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By Gabriela CarpPublished 5 months ago 8 min read
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All right, it's official to give up hope. that the moon is made of cheese after all wow not even Gudda the shiny lunar A ball or a curve banana, or part of it coin depending on the stage that it's in The different layers in there are the same as on Earth. One of these layers's called the interior. Scientists were core about 20 years ago Observing the rotation of the moon using that data.

They concluded that it had a water outer core but the internal core was It's hard to study, so they don't know if it's true. It was solid, like a rock or molten, Hot liquids, but the situation is now clearer. Astronomers have collected the data, Different kinds of missions, including Apollo

missions where astronauts went to the The moon and gathered information on its own Plus, they've employed a special technique. This method is all that's called seismic data to study the way sounds are moving. through things take earthquakes on our planet as an example when an earthquake And of course, it generates waves which travel. through the ground

Scientists are capable of detecting and analysing these waves to learn more about Earth's In the interior, this idea can be used as well Other objects in our solar system, or planets, or in this case, moon when Quakes or Moon Quakes

happen they generate sound waves and by carefully listen to, and study Such waves may be created by scientists. A detailed map of what's inside the object They'il be able to find out things like that Different layers, what they make of and how they're arranged to check the Moon's deep interior

scientists also use something called laser ranging this Method is used to measure the distance among them The surface of Earth and the moon very much our natural satellites are precisely and TDA. The inner core's a dense solid ball made up of Iron is approximately 310 Mi, like the Earth. wide which is nearly 15% the size of the entire Moon

researchers also have stumbled across evidence to support it. theory that there's a layer between the moon. surface and it its core called the As the mantle moved around, moon evolved over time this movement is something we call lunar mantle

overturn and it could Explain to me why it is that the elements are rich. Iron on the surface of the moon's mantle What's going to happen is material will be pushed upwards. And there's still a volcanic rock in there.

moon's crust some of the materials in this rock were too dense H like me so they just sunk into the lighter crust again. material en route to the core of the mantle boundary it's like a cycle where the During the moon's mantle material starts to rise volcanic activity carries iron-rich Elements to the surface, then sink back down

there's another mystery Scientists have been working to figure it out What caused this moon's electromagnetic field to be Over time it's been weakening and almost disappearing It seems as though we're aware of that now. The iron core and the globe mantle have been overturned. Maybe we'll get some more information on that. moon's magnetic field knowing what what I think the inner core can help us. to understand more about the history of the moon And the history of our solar universe as well. system

One of the theories that's out there. The origin of which is widely known. The Moon said there was an enormous crash. In the early stages, between Earth and There's another very strange thing in the solar system. A system that has been described as the Great Impact Theory, and this collision is so powerful. It's ripped off a large piece of it. Primitive molten Earth

Compared to that, I don't think it is so large. If you put a nickel in US, what will be left? You've got a good idea next to the green PE. Comparing the size of our planet with other planets. moon now this chunk was set into orbit around our planet and this might have happened about 95 million years after our solar system formed the object that collided with The mass of the earth could have been about 10%. of our home planet and roughly the size of Mars

well it makes sense Earth and There's a similarity between the composition of the moon There'll be other things, after all. ideas about how the moon formed one says that the gravitational force of our planet captured That means that the moon was just object innocently passing by when suddenly it got attracted and pulled into Earth's orbit there's even a hypothesis that the Moon was stolen by the Earth. In this case, the moon is from Venus shouldn't complain

I'd say this view is probably better, so yes to the moon and When it comes to rocks, the Earth is similar. and a few minerals, but not the moon. doesn't have the same atmosphere as our The atmosphere on the planet is low, is made up of some strange gases What is included are pottassium and sodium I don't see anything that you can find. atmosphere of Mars Venus or Earth and The moon's rocks have no contents. Water, but it doesn't mean there's no water. A long time ago, there was water up there the 17th century astronomers

saw large There are dark spots on the moon's surface, These are the spots thought by the astronomers. They look like oceans, and he's calling them. Maria

which means seas in Latin other astronomers also made maps of the Moon and they Ed the term Maria to describe these dark spots for example mayor tranquilatus translates to Sea of Tranquility where Apollo 11 made its touchdown but it seems those dark spots are not actually oceans they are PLS made of hardened lava that erupted long ago these volcanic eruptions Left Behind smooth flat areas called basalt ples in the late 1800s one sky .

The watcher examined the moon and found that it had no There's no atmosphere in there without an atmosphere There's not a cloud or no air to hold water. from evaporating so scientists thought that Any water on the moon, it would be just disappear right away they believe the The moon was totally dry, but then in 1961

One physicist's got a different one He made a point of saying there could be water. On the moon in some special areas called called permanently shadowed These are the spots on the moon Where the sun's not shining, so they're staying. dark all the time water ice could exist And because they are in these black areas. extremely cold and the ice wouldn't evaporate but when astronauts from the Apollo

Missions have been sent to the moon Bringing back soil samples and scientists There were no signs of water in them so far. everyone went back to thinking that the moon was completely NASA Focus on these dry in the 9s shadowed craters and found high The concentration of hydrogen, which meant that The moon's poles could be filled with ice. They're still not sure they're safe

so they kept dug and found hydrogen after a while. trapped in the tiny lava beads. glass since there are no active volcanoes in the moon today, which is what this means On the moon, there's probably water. long ago, when these volcanoes started to erupt. Plus, there'd be a lot more water back there. In our very first days of existence moon

The Sopia Mission of NASA is shown in 2020. What we've been looking for, There's water going on for quite a while. moon after all it turns out the water is concealed within the grains of lunar dust Or stuck in the sun's surface, The areas of the moon, so there's no oceans. like we have on Earth

But the question remains, at least, how did it happen? water even get there it seems the moon had a chaotic history back at the time when it was forming as probably most of the planets and moons in our solar system so there is some evidence that water came there from comets hitting its surface back in the old days or maybe even keeps on coming from those that are slamming into the moon right now we're talking about a chaotic situation where

When the moon's surface and dust interact with the solar wind, it creates even more problems, but we're waiting to find out more, because we all know that when you talk about water, you're inevitably talking about life, which is why we want to know. More for example, we might be able to learn more about the development of life on Earth through all that ice in craters by the moon's surface.

Comets may have brought all the ingredients needed, so if there's some of these elements still frozen on the Moon, why not?

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