NASA's prolific Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) found rich evidence of iron and titanium oxides under the surface of the moon, which may show a close connection with Earth's early history.
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Scientists have been debating how the moon formed for decades. The leading theory suggests that a Mars-size world collided with Earth billions of years ago . The colliding world shattered upon impact and blasted part of the proto-Earth's surface into space. The debris surrounded Earth with a ring; the moon we see today is the result of that ring slowly collapsing under its own gravity.
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Surprising Find at the Bottom of Moon's Craters Provides New Insights to Its Origin
According to the researchers, the fine dust at the bottom of the Moon’s craters is actually ejected materials forced up from below the Moon’s surface during meteor impacts. When comparing the metal content at the bottom of larger and deeper craters to that of the smaller and shallower ones, the team found higher metal concentrations in the deeper craters.
What does a change in recorded metal presence in the subsurface have to do with our understanding of the Moon? The traditional hypothesis is that approximately 4.5 billion years ago there was a collision between Earth and a Mars-sized proto-planet (named Theia). Most scientists believe that that collision shot a large portion of Earth’s metal-poor upper crust into orbit, eventually forming the Moon.
The Next Full Moon Is the Buck Moon – Here's Everything You Need to Know
The next full Moon is called the Buck Moon, Thunder Moon, Hay Moon, Mead Moon, Rose Moon, Guru Moon, and Dharma Day. There also will be a partial penumbral lunar eclipse.
The next full Moon will be just after midnight on Sunday morning, July 5, 2020, appearing opposite the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 12:44 a.m. EDT. The Moon will be close enough to opposite the Sun that its northern edge will pass through the partial shadow of the Earth — called a partial penumbral eclipse.
A Hunt for Ice on the Moon Ends in Surprise: What the Moon's Really Made of
This image based on data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft shows the face of the Moon we see from Earth. The more we learn about our nearest neighbor, the more we begin to understand the Moon as a dynamic place with useful resources that could one day even support human presence. Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University
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What started out as a hunt for ice lurking in polar lunar craters turned into an unexpected finding that could help clear some muddy history about the Moon’s formation.
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Did you see the full moon this morning? We’ve all heard the theories of kids acting a little stranger and more babies being born during a full moon. But do those theories hold up in a study? I dug into the research to find out.
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Today is going to be quiet here locally, but it will be pretty hot and humid. We have high pressure just offshore with a stationary front to our north and south.
We'll be partly cloudy with only some isolated (pop-up) showers and storm late this afternoon. Even those should be mostly inland. High temps are going to be near 90 with low-mid 90s inland and some upper 80s right near the shore. The heat index will be in the mid-upper 90s. We'll have a light south wind. It's possible that a sea breeze may develop this afternoon. This is getting tougher to form lately as the bay temperatures are now in the upper 70s to low 80s.
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Self-care has taken on new meaning in the age of pandemic and extreme social upheaval. The term is now firmly lodged in millennial vocabulary, but it many ways it's become a commodified buzz word, tied to products or services that may only provide fleeting happiness.
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There's more metal on the moon than we thought https://t.co/lyGI1w0MrS https://t.co/u8TCduiPF2 SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Mon Jul 06 12:41:03 +0000 2020
NASA's spacecraft finds more metal than expected on the Moon https://t.co/0H2nDWT1va SputnikInt Mon Jul 06 14:31:00 +0000 2020
How much metal is on the Moon? @NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has found evidence that increased levels of ir… https://t.co/OurQvjKVLE NASA_Marshall (from Huntsville, Alabama USA) Thu Jul 02 20:15:03 +0000 2020
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