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Say cheese! NASA captures stunning images of the far side of the moon These amazing pictures capture the moon's cratered surface in the most intricate detail ever recorded. The images, which were taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have boosted the resolution of images of the far side of the moon over 100 times. Digital elevation and terrain maps based on the new data reveal the heavily cratered and bumpy surface of the moon in all its complexity
But it's hard to see how the moon broke off from the earth and it remained a perfect sphere with hundreds of huge raindrop type pock marks, while the earth is this convoluted, seemingly traumatized molten rock in comparison - and with hardly any visible craters.
Originally posted by nerbot
Sorry don't buy it for one minute. Are we to assume that our moon is artificial because it doesn't look like the planet it orbits around?
What about all the other moons in our solar system? Does each of Saturns moons for example look like Saturn? No.
I think we have to face the fact that human desire to explain absolutely everything (the quest for knowledge) is naturally misleading some of us in desired conclusions rather than just accepting that we just don't know.
If we survive on this ball of dirt long enough then perhaps our ancestors will get nearer to understanding our moon.
I don't care how it was made, I'm just glad to have something that beautiful out there to gaze up at rather than just the stars which are just dots.
Oh La Lune!
Originally posted by spikey
The Moon being a chunk from the Earth has pretty much been disproved now.
The reason the moon simply *cannot* be from the Earth is that lunar rocks are approximately 500,000,000 years *older* than Earth's rocks.
I think it probable, that the moon is either a captured wandering moon (there are many, many 'wandering' moons and planets throughout space, fact), or is the result of a catastrophic collision between Mars (which probably led to Mars becoming a dead world) and another planet or moon.
This is a theory but I think that at least some of these moons have been "picked up" by the gravitational attraction of these giant planets and some are a product of that planet. I also believe that we can differentiate between these two by the nature of these moons' orbits.
Lots of Saturn's moons got "picked up" by Saturn's huge gravitational pull.
This is obviously wrong! don't believe me? well just look up one night and see if the Moon is still there. Perhaps one might say that the Moon is too big, by comparison to the Earth, for Earth to have captured it as it wondered by. I realize that the Moon is slowly drifting away but for now I would call this a stable orbit.
Our moon is too big in comparison to our planet for our planet to keep it in stable orbit by itself
Who disproved this?
The Moon being a chunk from the Earth has pretty much been disproved now.
The reason the moon simply *cannot* be from the Earth is that lunar rocks are approximately 500,000,000 years *older* than Earth's rocks.
Originally posted by spikey
The reason the moon simply *cannot* be from the Earth is that lunar rocks are approximately 500,000,000 years *older* than Earth's rocks.
Originally posted by Xen0m0rpH
reply to post by nerbot
Does it really matter whether the Moon is older or not?
Why is our moon composed almost entirely of heavy carbon elements when mainly our planets core is made of the same minerals. This seems to be the main similarities.
Originally posted by WiseThinker
But it's hard to see how the moon broke off from the earth and it remained a perfect sphere with hundreds of huge raindrop type pock marks, while the earth is this convoluted, seemingly traumatized molten rock in comparison - and with hardly any visible craters.
Tbh im not sure if i buy the whole story, as it makes sense due to the fact that our planet has moving plates that move the crust up and down in various places, whereas the moon does not. Something i did think about reading this post however is; is it just me, or is our moon the only moon that is completely dead? i mean Jupiter moons are either volcanically active, or frozen, whereas our moon is just dead...
Originally posted by DuceizBack
The moon is real.