What can we still learn about the moon?

learned many things about the Moon. During those 300 years, we learned how to determine its size, shape, and weight, how to measure the temperature of the surface, to estimate the electrical properties from radar waves bounced off the Moon, and to do many others without leaving the planet Earth.

What are some things we don’t know about the moon?

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• The Moon is the Earth’s tiny, constant companion.
• We only see one side of the Moon all of the time.
• The dark areas on the Moon are actually cooled lava.
• The coldest measured surface in our solar system is on the Moon.
• NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter just passed its 50,000th orbit around the Moon.

What are some unanswered questions about the moon?

3 Unanswered Questions About Our Moon

• The Origin. We still don’t know for sure where the moon comes from.
• The Dark Side. Even taking into account recent satellite missions, most of the best lunar data comes from Apollo crews and Russian Luna landers.
• The Water.

Does the moon protect the Earth?

Very little. The the moon covers a very small percentage of the sky, and thus cannot shield the earth from the impact of all but a small percentage of meteors.

How much of the moon can we see from Earth?

59\%
Does this mean we can only see 50\% of the moon’s surface from Earth? No. Over time, it’s possible to see as much as 59\% of the moon’s surface, due to a combination of motions – in particular, a slight north-south rocking and east-west wobbling of the moon – known as lunar libration.

What are 3 interesting facts about the Moon?

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• The Moon’s surface is actually dark.
• The Sun and the Moon are not the same size.
• The Moon is drifting away from the Earth.
• The Moon was made when a rock smashed into Earth.
• The Moon makes the Earth move as well as the tides.
• The Moon has quakes too.
• There is water on the Moon!

How old is the moon?

4.53 billion years
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Scientists looked to the moon’s mineral composition to estimate that the moon is around 4.425 billion years old, or 85 million years younger than what previous studies had proven.

How much do we know about the moon?

What do we know about the Moon? Today, we know that the Moon is covered by craters as well as dust and debris from comets, asteroids and meteoroid impacts. We know that the Moon’s dark areas, called maria – which is Latin for seas – are not actually seas.

How many men have been to the moon?

12 men
The first crewed lunar landing in 1969 was a historic triumph for the USA and humankind. Including the Apollo 11 mission, 12 men have walked on the Moon.

How many things have been found on the Moon?

All told, the group identified an eclectic list of 106 objects, plus the footprints marking Armstrong and Aldrin’s steps. The largest items, at the Apollo 11 site and its successors, were at the scientific and engineering heart of the program.

How much junk has been left on the Moon?

Things Left on the Moon: Scientists estimate that mankind has left over 413,000-lbs of material on the moon. It’s not all just Moon junk though, some are still functioning, and some is there for sentimentality’s sake.

Did an astronaut leave a photo of his family on the Moon?

NASA astronaut Charlie Duke snapped a picture of a signed photograph he left on the moon’s surface of his family. (Image credit: NASA) Another astronaut was inspired to leave his trace in a very different way: during Apollo 16, Charlie Duke left a signed photograph of his family tucked in a plastic sleeve on the moon’s surface.

What can we learn from the bags left on the Moon?

Revisiting the bags after their long years on the moon’s surface could also help scientists understand how the harsh lunar environment would affect a human body, she said, turning them into after-the-fact experiments of a sort.