THE
MOON
A look to our nearest neighbor in spacE
Jehu H. Pablo
what is a moon ?
an object that
orbits a planet
or something
that is not the
Sun
what is the Moon ?
⋆ Earth’s only Natural
Satellite
⋆ one of more than
160 moons in our
solar system
The Moon by the numbers
the moon The moon's surface area
gravity is 1.62 is about 14.6 million
m/s2 square miles (38 million
square kilometers), which
is less than the total
surface area of the
continent of Asia
384,000 km (240,000
miles) from the earth
The moon Mass is
7.342×1022 kg
which 1/81 of earths
3468 km (2400 miles) in mass
Diameter 1/4 the size of the
earth
The Moon by the numbers
The moon will take
27.32 days to orbit
around the earth
Lunar Apogee: Lunar Perigree:
406,700 km 356,500 km
(252,700 mi) (221,500 mi)
"The moon
keeps the same
face towards the
earth as the
moon rotates
exactly once
every time it
Layers Of The
Moon
the Layers of the moon
⋆ Core
-Inner Core (Solid)
-Outer Core (Liquid)
⋆ Mantle
-Athenosphere
-Rigid Lithosphere
Crust
The Lunar Surface
whats it like to be at the
moon surface
When
Sky in
The sunlight
surface
the moon hits
of the
the
Moon moon's
always surface,
isappears
buried dark,
the
eventemperature
under ona the can
fine-grained
bright
reach
soil
sideof
not260
tiny,degrees
shattered
like the
Fahrenheit
rock fragments
earth’s (127
sky that
degrees
appears Celsius).
compare blue.
to earth
When the sun
dirt, lunar dirtgoes
is
down,
very drytemperatures
are
can dip to minus
chemically reduced, 280
the moon appearance
Highlands
- Brighter Region
-Heavily cratered
Maria
- Darker Region
-Smoother
The Lunar Highlands
⋆ comprises of countless
overlapping creaters
⋆ it is 83 % is the moon
crust
⋆ made of relatively low-
density rock
The moon Craters
⋆ can be up to 2500 km
across
⋆ most formed by meteorite
impact on the moon
⋆ Named for scholar ,
scientists, artists and
explorer, Tycho for
example
The Lunar Maria
⋆ flat, dark plain of lower
elevation on the Moon
⋆ covers 16% of lunar surfaces
⋆ consist mostly of dark-
colored basalt (volcanic
lava) laid down in volcanic
eruptions billions of years
ago
⋆ they are younger than the
highlands
The Lunar features
Rilles lava tube mountains
long, narrow depressions a tunnel that formed due
in the surface of the to a top of the lava flow ranges
Moon that resemble dry cooling down. elevated portion of the
river beds . known to be moon formed at the
the sites of ancient lava edged of giant impacts
flow
What Can You Observed?
Moon Crustal Anomaly
The Far Side of the
Moon was Vastly
Different Than the
Near Side as their are
very less Maria, more
Crater and It is More
thicker than the other
side
the Origin of the
Moon
Giant Impact Hypothesis
50 million years ago, a
mars size planet (Theia)
having a grazing impact
to the earth, blasting
huge material from both
planets into space. and
some of the material
coelesced into the moon
⋆ the moon form 20,000 km away,
however the collision completed
melted the earth.
⋆ tidal forces rapidly synchronize the
moon spin and orbital perion ,so
only one face only pinted toward
earth
⋆ as earth is so hot, which seriously
heated the near side of the moon
while the far side is so much cooler,
making the material on the near
side would be vaporized and
Late Heavy Bombardment
⋆ a period of intense collision
with comets from the outer
solar system, which left scars
in all the inner world
including the moon creating
most of the highland craters
⋆ while other carved gigantic
crater on the moon where
lava bubble up through the
cracks creating the Maria
Fission Theory
at one point of the earth
history, the earth might
be spinning so fact that
part of the earth split
into space but was kept
tethered due to earths
gravity which later
formed the moon
Capture Theory
The Moon was formed
far away from the moon
but as it traveling past
the earth, it was captured
by our planets gravity
Co-Accretion Theory
The Moon and the earth
was formed together
while orbiting a black
hole
