Posted on 01/09/2011 12:03:44 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It's an unlikely marriage between state-of-the-art and 40-year-old technology that has yielded extraordinary results.
Signals from seismic sensors left on the lunar surface by Apollo astronauts in 1971 have revealed that the Moon has a liquid core similar to Earth's.
Scientists at Nasa applied contemporary seismological techniques to the data being emitted from sensors placed by their colleagues during the U.S. space program's heyday....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The moon rocks had to come from somewhere.
Hot cheese for your nachos!
If it is liquid then it should have a magnetosphere, because the moon doesn’t, then this means that our understanding of how our magnetic field is generated is not complete.
I wonder how the billions of years folks will try to spin this?
NASA
Never A Straight Answer
I’ll bet at some point we find oil and natural gas reserves on the moon.
No...speculation was that the Moon was hollow given that it allegedly ‘rang like a bell’ back in 1969.
The moon appears (from the article) to have a solid iron core, and a liquid layer above that.
Four things could be keeping the centre of the moon hot enough for all this action:
Gravity (Tidal) heating
Magnetic heating
Radioactive heating
Initial frictional heat of formation + retention.
I’d have to guess that radioactive heating and initial frictional heat are the main components, just like in the Earth.
Heavier (radioactive) elements naturally shift in towards the core of planets and planetoids during planetary formation. They produce heat, and that heat has nowhere to go. The ‘hot’ area of the Moon is tiny compared with the Earths, but apparently enough to maintain a ~ 80 mile liquid zone.
An 80 mile liquid zone is tiny compared to Earth’s. In addition, would a molten metal core need to be rotating in order to generate a magnetic field? Reason I ask is that Venus likely has a sizeable molten core, but no where near a magnetic field, and it’s rotation is much slower than Earth’s. I do however realize that correlation is not causation. The lack of rotation likely due to tidal lock.
Drilling costs would be pretty high, just starting with the rig move. Everyone charges mileage, don'tcha know...
Velveeta.
Not only that but BO the almighty probably would hold up the drilling permit.
Modern scientific thories tend to gravitate toward the largest grants which gore the fewest peers.
Isn’t the moons core where R.Daneel Olivaw lives?
Isn’t the moon’s core where R.Daneel Olivaw lives?
There. fixed it.
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