About of EARTH MOON
The Moon
Outlines some of the theories of how the Earth and Moon split, along with Apollo
expeditions of space journeys to the moon.
The Moon I had the ambition to not only go farther than man had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go
Table of Contents Moon Introduction Lunar Science Additional Resources Apollo Mission Publications Apollo Lunar Surface Journal , The Moon has fascinated mankind throughout the ages
It has also been known for more than a century that the Moon is less dense than the Earth
Although a certain amount of information was ascertained about the Moon before the space age, this new era has revealed many secrets barely imaginable before that time
Current knowledge of the Moon is greater than for any other solar system object except Earth
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step onto the surface of the Moon
They and other moon walkers experienced the effects of no atmosphere
The moon's gravity is one-sixth that of the Earth's; a man who 180 lbf (pound-force) on Earth weighs only 30 lbf on the Moon
(The equivalent metric weight (or force) is the Newton, where 4.45 Newtons equal one pound-force.) The Moon is 384, 403 kilometers (238, 857 miles) distant from the Earth
Earth Introduction
Information on the earth sciences, with a main focus on earth statistics, plate
tectonics, and movies.
-Edgar Mitchell, USA Table of Contents Earth Introduction Earth's Moon Earth Science Internet Resources From the perspective we get on Earth, our planet appears to be big and sturdy with an endless ocean of air
Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight, the OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earth's surface
Hamilton) The crew of Apollo 17 took this photograph of Earth in December 1972 while the spacecraft was traveling between the Earth and the Moon
(Courtesy NASA) The Earth and Moon were imaged by from 2.6 million kilometers while completing the first ever Earth-Moon encounter by a spacecraft capable of returning high resolution digital color image data
From this particular viewpoint the Earth appears to be a water planet! (Courtesy NASA/JPL/Northwestern University) During its flight, the Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Earth and Moon
Separate images of the Earth and Moon were combined to generate this view
The distinct bright ray crater at the bottom of the Moon is the Tycho impact basin
This picture contains same scale and relative color/albedo images of the Earth and Moon
Earth
General information, some statistical data and links.
The other probably have similar structures and compositions with some differences: the has at most a small core; has an extra large core (relative to its diameter); the mantles of and the Moon are much thicker; the Moon and Mercury may not have chemically distinct crusts; Earth may be the only one with distinct inner and outer cores
The interaction of the Earth and the Moon slows the Earth's rotation by about 2 milliseconds per century
Asteroids and have complicated orbital relationships with the Earth; they're not really moons, the term 'companion' is being used
It is somewhat similar to the situation with 's moons and
Distance Radius Mass Satellite (000 km) (km) (kg) --------- -------- ------ ------- 384 1738 7.35e22 More about Earth and the Moon Web www.nineplanets.org more and movies the, very high resolution true color imagery from An as seen from Mars taken by Mars Global Surveyor pictures of (LANL) text and pictures of (LANL) pictures of and Volcanoes (LANL) more about the , an interactive map of the Earth (images and astronaut quotes; by Calvin Hamilton of LANL) , NASA images of Earth resources of the USA USA land use (AVHRR false color) Open Issues Our knowledge of the interior of the Earth is derived almost entirely from highly indirect evidence
The Space Place :: Images of Earth's Moon for the Classroom
NASA Moon images with captions showing different phases, suitable for printing
and classroom display.
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SPACE.com -- More Moons Around Earth? Its Not So Loony
Article describing the asteroid Cruithne, and orbital motions at gravitational
balance points in space that temporarily pull asteroids into Earth orbits.
advertisement More Moons Around Earth? Its Not So Loony By Senior Science Writer posted: 11:42 am ET 29 October 1999 second_moon Earth has a second moon, of sorts, and could have many others, according to three astronomers who did calculations to describe orbital motions at gravitational balance points in space that temporarily pull asteroids into bizarre orbits near our planet
'We found new dynamical channels through which free asteroids become temporarily moons of Earth and stay there from a few thousand years to several tens of thousands of years, ' said Fathi Namouni, one of the researchers, now at Princeton University
'Eventually these same channels provide the moons with escape routes
So the main difference between the moon (weve always known) and the new moons is that the latter are temporary -- they come and go, but they stay for a very long time before they leave.' Astronomers have long known that the solar system is full, relatively speaking, of asteroids
'At specific points in its orbit, it reverses its rate of motion with respect to Earth so it will appear to go back and forth.' Whats in a moon? Co-orbital motions probably describe the orbits of many objects at the Lagrange points, Namouni and his colleagues say, but are these objects moons? A moon typically is defined as an object whose orbit encompasses a planet, say, the Earth, rather than the sun, said Carl Murray, who worked with Namouni and Christou on the research
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Offers deeds for lunar properties.
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Welcome to Earth-Moon-Earth Home Pages.
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SwRI Spring 1999 Technology Today Article
Where did the moon come from? This site explores the answer to that question.
Big Bang, New Moon Theoretical and computational simulations at SwRI could soon explain how the Earth came to have its orbiting neighbor
From this debris our moon coalesced, possibly on a time scale as short as one to 100 years
Robin Canup, a senior research scientist in the Boulder, Colorado, office of the SwRI Instrumentation and Space Research Division, specializes in models relating to the origin of the Earth-moon system, the formation of terrestrial planets, and the origin of planetary ring and satellite systems
Recently, research and computational facilities funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and SwRI's internal research program have been directed toward developing improved models of an impact-triggered formation of the moon and examining the related implications for the likelihood of similar planet-moon systems around other stars
Evolving theories of lunar origin Compared to other moons and their planets, the Earth's moon is unusual in several respects
Recent findings even suggest that the moon's core constitutes only 2-4 percent of its total mass, compared to a terrestrial core with about 30 percent of the Earth's mass
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A Return to the Moon Several Clementine Mission images from the United States Geological Survey.
CLEMENTINE - USGS IMAGES A RETURN TO THE MOON The successfully mapped the Moon with 4 cameras (UVVIS 415-1000nm; NIR 1100-2789 nm; HI-RES 415-750 nm; LWIR 9 microns) over the period February through May 1994
Using the UVVIS and NIR cameras the entire Moon was mapped at a resolution of 125-250 m/pixels
From these new data it will be possible to map the mineralogy (rock types) of the entire Moon, a truly unprecedented feat in the history of planetary exploration
It was formed when a large meteorite (or comet) slammed into the Moon
The smooth dark patches seen in the extreme lower right forground and middle left background are mare plains - similar in composition to the large dark areas (mare flood basalts) that define the features of the 'man in the Moon' visible to a casual observer on the Earth
These navigation cameras were also able to take some spectacular wide angle images of the Moon
In this picture the Moon is seen illuminated solely be light reflected from the Earth - Earthshine! the bright glow on the lunar horizon is caused by light from the solar corona, the sun is just behind the lunar limb
The Moon And Tides
Explains with graphs and pictures how the moon affects oceans. Includes the
differences between lunar, spring, neap, high, and low tides.
Moon Tides How The Moon Affects Ocean Tides..
The word 'tides' is a generic term used to define the alternating rise and fall in sea level with respect to the land, produced by the gravitational attraction of the moon and the sun
To a much smaller extent, tides also occur in large lakes, the atmosphere, and within the solid crust of the earth, acted upon by these same gravitational forces of the moon and sun
What are Lunar Tides Tides are created because the Earth and the moon are attracted to each other, just like magnets are attracted to each other
The moon tries to pull at anything on the Earth to bring it closer
Since the water is always moving, the Earth cannot hold onto it, and the moon is able to pull at it
The gravitational attraction of the moon causes the oceans to bulge out in the direction of the moon
Another bulge occurs on the opposite side, since the Earth is also being pulled toward the moon (and away from the water on the far side)
Ocean levels fluctuate daily as the sun, moon and earth interact
As the moon travels around the earth and as they, together, travel around the sun, the combined gravitational forces cause the world's oceans to rise and fall
Keith's Moon Facts, Moon Phases, Moon Photos & Moon Folklore Page
A collection of facts, phases, folklore and photographs.
--> Special Moon Events Section: From Our Friends at Earth & Sky This Site Can Now Be Translated Into Eight Languages Moon Phases: - Information and animation explaining moon phases
- An interactive view of the moons monthly life cycle
- View the moons current phase (Updated every 4 hours)
- Tons of moon phase info and viewing
- Search for any full moon between 1900 & 2100
- View every moon from 1800 - 2199
- A five year listing of full moon dates
- Full Moons for Solstice & Equinox dates
Moon Facts: - A little info about the moon
- A few lesser known facts about the Moon
- Info on moon halos, dogs and other phenomena
- Enter your earthly weight then see your moon weight
- How the moon affects the ocean tides
- What is that erie glow we see on a crescent moon
- Why does the moon look bigger near the horizon
- Why does the moon look orange
- Hear famous voices and strange signals from the moon
- The size of the moon compared to earth
Moon Events: - Five years of Blue Moon Dates
EARTH-MOON DYNAMICS PAGE
Extracts from five papers studying Earth-Moon dynamics relating to evolution and
gravity topics.
Feature 1 Would we have had evolution without the Moon? The Moon is currently moving away from the Earth at the very slow rate of 3.8 cm per year. It has been moving away from the Earth ever since its formation more than 4 billion years ago. During the first billion years of its existence its contribution to the evolution of the Earth was immeasurable due to the enormous mutual gravitational effect. Excerpt from feature: The recessional rate must have been higher the further back in time we go because to extrapolate back the current 3.8 cm yr -1 recessional rate, the existing mean distance of the Moon of 384, 400 km would need more than the 4.6 billion years for which the Earth is accepted to have been in existence
In fact, if the rate of 3.8 cm yr -1 had been constant over the Earths lifetime, the mean distance of the Moon from Earth currently would be 174, 800 km. If we extrapolate the recessional rate back in time on an exponential basis, using N = N o .e -λt (exponential decay) we obtain a recessional speed of some 10 km yr -1
That is to say the Moons orbit, initially, recessed at this 10 km yr -1 rate and gradually slowed down. On this basis it appears that the Moon has been closer to the Earth throughout most of its lifetime and the further back in time we go, the closer it was. Importantly, however, since the gravitational effect of a body is inversely proportional to (the square of) its distance, the much closer Moon had a greater gravitational pull on the Earth
EARTH MOON ?
From the Earth to the Moon
Illustrated hypertext.
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON by English translation by Lewis Mercier and Eleanor E
King (1873) Original illustrations by Henri de Montaut (1868) The Gun Club President Barbicaneâs Communication Effect of the Presidentâs Communication Reply from the Observatory of Cambridge The Romance of the Moon The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball History of the Cannon The Question of the Powders One Enemy v
Science Tribune - 1998-
Article by Peter Brosche on gaining understanding of changes in the Moon's orbit.
Empirical evidence from observations of solar eclipses made as early as in Antiquity pointed to a secular acceleration of the mean angular motion of the Moon amongst the stars which was first noted by Edmund Halley in 1695
The other half was buried in the work of Isaac Newton who thought that the apparent acceleration of the moon could be due to a change in the earth's rotation
Robert Mayer was the first to link the ideas that the moon acts on the earth and the earth on the moon by introducing the concept of angular momentum transfer in the earth-moon-system
It thus seemed obvious to him to ascribe these inconsistencies to an unexplained peculiarity in the motion of the moon
Half of the peculiarity in the motion of the moon could be interpreted by pure conservative celestial mechanics, the other half remained unexplained
Given that there were two separate lines of thought - the observations relating solely to the moon and Kant's ideas relating solely to the earth - what was needed was a catalyst - not even a theory - to link them
Somebody, somewhere, had to realise that the lunar inequality (apparent acceleration of the moon's motion) might be due not only to the ordinate (the length of the lunar orbit) but also to the abscissa (time)
Earth's Moon: Mining or Tourism?
While there's more interest at NASA for a manned mission to Mars, the private
sector looks at Earth's moon.
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The Flat-out Truth
Article profiling Charles Johnson, the president of the International Flat Earth
Society.
The Flat-out Truth: Earth Orbits? Moon Landings? A Fraud! Says This Prophet The idea of a spinning globe is only a conspiracy of error that Moses, Columbus, and FDR all fought..
The sun and moon, in the Johnson version, are only about 32 miles in diameter
The moon shines by its own light and is not eclipsed by the earth
Rather, lunar eclipses are caused by an unseen dark body occasionally passing in front of the moon
landed men on the moon
That, according to Johnson, is nonsense, because the moon landings were faked by Hollywood studios
But he acknowledges that the moon landings were at least partly successful
NASA's Cosmicopia -- Ask Us -- Earth and Moon
Contains an abundance of information about cosmic rays, the Earth's magnetosphere,
the Sun, space weather, and other exciting topics in space science.
Ask Us Earth and Moon Where can I see views of Earth from space? contains over 250, 000 images
Small asteroids and moons can be non-spherical, but after they reach a certain size (when the force of their gravity can 'break' the rock from which they are made), all the bumps are pulled down, and they become more spherical
As long as the maximum mountain size is small compared to the radius of the planetoid (true for objects considerably smaller than the Moon), the body will be spherical
The Moon, being much smaller, has had time to cool and probably has a solid core
How much is the Earth slowing down? Has it always been slowing down? said that the Earth spins like a figure skater, but they can only spin for so long! The Earth's spin is slowing down by about 1.5 - 2 milliseconds per century, and that angular momentum is moving into the Moon's orbit, which is getting larger
Eric Christian For more information on Sun and Moon rise and set times, Moon phases, eclipses, seasons, positions of solar system objects, common astronomical phenomena, calendars and time, and related topics, check out the
Eric Christian Ever since junior high we were taught that it was the Sun's and Moon's gravity which were directly responsible for causing the tides on Earth
A Created Solar System
Earth-Moon cycles and their relationship to creation, slowing spin of the earth,
created time.
A Quest for Creation Answers Is there any indication of mindful reason (or purpose) for the current spin-orbital configuration of the Earth and Moon? _ LINKS TO ARTICLES _ LINKS TO BOOKS _ LINKS TO OTHER Note that the times of the several ancient eclipses, equinoxes, and Moon phases that are currently referenced can be converted to/from corresponding Julian day numbers
Design of Time T he time stream when subdivided by the action of the Earth-Moon can be recognized to contain specific
In essence, the spin of the Earth does appear to function or work in quite perfect interface both with the annual transit of the Sun and also with the synodic orbit of the Moon
The phases of the Moon do likewise appear to return in interface with each of the passing seasons--on the average
F or comprehensive information concerning what appears to be interrelatedness between Earth, Moon, and Sun cycles, refer to the literature linked from the opposite column
We do hope that our current research of the Earth-Moon system will be of great benefit in furthering your study of a created solar system
ORRERY: Moon - Earth's Only Natural Satellite
General information about the satellite, the eclipses and the phases, presented
in a popular language.
Moon - Earth's Natural Satellite | Moon | The Moon is the 's sole companion, orbiting at an average distance of 384, 400km
The Moon's equatorial diameter measures 3, 476km making it less than one third the diameter of the
Eclipses As the orbital plane of the Moon lies within 5° of the apparent orbit of the as seen from, occasionally their positions in the sky coincide, giving rise to a solar eclipse
The photo above shows the shadow cast by the moon - around 100 km across it moves at over mach 2! Solar Eclipses At other times the Moon's orbit takes it into the shadow cast by the into space, causing a lunar eclipse
Unlike solar eclipses, Lunar eclipses are readily observed from large areas of the 's surface, due to the greater extent of the 's shadow than that of the Moon's
Lunar Eclipses Map of the Moon Philip's do a large map of the Earth-facing side of the Moon with over 500 named features plus the landing sites of spacecraft
Buying Land on the Moon Some companies are pretending to sell land on the moon to unsuspecting individuals, and claim the sales are legal
ORRERY HAND CRAFTED BY BRIAN GREIG
Features detailed photographs and descriptions of examples made for teaching and
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