2006-09-29 19:20:47 · 19 answers · asked by amby 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
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2006-09-29 19:28:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The moon is made up of various kinds of rocks. These rocks are fairly similar to the rocks on earth. But on earth, we have wind and rain that help wear the rocks down into sand and dirt. There is no air or wind on the moon, so the rocks don't get worn down as they do on the earth.
There are also many interesting features such as craters, mountain ranges, and lava plains. The interior of the Moon is made up of different layers of rock, some solid and some molten like lava.
The surface of the moon has about two inches of dust. Much of this dust has fallen to the moon from the spaces between the planets over the last several billions years. It probably feels pretty soft. You can see this in some pictures taken by the astronauts of their footprints on the moon.
2006-09-30 02:22:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Rocks from the lunar maria were formed when molten rock solidified between 3,160,000,000 and 3,960,000,000 years ago. These rocks most nearly resemble terrestrial basalts, a volcanic rock type widely distributed on earth, but with certain important differences. Evidence indicates that the lunar highlands, or continents, may be formed of a less dense plutonic igneous rock called anorthosite, which consists almost entirely of the mineral plagioclase. Other important lunar sample types include glasses, breccias (complex assemblages of rock fragments cemented together by heat or pressure, or both), and the soils or regolith (finely divided rock fragments produced by many millions of years of meteoritic bombardment)."
2006-09-30 02:33:02 · answer #3 · answered by Helmut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of silicon, oxygen, aluminum and stuff. Not much iron, since it's mainly made up of mantle material from Earth and the Mars size planet that whacked into it 4 billion or so years ago.
2006-09-30 15:42:43 · answer #4 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are made up of many kinds of rocks similar like to the ones of earth. SO REMEMBER THE MOON IS MADE OF ROCKS NOT CHEESE.
2006-09-30 03:48:46 · answer #5 · answered by Ultimate Chopin Fan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light and fantasy and magic. Like kids believe.
Cheese, wood, ice, whatever you feel is right!!
Unless you're all smarty about it,
then, rock of some kind I guess.
That's kinda boring.....
2006-09-30 02:29:12 · answer #6 · answered by Nikki 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cheese, baby, lots of cheese. That is why Wallace and Grommit went there in their documentary.
2006-09-30 04:23:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe the old wifetales, that would be cheese. Basically it is dust and rocks.
2006-09-30 02:28:14 · answer #8 · answered by rltouhe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swiss cheese!
2006-09-30 03:33:41 · answer #9 · answered by Cool_dude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey man it made of a chunk of the earths crust
2006-09-30 02:28:40 · answer #10 · answered by alex d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Green Cheese. Jeez.
2006-09-30 02:48:51 · answer #11 · answered by FrogDog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋