Could lightning have been the cause of the Moon's craters?

Question

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Of all the craters on the Moon, Tycho in the southern hemisphere stands out the most. This is because the rays extending out from the crater reach nearly a quarter of the way around the moon in straight lines. The official explanation is that this is ejected material, but close inspection reveals that that can not be the case.

Look just left of the arrow that points to Tycho, extending out from the bottom left hand side are two straight lines that do not point to the center of the crater but a point on the crater rim.

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The crater floor of Tycho is melted smooth. The raised mound in the middle rises about 2 km above the surrounding surface, said to have been the rebound of the material. Planet scientists propose that this was caused by material melted from the impact pooling inside the crater.

But impact always shock and eject the material they slam into, not hold it in place to create a pool of lava. What could of melted this stuff in place? The lightning bolt creating the crater.

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Those are little electric craters created in a lab. A lot of them have little raised bumps in the middle.

Lightning on a golf course:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/060309lightning.jpg

and on the Moon:
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There is no atmosphere on the Moon, so there is very little resistence on the surface. The electron pathways can move in much straighter lines between such long distances. That is why some of them even appear to be moving towards the crater rim.

Electric scars on Venus:
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Dude, you think all lightning is created equal? Back in the day our ancient ancestors talked about lightning storms so powerful it look like the sky was full of arrows. The lightning bolt is the chief weapon of the Gods. Look at what happened to Mars: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhTYb0Zp.MVeKue_1iyPaabsy6IX?qid=20060619194732AAwm9Mf

The place got zapped!

Oh wait, you still think clouds are what create lightning. *sigh* The Earth has a natural electric field, so do other planets but they are of a different charge. When two large bodies of a different charge pass close to each other they will discharge with massive lightning storms. This is why we have a magnetic field. The entire relationship is called "electromagnetics" as in electricity.

Oh really, lightning needs an atmosphere to occur?

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This picture demonstrates the various electric phenomena we know of and at what elevations they occur. You can see this energy goes up, up and awaaaay. Elves occur at precisely the same altitude as our ionosphere, and are more than likely glowing ripples across it. After that it's all space, and I'm sure the energy didn't stop there.

These look surprisingly like Auroras, which occur at our magnetic poles every time the solar "wind" (or electric current) comes flowing in. You don't need an atmosphere to separate a charge. Sh*t flying around in space already has the charge separated.

Answer 1

No.

The electric charge that causes lightning on the Earth, Jupiter and Saturn is built up in the atmosphere from the solar radiation that hits the atmosphere.

Though the solar particles have an electric charge, without a dense atmosphere, acting as a capacitor to allow the building up of large charges, you don't get lightning bolts. A lightening bolt requires a million volts per meter.

Individual solar particles interact with other particles but the discharge is of the magnitude of a few electrons worth of charge. The elves and aurora are caused by solar particles striking the upper atmosphere. But the eleves and aurora are not lightning bolts.

Without a dense enough atmosphere there can be no lightning.

The moon does have a tenuous atmosphere but it is not dense enough to act as a capacitor.

Tycho crater was formed from more than one meteorite impact. There was the main impact and then smaller impacts on the big scar.

The youngest crater is Giordano Bruno and you can see that it has not been overlaid with other impacts.

Answer 2

"Impact like" structures can be created in a variety of ways. That is why here on Earth scientists actually have to go drill the spot of interest to look for things such as shocked quartz to determine if a structure is really an impact crater.

That being said, I'm not aware of any phenomena on the moon that would cause a lightning strike capable of creating such a crater.

Answer 3

Sorry, but to start with and a very long time ago, everything was in flames.... then BIG BANG.... then got farther away, then cooled off....

Now what makes everyone think that all craters are created by IMPACTS?? They are NOT.... but simply the hot matter going cold and taking shape....

When the temperature levels drop very fast, craters are created......

This is serious.... , but idf you don"t believe me, try taking a half baked cake of the oven.... You will create your own crater.....
If you try it several times, none of he crater will ever have the same aspect.....

Sorry for the scientists driven by their theory of impacts.... It is a FALSE theory......

Good luck....

Answer 4

no becoz the moon hasnt enviroment and clouds
in the past it may have but thre lightning cant create such a big craters

Answer 5

there isnt lightning in space but in the edge of the earth there is lightning which i suppose is kinda in space and can only be seen from space but in terms of lightning in what we humans decricbe occurs in weather systems in earth so i guess theres not lightning in space

Answer 6

There is no lightning on the moon since there is no atmosphere.

Answer 7

Blah blah blah... some old stuff, feel good! No ones listening anymore! Change the record!

Answer 8

Other asteroids and those Kline-ons had something to do with it..
Didn't you ever watch Star Trek.?

Answer 9

It was meteroites that hit the moon not lightning.

Answer 10

no