Is there oil on the moon?

Answer 1

No. Crude oil was made from the dead bodies of marine animals and plants in an oxygen-less environment. Over millions of years and lots of pressure, oils from the organisms seeped out and collected as crude oil.
Since there is no evidence of life on the moon, there were no plants and animals to make oil out of.

Answer 2

Oil is a product of dead organic bio matter and a lot of time. Since life does not exist on the moon and never has there is no oil on the moon.

Answer 3

No. There can't be oil on the moon. For reasons given by Scott_S.

Unless you mean that other kind discovered by the astronauts, then yes, there is, a large supply of high-potency Lunoil never disturbed by greedy corporations ... yet.

Just like our dinosaurs, peace be upon them, that died and rotted and turned into all the various kinds of synthetic olive whale oil we all use today, powers our modern industry and heats our homes, there were similar creatures living in the lunar seas (mare) called Lunarsaurs. When they died, they turned into Lunoil, which is a very similar hydrocarbon. Except it burns like holy hell.

As you may have seen reported on CNN, FOX, in The New York Times and Washington Post, the first NASA astronauts on the moon used it in an emergency to get back to earth when their own fuel all leaked out from a tiny meteorite puncture.

They sealed the hole, mixed the lunoil with liquid oxygen and lit it with a Bic® Lighter and it made enough fuel to get them well out of the solar system, but they decided to come home instead because they knew they'd be in an awful lot of trouble with their wives if they didn't.

So the astronauts just took a flying leap for mankind, stomped around for a bit to leave some scary footprints ( just to see if they could spook the locals into starting a new religion by the time we landed again to check them out. Hee hee - It worked! Duhhhh! ) And then they got back here as fast as they could and Lunoil made all the difference - and the Bic® Lighter Company made a lot of money after that too.

And that's where Lunoil comes from.

So that means, no - there is no actual oil on the moon for reasons given by Scott_S.

 
 

Answer 4

It is not very likely that petroleum exists on or in the Moon. Many people believe that petroleum is the remains of dead plants and animals, but there is far too much of it for this to be true. Instead, it appears that oil might be created deep inside planets from methane, a chemical that is common in the clouds of dust and gas in space.

However, since the Moon is made from the debris of a collision between a Mars-sized body and the early Earth, any petroleum or natural gas would probably have been lost to space as the particles came together to form the Moon.

Answer 5

We don't really know one way or the other.

If you want to ascribe to the theory that the moon was blown out of the Pacific (some hold that the diameters of each are close enough for this to have happened), and there was life present at the time, then you may well believe that there is oil somewhere on the Moon.

Answer 6

Sammy, that's an interesting thought, but, unfortunately, oil is a "bio-fuel." This means it is derived from living creatures - since there is no evidence of the moon ever having been inhabited with living creatures, I'd have to say no.

Maybe another planet, somewhere out there in the vast universe, perhaps?

Answer 7

No oil has been detected on the Moon.

Answer 8

G'day Sammy,

Thanks for your question.

I assume oil is a reference to petroleum. As there has been no organic material on the moon during its history, it is unlikely that there has been petroleum on the moon. Certainly, none has been located.

Most geologists view crude oil, like coal and natural gas, as the product of compression and heating of ancient organic materials over geological time. According to this theory, oil is formed from the preserved remains of prehistoric zooplankton and algae which have been settled to the sea bottom in large quantities under anoxic conditions. (Terrestrial plants tend to form coal, and very few dinosaurs have been converted into oil.) Over geological time this organic matter, mixed with mud, is buried under heavy layers of sediment. The resulting high levels of heat and pressure cause the remains to metamorphose, first into a waxy material known as kerogen which is found in various oil shales around the world, and then with more heat into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in a process known as catagenesis. Because most hydrocarbons are lighter than rock or water, these sometimes migrate upward through adjacent rock layers until they become trapped beneath impermeable rocks, within porous rocks called reservoirs. Concentration of hydrocarbons in a trap forms an oil field, from which the liquid can be extracted by drilling and pumping.

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 the 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.[6] 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.

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Answer 9

No there is no oil on the moon. The moon is just a piece of cold, solid rock.

Answer 10

No. Oil is the remains of prehistoric plants and animals. There weren't any of those on the moon, so there isn't any oil.

The moon doesn't have much in the way of organics at all.