Volcano found on the Moon’s farside

watts up with that? ^ | July 25, 2011 | News Staff

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Posted on July 25, 2011 by News Staff

Non-mare silicic volcanism on the lunar farside at Compton–Belkovich

Bradley L. Jolliff,Sandra A. Wiseman,Samuel J. Lawrence,Thanh N. Tran,Mark S. Robinson,Hiroyuki Sato,B. Ray Hawke,Frank Scholten,Jürgen Oberst,Harald Hiesinger, Carolyn H. van der Bogert,Benjamin T. Greenhagen,Timothy D. Glotch& David A. Paige Nature Geoscience (2011) doi:10.1038/ngeo1212

Abstract

Non-basaltic volcanism is rare on the Moon. The best known examples occur on the lunar nearside in the compositionally evolved Procellarum KREEP terrane. However, there is an isolated thorium-rich area—the Compton–Belkovich thorium anomaly—on the lunar farside for which the origin is enigmatic.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[dadgum]

Cool. Then, when it is time, we will have lots of Thorium for reactors on the moon. WTF would the EPA do with that???

[Grizzled Bear]

Oh my God, it’s full of stars...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thorium rich...raw material...

[GeronL]

I thought the moon was supposed to be dead. I heard it was also hollow too. How is this possible?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Forget about putting men on Mars...The moon has resources...

[Revolting cat!]

Too bad we’re no closer to landing there than when the landing was faked in a Hollywood studio 40 years ago.

[PROSOUTH]

“Volcano found on the Moon’s farside”

Would that be the Dark Side of the Moon?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Okay. So the moon has a boil on its’ backside. We can’t do anything about it except photograph it (we aren’t going back to the moon thanks to Obama, Holdren and Bolden).

We’ve got a bigger boil on the backside of American society, and its name is Barack Obama. Hope it gets lanced on Nov. 6, 2012. Now that is a problem that we can do something about.

[smokingfrog]

It’s a refueling station for the mothership.

[Calvin Locke]

Would that be the Dark Side of the Moon?

Could be. Depends on where the Moon is in its orbit when you're talking about the volcano.

[WKUHilltopper]

“I heard it was also hollow too. How is this possible?”

Where else would all that green cheese be stored?

[Revolting cat!]

[Revolting cat!]

Moon inhabitants, the Moonies!

[GeronL]

ooooooohhhhhhh.... the mothership!!

[dfwgator]

There is no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact it’s all dark.

[Huskrrrr]

Lunar warming?

[Army Air Corps]

Would that be the Dark Side of the Moon?

[ETL]

Would that be the Dark Side of the Moon?

There is no permanent dark side of the Moon. Only a near side and a far side. The far side gets illuminated by the Sun during the New Moon phase (when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun once per Month).