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How are they different?
By the Lunar and Planetary Institute
For use in teacher workshops
Moon Formation / Processes
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Earth
7930 miles (12,756.3 km) diameter
23 degree axis tilt (seasons!)
Surface temps –73 to 48 C (-100 to 120F)
Thick atmosphere, mild greenhouse effect
Liquid water – lots! - at surface
2160 miles (3476 km) diameter
7 degree tilt (~no seasons)
Surface temps - 107 C to –153 C (224 F to –243 F)
No atmosphere
No liquid water … Ice at poles in shadows?
Moon
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Earth Moon
No Magnetic FieldSmall Moon QuakesSmall, Offset Core
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Earth’s Moon
• How did our Moon form?
• What’s been happening since?
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A few data to ponder ….
Lower density – “lighter” - relative to planets
Less iron than whole Earth, more aluminum and titanium
Moon’s chemical signature ~ Earth’s mantle
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How Did the Moon Form?
A few more data to ponder
Does not orbit in equatorial plane of Earth, or ecliptic
Earth/Moon - high angular momentum
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Lunar Formation Models
The moon is a sister world that formed in orbit around Earth as the Earth formed.
The moon formed somewhere else in the solar system then was captured into orbit around Earth.
Early Earth spun so fast that it spun off the moon.
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Impact by Mars-sized proto-planet
4.5 billion years ago
Explains: •Chemistry•Orbit•High angular
momentum
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Lunar Geologic History
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4.5 billion years ago, our Moon forms (lunar rocks and meteorites)
Lunar Geologic History
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Magma Ocean Rocks
60025Anorthosite4.44-4.51 Ga95% Plag Feld (anorthite)Magma Ocean!No Water!
76535Troctolite
4.2-4.3 Ga
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Highlands - light, rough (Terrae)
Mostly anorthosite
(plagioclase feldspars - lots of calcium and aluminum)
“In place” rocks are 4.5 to 4.3 billion years old
BIG Dark areas?
Lunar Geologic History
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Lunar Impact Basins
Imbrium Rim Orientale BasinBig, frequent impacts until 3.8 billion years ago
Impact events continue on all moons and planets today
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Breccias and Impact Melts
15445Impact melt + clasts
67016Polymict Breccia
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Lunar Geologic History Mare Volcanism
SW Mare Imbrium
Mare Imbrium
Volcanism after impacts – most before 3 Ga (to 1 Ga)
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Lunar Volcanism
Aristarchus Plateau
Marius Hills
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Lunar Basalts
15555
15016
3.3 Ga
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Lowlands – dark, smooth Maria (16%)
Basalt – fine grained dark igneous rock rich in iron and magnesium (stuff that sank in magma ocean)
Few hundred meters thick
Rocks are 4.3 to 3.1 billion years old … volcanic flows as recently as 1 billion years ago!!
Lunar Geologic History
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And then ….
All was quiet.
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• Except for impacts...
7 November; ~30 lb TNT3 m-wide crater (estimate)
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• No Wind• No Flowing Water• No Erosion
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• Except for impacts...
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How are they different in terms of geologic processes?
And WHY?
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Earth
Active wind/water erosion
Impacts
Active volcanoes
Earthquakes
Active magnetic field
Few craters
Geologically Active!
Moon
NO Active wind/water erosion
Impacts
NO active volcanoes
Small moonquakes
NO active magnetic field
Buckets of craters
Geologically Inactive!
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Earth
Plate tectonics!
Recycles!
Moon
NO plate tectonics
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Earth Moon
HOT! Not so hot!
Why so different?
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What’s Our Plan for Space?
• Fly the shuttle as safely as possible until 2010
• Complete the ISS – 6-person crew by 2009
• Align science, exploration, and aeronautics to support human space flight
• Bring the new Crew Exploration Vehicle – CEV - on line
• Establish a lunar program that informs future missions to Mars and other destinations
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Why?
• Set up, for the first time, a full-fledged habitat on another world.
• Test advanced spacesuits and rovers. • Try out methods for protecting explorers from
deadly radiation. • Learn to operate crucial life support and power
needed on Mars. • Gauge the effects of the absence of normal
gravity on the body.
• New technology.
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Return to the Moon Chandryaan – 2007!
LRO – 2008 !
Identify ResourcesMap the Surface
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Return to the Moon!
• 2012 – Develop and test technologies for resource utilization, communications, power
• 2014 – CEV, Ares launch vehicle
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• 2018 – Humans for week-long stays• Next: 45-day stays at outposts
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