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In the following short essay I will try to convince you that out of Titan, Enceladus, Mars, and Europa, Titan is the most likely planetary body to support life while Mars is the most unlikely. First let’s talk about what a planetary body requires in order to support life. Read the rest of this entry »

Lunar dust is basically the ejecta of a meteoroid’s collision with the Moon. These ejecta covers lunar surface with an average depth of 20 meters. If we put this Moon dust under a microscope, we can see that the single particle is as small as 0.01 mm. We also refer to this surface dust as regolith. Lunar erosion is present but it is so slow that it is almost negligible. Read the rest of this entry »

Interplanetary debris in form of meteoroids is the most significant cause of Moon’s surface change. These rocks that roam the solar system end their journey by colliding into a planet or another body. Moon with its vulnerability of having no atmosphere is a great attraction for these rocks or meteoroids. Our Earth is protected by our atmosphere which burns and disintegrates any incoming meteoroid. On Moon, these collisions have scarred and sculpted the surface. Read the rest of this entry »

Now lets take a closer look at the surface of this bright moonlight-emitting surface that woke up our little seven year old friend. Surely our friend had a stare-match with the Moon, but where was our friend’s flock of thoughts flying to? What was our friend staring at? Let’s answer at least one of these questions. Read the rest of this entry »

“Moonlight woke me up… I had never seen the Moon so bright… We stared at each other for about 40 minutes”

This is the first of my new blog series on the Moon. A sweet person was awoken by a menacing round of moonlight recently (moonlight is innocent by the way), so I thought I investigate the culprit that sent out such moonlight. In the beginning it would just be the basics that we all should know, but I will make it interesting later on. Read the rest of this entry »