The Moon has been an element of scientific research, of poetry, of songs, of films; in short, it is one of the planets to which the human being looks with more curiosity wanting to reveal his mysteries. Where are we at? The first man who set foot on the moon was Neil Armstrong in 1969 and, according to Trump, we will return to the satellite by 2024. What do we know about the moon? Many, many things, some of which are truly incredible.
There is a replica of the 7 meter moon that is traveling around the world
The artist Luke Jerram has created several 7-meter-high replicas of the Moon, all illuminated, which are traveling around the world as a "Museum of the Moon". This project was installed in public from China to Finland, from the United Arab Emirates to Australia and is accompanied by music by Dan Jones. To create this sculpture, the British artist used a giant image of the moon created by NASA in 2010, 21 meters large. Every inch of Luke Jerram's replica is 5 km of the true lunar surface. The Moon represents mood and romance. This sculpture shows us our satellite as we have never seen it and makes us dream of flying
Live on the moon
the Japanese space agency Jaxa has discovered that on the Moon there is a tunnel 50 km long and 1000 meters high that would have formed following a flow of volcanic lava. It is a place large enough to host an entire city keeping it away from meteorites, cosmic rays, the crazy lunar temperature range (during the day it reaches 130 ° and at night it can go down to -170 °). In essence, this tunnel would be the perfect place to survive thanks to far more hospitable conditions than those offered by the lunar surface.
On the Moon there are objects from Earth
There are certainly no people on the moon, but it is full of objects! On the surface of the planet there is in fact a lot of material that arrived from Earth. Probes, plates, flags, vehicles, even personal items. We left a lot of stuff up there, including two golf balls thrown by Alan Shepard during the Apollo 14 mission. Initially, in addition to the US flag, American astronauts also left a coat of arms on the moon in honor of the crew who died in the accident of the Apollo 1. There is also a plaque that reads: “At this point the men of the planet Earth have set foot for the first time on the Moon. July 1969 a. C. We come in peace for all humanity ". In all, since the first landing on the moon, humans have left 180 kg of material of all kinds.
The Moon presents the "lunamoti" similar to earthquakes
It is claimed that strong "lunamoti" occur on the Moon caused by small deformations of the entire planet called "solid tides", by vibrations due to the impact of meteorites and by thermal earthquakes "caused by the expansion of the icy crust when illuminated by the sun morning after two weeks of extremely freezing lunar night ”. In addition, surface earthquakes, earthquakes with unknown causes that occur only 20 or 30 kilometers below the surface, can last up to 10 minutes. If they occur on Earth, the vibrations of similar earthquakes could move very heavy furniture (on Earth, water prevents earthquakes from lasting more than a few minutes).
The moon has dark spots called "maria" (with the emphasis on the first 'a')
"Maria" in Latin means "seas", since ancient astronomers believed that dark areas were masses of lunar water. In reality, these spots were once lava lakes that solidified to form basalt, a dark-colored rock.
