Earth Sciences 1086F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Geology Of The Moon, Lunar Mare, Zond 6
3 Nov 2017
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Intro: tidal coupling earth has forced the moon into the exact same rotational and orbital. It has resolve features that our eyes can capture period: the result of this coupling is that we only see one hemisphere of the moon. Craters to learn by: meteorid: sand size to 100m, asteroid: greater than 100m. Study of large or small vibrations and motions is called seismology. The moon is seismically much quieter than earth. Clementine us probe that mapped the moon. Moon must have formed in a molten state, as the moon cooled denser materials sank to form a small core and low density materials floated to the top to form the crust. This was a period of cratering when the crust solidified. This caused giant basins of dark basalts which formed the maria. An asteroid struck the moon and opposite this impact it created a place called jumpled terrain which disturbed the landscape.
