Earth’s Moon, as imaged by the Galileo mission. (Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS)
Earth’s Moon, as imaged by the Galileo mission. (Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS)
Europlanet?
Does this mean that the French are going to claim the moon?
OK. ‘Splain this to me, a total NOVICE on this space/universe/star stuff...
Is the Moon a chunk of Earth that went flying off at one point during The Big Bang or something?
And how come all of our planets are so d@mn ROUND? Why are they all perfectly spherical? Is that because of our Sun’s gravitational pull?
(Bet you didn’t know a hayseed like me could even SPELL ‘spherical,’ LOL!)
And does the ‘Sun’ have a name? Does the ‘Moon’ have a name?
Inquiring minds need to know! :)
Good old moon — quite the character with its blotches and craters. Too bad we don’t have video of the event that caused the big crater on its bottom side. That must have been incredible. /off topic
The Earth-like water would have been deposited on the moon from materials ejected in this event (geologists made a big mistake about 60 years ago - new data makes obsolete a fundamental assumption, in this case continental drift):
http://www.threeimpacts-twoevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Geologic-Sensemaking-Simultaneous-Impacts-10May2013.pdf
OK OK We stopped at the moon for a bathroom break on a trip to Venus. I told John not to drink that Big Gulp before we left.
