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Only two and a half years ago, if you had claimed to have seen a flash of light on the surface of the Moon, you would have been quickly catalogued as a lunatic. I guess NASA has a lot of lunatics working for it, as it claims that since 2005, it has observed at least 100 flashes of light being produced on the surface of the Moon.
"They're explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the Moon. A typical blast is about as powerful as a few hundred pounds of TNT and can be photographed easily using a backyard telescope," says Bill Cooke from NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Meteoroids hit the lunar surface at a speed exceeding 48,000 kilometers per second. "At that speed, even a pebble can blast a crater several feet wide. The impact heats up rocks and soil on the lunar surface hot enough to glow like molten lava--hence the flash," said Cooke.
Originally posted by SuperSlovak
Several different structures and anomolies on the lunar surface have been photographed and posted on this site. What are those things? Those towers and spheres? Are they from nasa or from a different planet alltogether?
I just wish they would come down to earth once in a while and say hello!