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... no matter how closely we look we keep finding smaller and smaller craters. Even Moon rocks and craters have craters on them, often called zap pits. One thing we do want to do on the Moon is count the craters of different sizes, and try to get a date of when they happened. This impact record will tell us a lot about when asteroids have likely hit the ...

... . It would be a beautiful sight. The lunarscape around you will take on a reddish hue from the longer visible wavelengths passing through the Earth's atmosphere, while the shorter blue wavelength gets filtered out ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - THE MOON

Approximately 100,000 are already known, and there are probably a few hundred thousand others. ---- Answer provided by Alan Hale, Ph.D. & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book ...

... the country with a population of about 2 million, about double the population of Washington D.C. Of course, the physical circumstances on the Moon are markedly different from those faced in the West Indies, but in principle the ...

... be played on the Moon just as on Earth. Because the Moon has no atmosphere many sports will be played under large domes or in large underground structures. If sports are played on the lunar surface ... of new games can be invented on the Moon. Instead of snowboarding, folks on the Moon might have regoboarding which would involve sliding down the regolith on the sides of craters. It is likely that new ...

... the smaller ones (one mile or less in diameter) might someday be turned into domed habitats. The meteor crater in Arizona is a good example of how a smaller lunar crater would appear to astronauts on the Moon. ---- Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids ...

... small explosions, say the size of a small fire cracker, if an astronaut was in the right place to observe them. Because the Moon has no atmosphere, there are no natural chemical explosions on the Moon. Nuclear explosions require a very complicated sequence of events to trigger them, events which are also not found naturally on the Moon. ---- Answer provided ...

... soda. However, they are not in a readily usable form, and so have to be processed out. It takes significant amounts of energy to unlock these elements from the soil and process ... a person fed. Recycling will be a very important discipline on the Moon. People who waste will be socially unpopular. By itself, the Moon could not support a population larger than a few tens or ... —numbering in the millions—could be supported on the Moon. ---- Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to ...

... the general public. Having businesses and trades involved in the development of the community will be important, so that it's not just a NASA science outpost. Another strong factor is how the ... on the Moon will influence the design. A base designed solely to provide support to some infrared (IR) telescopes on the Moon will be a lot different from one that supports IR scopes, oxygen mining, crater ...

... is located in the soil and in cold traps at both of the lunar poles. Cold traps are craters on the Moon where, because they are always angled away from the Sun, light—and therefore the energy which creates heat—hasn't entered for the last three ...

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