History of the Moon

 Moon is also known as “Luna” sa Romans, sinasabing pinagmulan daw ng bwan ay sila Selene tsaka si Artemis, at
iba pang mga pangalan sa mythologies.
 It is the second brightest object in the sky after the sun.
 The moon is a bit more than one-fourth (27 percent) the size of Earth.
 The Luna is the fifth largest moon in the solar system.
 The crust of the moon is about 38 to 63 miles (60 to 100 kilometers) thick.
 It takes 27.3 days to orbit the earth.
 So the moon orbits around the earth once per a month.
 The time between successive new moon is 29.5 days or 709 hrs.
 Dahil sa size at composition nito, sinasabi rin itong terrestrial planet kasama ang Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
Luna 2
 The Moon was first visited by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 in 1959.
Apollo 11
 The first landing was on July 20, 1969 kasama si Armstrong. (Apollo 11)
Astronomers
 Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 17
 The Last was 1972 (Apollo 17)
Moon and Earth
 The Moon's gravitational attraction is stronger on the side of the Earth nearest to the Moon and weaker on the
opposite side.
Moon made of
 The moon's surface is covered with dead volcanoes, impact craters, and lava flows, some visible to the unaided
stargazer
 Of course, the period of heavy bombardment, which ended about 3.8 billion years ago, wasn't responsible for all
of the craters on the moon.
 Early scientists thought the dark stretches of the moon might be oceans, and so named such features mare, which
is Latin for "seas" (maria when there are more than one).
 They are oceans of a sort, but rather than water, such bodies are made up of pools of hardened lava.
 Early in the moon's history, the interior was molten enough to produce volcanoes, though it quickly cooled and
hardened.
 Lava also burst from the crust when large enough asteroids broke through the surface.
How moon formed
 In 1970’s the leading explanation for the moon’s origin, is known as Giant Impact Hypothesis.
 It suggests the moon resulted from the collision of two protoplanets. (Earth and Mars)
 Sinasabi rin na ang mga sample na bato mula sa moon ay pinag aralan at lumalabas na ang bato ay mas katulad sa Earth.