Scientists Confirmed What Is Inside Our Moon (sciencealert.com) 36
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density similar to that of iron. To figure it out once and for all, [astronomer Arthur Briaud of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in France] and his colleagues collected data from space missions and lunar laser-ranging experiments to compile a profile of various lunar characteristics. These include the degree of its deformation by its gravitational interaction with Earth, the variation in its distance from Earth, and its density.
... they found that the lunar core is very similar to that of Earth â" with an outer fluid layer and a solid inner core. According to their modeling, the outer core has a radius of about 362 kilometers (225 miles), and the inner core has a radius of about 258 kilometers (160 miles). That's about 15 percent of the entire radius of the Moon. The inner core, the team found, also has a density of about 7,822 kilograms per cubic meter. That's very close to the density of iron. [...] The research has been published in Nature.
... they found that the lunar core is very similar to that of Earth â" with an outer fluid layer and a solid inner core. According to their modeling, the outer core has a radius of about 362 kilometers (225 miles), and the inner core has a radius of about 258 kilometers (160 miles). That's about 15 percent of the entire radius of the Moon. The inner core, the team found, also has a density of about 7,822 kilograms per cubic meter. That's very close to the density of iron. [...] The research has been published in Nature.
the Moon is made of cheese (Score:2)
Because the first thing I'm told is the most likely correct thing.
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That is a bizarre comment.
Take your meds, grandpa.
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Cannonball!
Re: the Moon is made of cheese (Score:2)
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You've heard of ironwood surely? Then why not iron cheese?
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I like how the word “conspiracy theory” is just the new word for “believing falsehoods [religions are exempts]”. The composition of the moon is not a “conspiracy”; it is what it is. Alleging that China and the U.S.A. are secretly working together to keep people pacified is a “conspiracy” but this is just the composition of the moon.
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Wensleydale
No! The iron content proves it must be filled with well-aged cheddar!!!
Heretic!
Re: That's what "they" want you to believe! (Score:1)
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In The Ring of Charon, there is a being, for lack of a better word, inside the Moon who's been waiting for who knows how long to be activated. Once activated, it communicates with its "master" through a wormhole to help lay out the destruction of the solar system to create a Dyson sphere.
Re: That's what "they" want you to believe! (Score:3)
Easy way to fix it. Send all the disbelievers to the moon. Leave them there permanently but give them a way to access TikTok so that they can live cover from the scene to other disbelievers.
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>Leave them there permanently but give them a way to access TikTok so that they can live cover from the scene to other disbelievers.
Like Stanley Kubrick did in 1969, but without TikTok. Authenticity for the win.
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That's not the conspiracy [imgflip.com] that they've been hiding.
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
That's some dense cheese. It would probably break my teeth.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
That's some dense cheese. It would probably break my teeth.
That's why it's still there. All the soft moons were already eaten.
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All these moons are yours (Score:1)
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That's what happens if you leave Wensleydale exposed to cosmic rays for billions of years.
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Did it hurt the moon? (Score:2)
It ain't right what they did, opening it up like that.
Dense? (Score:2)
So it's not Gouda, like some people said, but in reality a very dense Gran Padano?
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Yeah, this disappointing.
I was hoping it'd be delicious gooey cheese on the inside - a bit like a Brie perhaps.
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It made me wonder... (Score:1)
Re:It made me wonder... (Score:4)
Moving mass won't induce spin - it might cause it to readjust orientation to the earth. I'm guessing the amount you'd need to move would rival all the earth ever moved on earth if not more.
The amount of energy it would take to start the entire moon spinning is quite literally, astronomical.
In the middle of the "moon" (Score:1)
is the heart of a planet-destroying weapon system.
Re: In the middle of the "moon" (Score:1)
seismometers (Score:1)
i am looking forward to data from future seismometers on moon: https://www.universetoday.com/... [universetoday.com]
the data we have from apollo is really sparse and insufficient. it's a shame that it took us this long.
Does this change the moon origin theory again? (Score:2)
Last I remember the theory was a proto-Earth collided with a proto-planet and two iron cores merged into Earth while the ejected mantle material coalesced into the moon, which (so far) was explained by the Apollo mission's lack of finding volatiles on the moon hence they were burned away in the collision.
An iron-like core of the moon seems to be different then?
Seismographs (Score:2)
what everyone wants to know (Score:2)
What everyone wants to know, though, is what's inside Uranus.