And now get ready for
some fun facts about the
moon:
The moons composition is
actually quite strange. Normally when a planet
is formed, the heavier elements are in the
core and the lighter elements are on the
surface. However, the moon is the exact
opposite. The lighter elements are in the core
and the heavier elements, like titanium and
other metals, make up the surface of the
moon.
Did you
know that someone has actually been buried on
the moon? In a way. Dr. Eugene Shoemaker’s
life long dream was to go to the moon;
however, he was denied becoming an astronaut
because of his medical conditions. So when he
died in 1999, they took his cremated ashes
and put it on a lunar spacecraft. They sent
it up to the moon and crashed it into a
crater. So in essence he fulfilled his life
long dream of going to the moon. Well, kind
of.
One small step for man, one
giant step for mankind. The shoe print that
Neil Armstrong left on the surface of the moon
will stay there for over ten million
years.
The moons
crust is a lot harder than we first
suspected. Astronauts have tried to drill a
hole into the crust and found that it was
extremely hard because the crust is made up
of hard metals.
The moon
doesn’t have volcanoes; however, it does have
“moon quakes.” Scientists have been able to
record these “moon quakes” and gaseous
eruptions and they’ve seen that they cause
red glowing lights sometimes. Now no body
knows where these red glowing lights come
from.
Apollo 15 was the first
mission to use a lunar rover; however, the
lunar rover only went to about 10.56 miles per
hour.
Lights on
the moon? People have been observing
unexplainable lights since before Plato was
around. NASA put out a report that says:
“Between the years of 1540 and 1967, they saw
over 570 accounts of unexplainable lights and
flashes on the
moon.
There is not enough gravity
on the moon for its size, and because of that,
some scientists have theorized that the moon
might be hollow.
We normally do not associate
the moon with how we weather or water;
however, lunar instruments have detected a
water vapor cloud kind of like fog, which
covered a 100 square area of land and lasted
for about 14 hours.
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