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The dark areas on the Moon are known as maria (MAHR ee uh). The word maria is Latin for seas; its singular is mare (MAHR ee). The term comes from the smoothness of the dark areas and their resemblance ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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Because there is no atmosphere, the Moon does not have weather like the Earth. However, it is exposed to solar radiation storms which are considered to be a form of space weather. ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... the Moon came from an enormous impact long ago in Earth's history—the big whack theory—is that the abundance of elements in the Moon's crust are very similar to those found in the ... make up the Moon. That's when we start getting in to things like pyroxenes and plagioclase feldspars and olivines. Heiken, G.H. et al, Lunar Sourcebook: a user's guide to the moon. Cambridge ...
... deg; F to over 200° F in the direct sunlight. If the Sun is in a very active part of its cycle, giant outbursts from the Sun called coronal mass ejections (CME) ... have some early warning from monitoring spacecraft like the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) so they could take shelter in the better radiation-shielded parts of the ISS.
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... stars. It has four arms that wrap around a large core of stars. At the center of the core is a massive black hole.
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The surface is pretty strange. We know from analyzing the infrared light reflected from Pluto that its surface is a mixture of a lot of different sorts of ice (ordinary water ice, plus frozen ... by Dr. John Spencer, Ph.D.
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Space weather is vastly different than terrestrial weather. It generally involves storms on the Sun—enormous masses of plasma (electrons and protons) impacting the Earth and creating electrical currents high in the atmosphere (aurora) and in the ground along pipelines. The plasma from the Sun penetrates satellites, causes radiation damage to ...
Scientists do not know what the core of the Moon consists of. However, they suspect that is not a large iron one like Earth's because of the Moon's low density and lack of a magnetic field. http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... it is a light gray, almost a cinder color. There are colored glasses on the Moon, as well, including green, orange, and black. The color seems to correlate to the titanium content of the glass. The Moon is covered in craters, mountains, valleys and great plains, called Maria. Since the Moon has ...
They are big like the Earth, or they are really big like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto is the smallest; smaller than our Moon.
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Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D.
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