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Thermal state of the Moon at age 100 Ma. [1] Having a mean density of 3,346.4 kg/m 3, [2] the Moon is a differentiated body, being composed of a geochemically distinct crust, mantle, and planetary core. This structure is believed to have resulted from the fractional crystallization of a magma ocean shortly after its formation about 4.5 billion ...
Several processes can explain the presence of trace gases on the Moon: high energy photons or solar winds reacting with materials on the lunar surface, evaporation of lunar regolith, material deposits from comets and meteoroids, and out-gassing from inside the Moon. However, these are trace gases in very low concentration. [17]
Inside, a lightweight pressurized inflatable with the same dome shape would be the living environment for the first human Moon settlers." [ 64 ] The building technology would include mixing lunar material with magnesium oxide , which would turn the "moonstuff into a pulp that can be sprayed to form the block" when a binding salt is applied that ...
This new discovery has found the “hidden” structures at depths of about 300m (984ft). The new data suggests the first 130ft under the lunar surface is made up of layers of dust, soil, and rocks.
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), about 30 times the diameter of Earth. Tidal forces between Earth and the Moon have synchronized the Moon's orbital period (lunar month) with its rotation period at 29.5 Earth days, causing the same side of the Moon to always face Earth.
Science fiction in which robot R. Daneel Olivaw is depicted living inside a partially hollow Moon. [49] David Weber, Mutineers' Moon (1991). Science fiction in which the Moon is a giant spaceship, which arrived 50,000 years ago. [50] Moonfall (2022). Science fiction film portraying the Moon as a Dyson sphere enclosing a white dwarf. [51]
Moon landing deniers say there's clear photographic evidence of this, and point out that because there's no breeze on the moon, this must be fake. Apollo 11astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon ...
Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon.