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"The Moon is made of green cheese" is a statement referring to a fanciful belief that the Moon is composed of cheese. In its original formulation as a proverb and metaphor for credulity with roots in fable, this refers to the perception of a simpleton who sees a reflection of the Moon in water and mistakes it for a round cheese wheel.
Panning causes the map to tile. Zooming to the closest level used to show that the Moon was made of cheese. [142] The map also gives the locations of all Moon landings, and the Google Moon FAQ humorously mentions a connection to the Google Copernicus hoax, which Google claimed to be developing.
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A disused stone cheese-press at the farm Auchabrack, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 1546, The Proverbs of John Heywood claimed "the moon is made of a greene cheese" (Greene referring to being new or unaged). [29] Variations on this sentiment were long repeated and NASA exploited this myth for an April Fools' Day spoof announcement in 2006. [30]
The phrase "the Moon is made of green cheese" refers to the similarity in appearance of a typical round, green cheese and the full Moon. It is commonly misinterpreted to mean that the Moon is green, which isn't the case. (The surface of the Moon is quite dark and could be described as having the color of old, weathered black asphalt.) [2]
In 1834 Johann Heinrich von Mädler published the first large cartograph (map) of the Moon, comprising 4 sheets, and he subsequently published The Universal Selenography. [3] All lunar measurement was based on direct observation until March 1840, when J.W. Draper , using a 5-inch reflector, produced a daguerreotype of the Moon and thus ...
Humans have left over 187,400 kilograms (413,100 lb) of material on the Moon. Besides the 2019 Chang'e 4 and SLIM missions, the only artificial objects on the Moon that are still in use are the retroreflectors for the Lunar Laser Ranging experiments left there by the Apollo 11 , 14, and 15 astronauts, Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander, and by the ...
Also, for naming, one should properly compare Moon+"made of cheese" with Moon+"made of green cheese" in Google Books, and the latter is far more common. (A web search gives a different result, but those are mostly ephemeral, non-RS sources.)--Pharos 12:56, 7 October 2015 (UTC)