Moon

millions of years ago, the moon was created. Many believe it all started when a mars-sized planet impacted the Earth. Afterwards caught in the Earth’s orbit and soon formed into what became the moon. Up till now, scientists now acknowledge theories of the moon, the moon’s environment, and plenty know the understandings and compositions of the moon. Currently, the moon isn’t as uncommonly unknown to us now, ever since a little over four hundred years ago. That is, the moon - in theory - has…

With 71% percent of the whole world being covered in water, it is no wonder that we as humans have a fascination with the Earth’s oceans and its tides. In fact, it’s even worthwhile to invest in knowledge of the causes and effects of tides and currents in regard to the planet we inhabit. First, we shall examine the causes of tides and currents and then explore the effects of those tides and currents on various subjects of interest. At first glance, tides appear simple, but the complexity of…

galaxies. In order to start exploring distant planets, we must first go back to the beginning of space exploration. Moon missions are essential to the exploration of distant worlds. These moon missions may also be used as a base of operations where humans will learn how to replenish essential supplies. “NASA has an exciting new vision of future space flight - the return of humans to the moon by 2020 in preparation for visits to Mars and possibly beyond.” (Schlager,NP) Those skills are essential…

early 1970s, Project Apollo sought out to explore the moon. Apollo 11 achieved this goal when Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon and said, "That's one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind." Landing on the moon was a major milestone for “mankind,” but was not the only goal of Apollo. New spacecrafts were invented such as the command module, the service module, and the lunar module. Procedures for getting to the moon and exploring its surface were created or improved…

night so the moon relies on the sun to set and rise during a certain time in the hemisphere 2.The seasons result from the 23.5-degree tilt of the Earth's axis combined with its revolution around the sun 3.The Moon's and Sun's gravitational pulls on Earth are responsible for this natural phenomenon creating the tides. Tides occur because the Moon's gravity decreases with distance from the Moon. 4. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is positioned directly between the Sun and the Moon and…

Giant Impact Theory The moons formation isn't clear to this day, although it does have many theories on its formation. The moons biggest theory is the Giant Impact Theory, which states that a mars sized object strikes earth breaking pieces off, and the gravitational force combines the broken pieces of earth into one, which is known as the Earths moon. The Earths and moons mantle are exactly identical, supporting the impact theory ("Origin of the Moon"). The moon doesn't have any identical…

lose the 1964 election. LBJ came up with an idea: JFK should send him a memorandum inquiring about how America could beat the soviets in the space race, and whether there was a better way to prove American dominance that to land the first man on the moon. immediately, Johnson set his experts to work drafting up answers to the provided questions and began figuring out how to get the new Apollo project to succeed. To further convince the President to support the Apollo program, he sent a report to…

Space exploration was not possible until the early 1960’s. Our moon has been orbiting our planet for billions of years and it was not until almost fifty years ago that humans developed the technology and skill to explore it. Even though many astronauts have taken on brave missions, Neil Armstrong was the first human to set foot on the moon and accomplished what no other person could do because he was brave, able to handle extreme situations, highly trained, and experienced with air and…

President Kennedy announced that the US would reach the moon before the Soviets it showed that the US wanted to win the Space Race and that they were going to do anything to redeem themselves after not being able to get the first person in space. Ultimately Vostok 1 made the US want to have a larger breakthrough than the Soviets. This lead to the start of the Apollo Program. Since NASA’s budget increased it meant that they wanted to get a man on the moon so bad that they would do anything at any…

The moon has been a natural phenomena for as long as humans have been on this Earth. Even though humans have been studying this natural satellite for many, many years, and even stepping on its surface, its origins remain a mystery. Many theories have been proposed over the years, Some considered reasonable, and some not so much. There are possibilities such as the co-formation, Capture, Fission and Giant impact theories. The most accepted and reasonable being the Giant impact theory. The…