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- An Italian-led team reported Monday that there's evidence for a sizable cave accessible from the deepest known pit on the moon. It's located at the Sea of Tranquility, just 250 miles (400 kilometers) from Apollo 11's landing site. The pit, like the more than 200 others discovered up there, was created by the collapse of a lava tube.
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Jan 18, 2022 · Scientists may have finally come up with an explanation for one of the Apollo program's most enduring mysteries: why some of the rocks brought back from the lunar surface appear to have been...
Mar 13, 2018 · The Moon Rock - Kindle edition by Rees, Arthur. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Moon Rock.
Jul 26, 2019 · As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the moon once again by the year 2024, and amid mixed messages from the U.S. administration regarding the upcoming mission, scientists reaffirm that the...
- The Origin of The Moon
- Water on The Moon
- Moonquakes
- Tidal Locking
- South Pole-Aitken Basin Anomaly
- Volcanoes on The Moon
“The fundamental question of how the moon formed, and how that relates to the Earth, is really the most important of the unknowns.” says Noah Petro, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. “Everything else comes after that.” You can thank Apollo ...
There’s water on the moon, and we’re not just talking about a little sprinkling of interstellar H2O—we’re talking about troves and troves of water-icethat could be sitting just beneath the surface, especially at the lunar poles. This water could be harvested to help generate a new form of spacecraft fuel or used to help sustain a future lunar colon...
There are earthquakes happening on the moon pretty frequently—otherwise known as moonquakes. Apollo-era seismometers installed on the surface measured these shakes from 1969 to 1977. That data has shown us that the moon is an active body, a far cry from the stale lifeless rock many assume it is. We’re already aware of a few phenomena that cause the...
There’s a reason we’ve only ever seen one side of the moon. It’s tidally locked, which means only one side of it faces Earth. This is not uncommon for moons in our solar system, but it’s still unclear exactly when this occurs, what conditions encourage it, and how it happens. In Petro’s mind, this mystery of tidal locking harkens back to the questi...
One enigma that’s sprung up only recently has to do with the discovery that something massive is lurking underneath the south pole of the moon, below the largest impact crater ever made in the entire solar system. Scientists have no idea what it could be, but it’s certainly big enough to affect the gravitational force exerted by the moon’s mass. Pr...
We don’t see volcanoes erupting on the moon these days. But research suggests lunar volcanoes were active within the last 100 million years, and on the scale of the cosmos, that may as well have been last week. The problem is, we just don’t know enough about volcanism on the moon to determine what this activity was actually like and what it did to ...
Jul 13, 2021 · Apollo 17 moonwalkers Gene Cernan and Harrison “Jack” Schmitt collected rock samples that initially confused lunar geologists. This new study examined samples at a nanometer-scale to reveal...
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The Moon Rock (1922) is Australian mystery writer Arthur J. Rees' locked-room conundrum. In fact, the room -- the murder scene -- not only is locked from the inside, but also two hundred feet up the cold wall of Flint House. And the house looms on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall.
