Space/Planets

Talking about the Moon is always fun. Just when you think that you have exhausted everything that anyone could possibly say about it, you come up with more facts. Some Moon facts puzzle scientists, there is the fact that the Moon vibrates for over an hour when struck. Those that come to this site often, know I have talked about this subject just recently. I had discussed it when I spoke about hollow planets and Moons. When scientists talk about this fact, they really have no answer. It could be the Moon is hollow, or that it is made of something that is unknown to us that has properties that make it vibrate when struck. Why would the Moon's composition be so different than that of the Earth, when most scientists believe that the Moon was formed from a piece of the Earth? Will we find out someday that the Moon was never part of the Earth? It certainly is beginning to look that way.

Moon
Photo Source: NASA

The Moon was originally said to be far dryer than any desert on Earth. So dry that the driest place on Earth was thought to be far wetter than anywhere on the Moon. Knowing how dry the Moon was supposed to be and knowing that the astronauts didn't see any water, we have to conclude that the Moon is a very dry world, don't we? Well we did until Apollo 15 went to the Moon. Then it happened, an event that still has scientists scratching the top of their collective heads. A cloud of water vapor was seen near the surface of the Moon. No one knows where it came from or how it got there, but they did know one thing, it was huge. The cloud was about 100 miles square. It was thought that maybe the tanks on the spaceship had caused this cloud to form, but even if they leaked out everything, they could not created a cloud of such magnitude. No, there had to be some other reason for the formation of the water vapor cloud.

Why is it that a lifeless Moon with no magnetic field has rocks that are magnetized. Is there some other way that magnetism can affect objects and magnetize them? If a force can align the electrons in an object it will become magnetized. Could it be that the constant bombardment of the unprotected Moon by cosmic rays could be the cause?

Moon Rock
Photo Source: NASA

When we look at the Moon we see a body that is supposed to be either younger than the Earth or approximately the same age. Obviously if the Moon came from the Earth it would have to be younger than the Earth. If it was formed at the same time as the Earth, it would have to be the same age. That argument sounds reasonable doesn't it? The problem is that scientists can not explain why over 99 per cent of the Moon rocks that were brought back to Earth were older than 90 percent of all Earth rocks. One rock was thought to be well over 5 billion years old. Now here is the strange part of all this, those rocks came from an area that NASA believed was one of the youngest on the Moon. Has NASA scientists found rocks on the Moon that are older than the Earth?

Iron samples were brought back from the Moon both by the US and by Soviet probes. Iron samples themselves are not that remarkable, after all they are all over Earth, but there was something different about the iron samples brought back from the Moon. The iron doesn't rust. One might be able to understand why iron particles on the Moon don't rust, after all the Moon has no atmosphere, but how can the fact be explained that these same samples were brought back to Earth and years later still have not rusted? What is different about the iron samples taken from the Moon and iron on Earth? There have been a couple of instances of ancient iron being found on Earth that never rusted. One was a marker for a village that was partially sunk into the ground. It was made in the early middle ages. Another one is an iron column from India that never rusted. Did the material for these objects come from the Moon or was there a lost process that allowed some ancients to stop iron from rusting?

Actually the Moon is even stranger than first imagined. Why is it that most of the Moon's surface is composed of tiny pieces of glass? Where did all this glass come from? It reminds me of the material that was found to be at Nacza Peru. This is the area that contains the giant drawings that are so big that they can only be seen form the air. It is also the area that contains what looks to be ancient airfields. Is it just a coincidence that the top soil there is also tiny glass pieces? There are at least two different schools of thought on the material that coats Nacza. One school says that the material is only iron oxide, but Von Daniken, the author of Chariots of the Gods had said that he had some of this stuff analyzed by a lab and they said that it was finely ground glass.

Lunar Soil
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When we think of the Earth we think of erosion. Rocks that pepper the surface of the Earth eventually become soil. Scientists were thinking the same way about the Moon until they found out something that was very strange. The lunar soil was far older than any of the rocks. That meant that the lunar soil was not formed by such a process and the soil was not from the rocks. But if this is true, where did the lunar soil come from? That is a question that still remains to be answered. It also might mean that first there was soil and rocks came later. This is a very strange phenomenon.

Lastly there are those Mascons that I have talked about before. They are round flat objects that exist under every maria. The word mascon stands for mass concentration and these dense objects exist under the ground. This structure is described as not only being beneath the Maria, but of also having a positive gravitational anomaly. This is illustrated by the mascon basins on the Moon. We don't know why these objects exist and have never seen one first hand and there are those that believe that the objects are artificial.

Yes there are a lot of things on the Moon that don't seem to make sense to us right now. As we investigate the Moon even further, hopefully we will solve some of these puzzles. Solving these puzzles might even help us in other areas that we haven't thought of yet.