What is the moon's surface made of?

Question

What is the moon's surface made of? is it mud like that which is found on earth, or different?

Answer 1

It is made out of rocks and gravel just like the ones found on earth. There isn't any water on the moon so there would be no mud.

Answer 2

The Moon lunar surface is pretty much ashen rock, with a deep layer of "dust" residue from millions of years being a meteor bulls-eye.

Once NASA reported to the politicians there were no diamonds.....or cheese.....on the moon, Washington pretty much pulled the plug on any further manned Moon missions.

Now we look to putting humans on Mars....and we need the perfect training proving ground for such endeavors. Hmmmm....I wonder where such a place could be........??????

Answer 3

No the soil is like Granite crushed so hard that is a smooth dust, It also has many different types of soil and Mineral composite on the Backside where is cratered by Incoming sattelites. I think they said on the moon there is only a couple of inches of dust untill you reach the Hard surface of Moon.

Answer 4

There's no liquid water on the moon so it's not mud, it's moslty space dust and rock.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

A common moon rock is anorthosite, which is a pure calcium plagioclase feldspar.

Answer 7

Neil Armstrong said it was a fine power. Like a fine grain sand.

Answer 8

Ultramafic rocks, such as olivines and peroxenes, which are similar to mantle rocks or basaltic oceanic rocks.

Answer 9

Swiss cheese!

Answer 10

It looked dust-like when all that coverage was going on. Not muddy at all.