1. Moon
The
Moon

3. Maria Terrae Montes Appeninus Mare Tranquillitatis Appenine Mountains
Sea of Traquility
Copernicus
Kepler
Mare Crisium
Sea of Crises
Maria
Terrae
Maria are big flows of basalt – newer rock.
Highlands are older rock.
Tycho
Oceanus Procelarum
Ocean of Storms

4. Important Distances
3 474km km

5. Rotational & Orbital Periods both 27.3 days
Tidal locking as lunar mass not distributed evenly

6. Lunik 3. October 1959. First 17 pictures of the far side of the moon.
First seen by humns from Apollo 8.

7. Which is the dark side of the Moon?
Far side. Fewer seas.

8. Lunar orbiter Programme
% NASA satelites

11. Rilles- lava flows?
Straight or curved

12. Wrinkle Ridges- contraction when lava cools?

14. Why does he need the back pack?
What does this mean for the dust

15. “The dust was so abrasive that it actually wore through three layers of Kevlar material on Jack Schmitt’s boot.”

16. Desert soil and garden soil grains

17. Lunar Regiolith = Moon Dust
Comminution: mechanical breaking of rocks and minerals into smaller particles by meteorite and micrometeorite impact;
Agglutination: welding of mineral and rock fragments together by micrometeorite-impact-produced glass;
Solar wind spallation and implantation: sputtering caused by impacts of ions and high energy particles.
Lunar Regiolith = Moon Dust

19. fire fountaining, whereby volcanic lava is lofted and cools into small glass beads before falling back to the surface. Glass beads evidence of past volcanic activity.

20. Soil from Shorty crater. Taurus- Littgow Valley. Apollo17

21. Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package
Structure of moon interior
Composition of lunar atmosphere
Solar wind
Lunar gravity fluctuation
Micrometeorites
Lunar dust
Properties of sub-surface

22. Possible ways the Moon formed
Co-formation
Capture
Fission
Giant Impact
Oxygen isotope ratios same on Earth and Moon
Lack of volatiles (eg water) on Moon
KREEP rocks in Ocean of Storms

23. Protoplanet Theia strikes earth a glancing blow 4.5 billion years ago
Theia. Glancing Blow.
Originally the Moon was much closer to Earth but it spiralled out as angular momentum transferred as they became tidally locked