What is there in the core or center of moon is it molten lava just like that of earth?
2007-01-29 20:03:04 · 9 answers · asked by rajesh bhowmick 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
From http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Sept99/MoonCore.html:
Sizing the Lunar Core: In Search of Conclusive Evidence
The deployment of new seismometers on the Moon is anticipated early in the next decade. The Japanese mission, LUNAR-A, is currently scheduled for launch in 2003. It will carry a mapping camera and two surface penetrators equipped with seismometers. Each 13-kilogram, missle-shaped penetrator has been designed to withstand an impact force of 10,000 G (10,000 times the force of gravity at Earth's surface) and is expected to pierce one to three meters into the surface. According to the mission profile, one penetrator will hit the equatorial near side (in the vicinity of the Apollo 12 and 14 landing sites) and the other one is targeted at the equatorial far side.
"Key questions about the Moon, including its internal structure, origin, and relation to Earth, are being addressed now and will usher us into the 21st century. "
thus, mankind is still uncertain what composes the lunar core or what size it is but we are trying to find out.
2007-01-29 21:04:51 · answer #1 · answered by Synapse 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the Moon is not volcanically active. It has no molten core. And because the Moon is so small, it does not produce enough internal pressures to generate any significant amount of heat. This is true of all the smaller moons of the Solar Systems.
Many of the larger moons around the larger outer planets are very volcanically active though. Jupiter's Io, for example, has extraordinary volcanoes that can be seen with the Hubble telescope and even with Earth-based telescopes.
2007-01-30 11:40:25 · answer #2 · answered by tychobrahe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The interior of the Moon is made up of different layers of rock, some solid and some molten like lava.
2007-01-30 04:26:21 · answer #3 · answered by Sushmita N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The centre of the moon is believed to be cool. The moon is about 0.25 the size of the earth and cooled a lot faster.
2007-01-30 04:09:24 · answer #4 · answered by Ricvee 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The moon is probably rocky right to the center.
The pressure is considerable so it must be pretty hot.
2007-01-30 07:21:37 · answer #5 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no,it is not as the moon is a mixture of tiny particles of matter and its escape velocity is too less.thus,heavier particles cannot stay inside the surface and thus makes it cool.
2007-01-30 05:16:39 · answer #6 · answered by chaitanya_thegr8 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Vacuum.
2007-01-30 04:40:05 · answer #7 · answered by puvvula s 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How am I supposed to know? Nobody has been to the centre of the moon.
2007-01-30 04:06:55 · answer #8 · answered by Kurtis A 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
solid rock
2007-01-30 04:08:36 · answer #9 · answered by Normefoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋