What is really on the moon?

Answer 1

ricotta cheese...its so yummy

Answer 2

The surface of the Moon has two hemispheres with rather asymmetric properties; as a consequence the nature of the Lunar surface that we can see from the Earth is substantially different from the surface that is always hidden from the EarthThe face of the Moon turned toward us is termed the near side (image at right). It is divided into light areas called the Lunar Highlands and darker areas called Maria (literally, "seas"; the singular is Mare). The Maria are lower in altitude than the Highlands, but there is no water on the Moon so they are not literally seas (Recent evidence from the Clementine spacecraft suggests that there may be some water on the Moon, contrary to previous assumptions). The dark material filling the Maria is actually dark, solidified lava from earlier periods of Lunar volcanism. Both the Maria and the Highlands exhibit large craters that are the result of meteor impacts. There are many more such impact craters in the Highlands

Answer 3

I was watching NASA TV the other day about the 1969 moon landing.All there is is dust,craters and rocks and probably footsteps of the first guys who landed there,there wasn`t any faces,no green cheese or man on the moon.

Answer 4

Rocks, dust, a couple of used moon buggies, some golfballs, a couple american flags, the bottom half of several lunar modules and assorted junk left by astronauts. Not very exciting, but, like life, the point of the thing is the journey, not the destination.

Answer 5

The moon is basically a big ball of rock with an equatorial radius of 1.734 x 103 km and a mass of 73,483,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg.

The moon has no atmosphere and is covered entirely by craters due to impact from comets and other bodies (over 30,000 craters can be seen only by telescope). So its basically a rock with a surface about the same size as Australia orbeting the earth

More than 4.5 billion years ago, the surface of the Moon was a liquid magma ocean. Scientists think that one component of lunar rocks, called KREEP (potassium, rare earth elements, and phosphorus), represents the last chemical remnant of that magma ocean. KREEP is actually a composite of what scientists term "incompatible elements": those that cannot fit into a crystal structure and thus were left behind, floating to the surface of the magma. For researchers, KREEP is a convenient tracer, useful for reporting the story of the volcanic history of the lunar crust and chronicling the frequency of impacts by comets and other celestial bodies.

The lunar crust is composed of a variety of primary elements, including uranium, thorium, potassium, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, titanium, calcium, aluminium and hydrogen, as determined by spectroscopy.

A complete global mapping of the Moon for the abundance of these elements has never been performed. However, some spacecraft have done so for portions of the Moon; Galileo did so when it flew by the Moon in 1992. The overall composition of the Moon is believed to be similar to that of the upper parts of the Earth other than a depletion of volatile elements and of iron.

When observed with earth based telescopes, the moon can be seen to have some 30,000 craters having a diameter of at least 1 km, but close up observation from lunar orbit reveals a multitude of ever smaller craters. Most are hundreds of millions or billions of years old; the lack of atmosphere, weather and recent geological processes ensures that most of them remain permanently preserved. In the lunar terrae, it is indeed impossible to add a crater of any size without obliterating another; this is termed saturation.

The largest crater on the Moon, and indeed the largest known crater within the solar system, forms the South Pole-Aitken basin. This crater is located on the far side, near the South Pole, and is some 2,240 kilometres in diameter, and 13 kilometres in depth.

The dark and relatively featureless lunar plains are called maria, Latin for seas, since they were believed by ancient astronomers to be water-filled seas. They are actually vast ancient basaltic lava flows that filled the basins of large impact craters. The lighter-colored highlands are called terrae. Maria are found almost exclusively on the Lunar nearside, with the Lunar farside having only a few scattered patches.

Blanketed atop the Moon's crust is a dusty outer rock layer called regolith, the result of rocks shattered by billions of years of impacts. Both the crust and regolith are unevenly distributed over the entire Moon. The crust ranges from 60 kilometres (38 mi) thick on the near side to 100 kilometres (63 mi) on the far side, and the regolith varies from 3 to 5 metres (10 to 16 ft) deep in the maria to 10 to 20 metres (33 to 66 ft) deep in the highlands.

In 2004, a team led by Dr. Ben Bussey of Johns Hopkins University using images taken by the Clementine mission determined that four mountainous regions on the rim of the 73-km-wide Peary crater at the Moon's north pole appeared to remain illuminated for the entire Lunar day. These unnamed "mountains of eternal light" are possible due to the Moon's extremely small axial tilt, which also gives rise to permanent shadow at the bottoms of many polar craters. No similar regions of eternal light exist at the less mountainous south pole, although the rim of Shackleton crater is illuminated for 80% of the lunar day. Clementine's images were taken during the northern Lunar hemisphere's summer season, and it remains unknown whether these four mountains are shaded at any point during their local winter season.

Dating of the lunar impact events through 40Ar/39Ar isotop analysis of glass spherules, created during the impacts, showed a high impact number in early lunar history and in the last 400 mio years.

Answer 6

moon dust

Answer 7

Craters, rocks, and a lot of dust. One sides is hot, one side is cold. No life, no water, no cheese.

Answer 8

Cream cheese.

Answer 9

I believe that golf ball is still up there, too.

Answer 10

rock

Answer 11

USA's flag