NASA Research Provides New Details On Mystery of How the Moon Got ‘Inked’

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[BenLurkin]

Lunar swirls can be tens of miles across and appear in groups or just as an isolated feature.

Previous observations yielded two significant clues about their formation:

First, they appear where ancient bits of magnetic field are embedded in the lunar crust (although not every “fossil” magnetic field on the moon has a lunar swirl).

Second, the bright areas in the swirls appear to be less weathered than their surroundings.

The space environment is harsh; many things can cause material exposed to space to change chemically and darken over time, including impacts from microscopic meteorites and the effects of the solar wind – a million-mile-per-hour stream of electrically conducting gas blown from the surface of the sun.

Those clues led to three prominent theories about how the swirls formed. The swirls and the magnetic fields could both have formed from plumes of material ejected by comet impacts.

Alternatively, perhaps when fine dust particles get lofted by micrometeorite impacts, an existing magnetic field over the swirls sorts them according to their susceptibility to magnetism, forming light and dark patterns with different compositions.

Finally, since particles in the solar wind (electrons and ions) are electrically charged, they respond to magnetic forces. Perhaps the magnetic field shields the surface from weathering by the solar wind.

In the new research, teams of scientists created computer models that provide new insights into how the magnetic shield hypothesis could work.

[ichabod1]

What we REALLY want to know is why is the moon hollow.

[PIF]

Or they are just the by-products of mining operations ...

[max americana]

so it wasn’t the Decepticons?

[BenLurkin]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[MUDDOG]

ancient bits of magnetic field are embedded in the lunar crust

They looked for magnetic monopoles in moon rocks.

Didn't find any.

[PIF]

No not the cartoon guys rather the usual lot of miners from around the solar system ...

[Telepathic Intruder]

Just a giant version of these:

[Talisker]

What we REALLY want to know is why is the moon hollow.

Because that's how it was made.

[Swordmaker]

Lunar Lunalogists are puzzled about what caused numerous lunar spiral features on the moon's surface. . . however, Electric Universe cosmologists are not. . . especially that many are double spirals or swirls totally expected under the Electric Universe hypothesis from Birkeland Currents and are seen everywhere in the Electric Universe. They are scalable from the microcosm to the macrocosm and can be seen even in the shape of spiral galaxies. — PING!

If you want on or off the Electric Universe Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Moon hollow? All these years I thought the earth was hollow! It used to be advertised in all the men’s magazines back in the 1960s!

[ichabod1]

You could have something there! The “moon” which is really a spacecraft parked in permanent orbit right in front of our eyes lol, could definitely have been blown!!!!!

[Cvengr]

Swiss Cheese has holes in it, therefore partially hollow.

The moon has been posited to be made from cheese.

Therefore, if the moon is partially hollow, it is made from Swiss Cheese.

[MUDDOG]

the earth was hollow

Where the Deros live.

[Talisker]

You could have something there! The “moon” which is really a spacecraft parked in permanent orbit right in front of our eyes lol, could definitely have been blown!!!!!

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the ping.

[thoughtomator]

public education

[ichabod1]

There, I said it. SOMEBODY had too!

[misanthrope]

20 posts and only ONE SINGLE POST that offers any insight in to the actual topic at hand.

I've been studying Electric Universe Theory for about four years now. HIGHLY RECCOMMEND everyone at least check it out. Explains a lot very neatly without a wad of nonsensical theory-patches (dark energy, dark matter, black holes, etc). Thanks Swordmaker.