Re: 2 basic questions about the Moon

From: starlord (starlord_at_despammed.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:48:01 -0500

I've read some good articles about the forming of our moon, it is not
uniform in make up, the otherside is made up of lighter rock than the earth
facing side. The 'seas' where made from when large impacts happened and it
remelted the vast areas which flooded the area. No Volcanos where ever on
the moon.

As for the flag of Apollo 11, they placed it to close to the lem's base and
the exhust from the command section lifting off blew it over. Later missions
which placed flags planted them away from the lem's base so that would not
happen again. 

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<afe0108@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, I can't seem to find the answers to 2 basic questions
> about the Moon.  Is there an astronaut or someone like that who
> could help me out?
>
> (1) Why are the mare almost all on the side facing Earth?  I've
> read they are perhaps ancient lava flows (but not from a volcano
> I guess because there doesn't seem to be any volcano in the
> middle of them?)  And it appears from the Apollo photos they are
> brownish in direct sunlight if you are standing in the middle of
> them?  And what color would the highlands be, grey?  And (sorry
> this is actually several questions) what is the surface like
> walking on the Moon, it is hard and crusty or rather like sand?
> Is the latter why it was so difficult to plant the American flag
> and why it fell over?
>
> (2) (Shorter question) If I straighten out the Earth's
> revolution around the Sun so it's a straight line, what curve is
> the Moon's motion along that line most similar to, perhaps a
> sine wave?  I know it's actually an incredibly complicated curve
> but that's the general shape of it, i.e. there are no little
> loops or sudden changes of direction?
>
> Thanks!
>
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