Mind-blown Facts of The Moon

Yung Lin Ma
Storytellings
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6 min readJun 19, 2021

How come is the moon and what is it inside?

If humans want to immigrate to Mars, they should first take the moon to practice. If the moon cannot build a base to live in the words. How can humans guarantee to fly to Mars so far can live?

In the case of mankind has not completely conquered the moon, immigration to Mars is basically impossible.

The origin of the Moon

1. Mother-child hypothesis

The moon is actually a child of the Earth. Originally the moon and the earth are one. For some reason, it became detached from the earth. It started to revolve around the earth.

2. The catch hypothesis

The moon was originally a small planet. When it flew near the Earth. It was attracted to the earth. Then, it revolves around the Earth.

3. The collision hypothesis

Soon after the formation of the Earth. An asteroid smashed the earth into pieces. These fragments start orbiting the Earth. The debris condenses. Finally, it becomes the moon.

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The moon is a satellite of the earth. The size of the moon is super large. The moon is the fifth largest of all the satellites in the solar system. The largest satellite in the solar system is Europa. Its diameter is one 27th of Jupiter.

The second largest satellite is Titan. Its diameter is one 24th of the diameter of Saturn. The moon is one-fourth the diameter of the earth. So the Moon as a satellite of the earth is really large.

The terrible cycle

We all know that the moon only faces the earth on one side, while its other side is always behind us.

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How does the moon ensure that it revolves around the Earth, while the other side is facing the earth? This means that the moon’s rotation and rotation period are exactly the same with the earth. It is called rotation around the Earth, and if the Earth rotates itself and the Moon does not rotate, there is no guarantee that only one side is always facing the earth[1].

The speed of the moon’s rotation is exactly the same as the speed of the Earth’s rotation, so that it is guaranteed that one side of the moon will always face the earth, the earth rotation is one day and the earth revolution is one year. The moon is exactly the same.

In fact, it’s really scary to think about it. Is the moon always watching the earth?

Perfect solar and lunar eclipses

Solar and lunar eclipses may seem reasonable, but what is actually very unreasonable. Why the area of the moon’s obscured sun is exactly the same size. This is because the diameter of the moon and the distance of the moon from the earth are exactly the same as the sun. The moon is just the right distance to completely overlap the shade[2].

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The amazing moon crater

You’ve seen pictures of the moon covered in large and small craters, as if it were a hail of bullets. The moon’s craters are so incredible that no matter how big they are, they are all the same depth of 6 km[3].

The earth’s craters are proportional to their diameter and depth. But the moon’s craters are only 6 km deep, no matter how big the craters are. They are only 6 km deep.

Some of the lunar craters are very large. They have a diameter of 1300 km. It is presumed that a 60 km diameter moon bolt would have hit the moon. If this symphonic crater had hit the Earth. The depth would not be less than 100 km. But on the moon, the depth is still only 6 km.

So it can be inferred that the moon should have a particularly hard shell.

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The interior is empty

When Apollo was planning to go to the Moon, NASA found that the density of the moon’s surface was very high. However, the average density of the Moon was found to be very low, so higher density on the outside means that the density inside is lower[4]. The Apollo project also did one more thing at that time. NASA put a lunar seismometer on the surface of the moon. After 8 years and 10 months of observation, it was found that there were 12,558 moonquakes on the moon. On average, four occurred each day. The largest was a magnitude of 4 on the Richter scale. All lunar tremors are very small wave tremors.

Scientists analyzed the data and were surprised to find that. Moonquakes are completely different from earthquakes. Earthquakes reach their peak in a few seconds, and then disappear after a few minutes.

Moonquakes take more than 10 minutes to reach their peak, and then take several hours to slow down and stop shaking. Hydraulic damping is present in the lunar shock waves. This means that there is water inside the Moon, which is the reason for the hydraulic damping[5].

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Later, after studying more rock specimens on the moon. We found that the rocks on the moon’s surface have a high content of titanium. According to the lunar rock analysis. Scientists estimate that the moon’s rock surface is about 5 km thick. Then there is a 20 km thick layer of metal inside. And the main component of this layer is titanium. Titanium is very little on Earth. So in this discovery, the moon and the earth are very different[6].

The metal layer below is basically empty. Or there is a little water inside. Such an estimate shows that the Moon is a hollow metal ball.

This is completely inconsistent with the laws of natural celestial bodies. Most natural objects have a high density in the center. The outer layers have lower density. The moon has a very dense exterior and a hollow interior. No matter how you look at it, it does not look like a naturally occurring celestial body.

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In summary, the moon is a very large, light, hollow, hard outer shell, second titanium layer shell, full of bullet holes, and is somehow appeared in the sky above the earth. Always looking at the earth. What do you think the moon is?

Many ancient cultures, including the Old Testament, do not have a description of the moon. The sun was in the sky during the day, and the brightest star in the sky at night was Venus, and the moon appeared only after the Flood, which the Old Testament says came from the sky. The moon does not know when it came from. And the moon is close to the earth. From this, a huge gravitational force and tides were created. Now the tides of the earth’s oceans are caused by the moon. So what is the relationship between the arrival of the moon and the ancient flood? Is the moon natural?

References:

[1] https://moon.nasa.gov/inside-and-out/top-moon-questions/

[2] https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/eclipses/en/

[3] https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html

[4] https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html

[5] https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2019/moonquakes/

[6] https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/08/26/4-layers-of-the-earth-made-easy/?sh=f722e9a45d8a

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