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We think that there may be water ice in the ever-dark craters at the poles of the Moon, but we do not know for sure. Finding out is one of our top priorities. ---- Answer provided by ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - THE MOON

... noticeable ice caps, but we believe with a relative degree of confidence that extensive ice 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 ...

... than the Earth, and the horizon is much closer. This makes it harder to grasp how far away something really is. With no atmosphere to diffuse any light, everything is optically sharp, but everything on the Moon is rounded and softened by aeons of impacts of all sizes. There is a sharp contrast between ...

... there are caves on the Moon, but we really haven't seen any direct evidence of them. The long sinuous rilles are formed from collapsed lava tubes, which served as pipelines carrying fresh lava to the front lines of lava flows. As the Moon cooled and the lava shrank back down into the ...

... what we consider safe here on Earth. We have learned to live with most of the dangers here on Earth, but it has been remarked that exploring the frontier is a fancy name for ... on Earth. However the Moon will have its own hazards, including solar radiation, micro-meteor storms, and dependence on pressurized suits and habitats. Airlocks and seals can help minimize risk, but there will always be the ...

... the path of another large object like the Moon. We've found rocks from the Moon and Mars on Earth, usually in Antarctica or the Sahara desert, so there are almost certainly rocks from Mars and the Earth on our Moon. The question is where they ...

... , Moon's surface on average has an albedo, or reflectance of light, similar to that of charcoal. All light that we see from the Moon is either sunlight bouncing off the Moon and into our eyes (the bright ... off the Earth, then the Moon and back into our eyes (the dim part of a crescent Moon). Earthlight, the light during the lunar night reflected from the Earth, is significantly brighter than the light of a full Moon at night on ...

... not account for the enormous length of time that scientists such as geologists were finding in their analyses of the age of rocks on the Earth. So they soon realized that the Sun could not be powered by any ordinary means like a common fire or it would soon go out The mystery remained until the twentieth ...

There are a lot of different things to do on the Moon. There's science to be done, products to be made, and fun to be had. Using the vacuum and raw sunlight we can make ... to experience the Moon's level of gravity. The moon is rich in resources and energy. Humans will use the Moon to generate clean safe energy for the Earth. Humans will also mine metals and other materials on the Moon that ...

Indoor football on the Moon would be much like it is here on Earth except the ball would travel much farther when thrown. If you were to play outside, you would ... would make running, catching and throwing more difficult. Even though there is less gravity on the Moon, you wouldn't be able to throw the ball hard enough to get it in orbit, let alone to ... by US Space and Rocket Center Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This ...

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