The Moon: Crash Course Astronomy #12
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Join Phil for a tour of our capital-M Moon, from surface features, inside to the core, and back in time to theories about its formation. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace: http://www.squarespace.com/crashcourse -- Table of Contents Many Millions of Moons 0:27 Big Impact on Little Earth 3:42 Craters and Maria 2:15 Water on the Moon? H2O Yeah! 8:06 -- PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Follow Phil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/badastronomer Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support CrashCourse on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse -- PHOTOS/VIDEOS Moon Phase 47.7% http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=3894 [credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio] The Blue Marble http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=57723 [credit: Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli] Dramatic Moonset http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1023a/ [credit: G.Gillet/European Southern Observatory] Structure of the Moon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon#mediaviewer/File:Moon_diagram.svg [credit: Kelvin Song via WikiMedia Commons] Crater Science Investigations: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=10792 [credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center] Lunar crater Daealus http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunar_crater_Daedalus.jpg [credit: NASA] Mare Humorum http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mare_Humorum_-_LROC_-_WAC.JPG [credit: NASA] Luna 3: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/lu3_1.html [credit: NASA] Farside!: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/298 [credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University] Theia Earth Collision: http://io9.com/the-incredibly-violent-history-of-earths-moon-1098565110 [credit: Ron Miller, used with permission] Earth Seen From Early Moon: http://io9.com/the-incredibly-violent-history-of-earths-moon-1098565110 [credit: Ron Miller, used with permission] Moon Struck: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=10931 [credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center] Tycho: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/417417main_tychofull-20100115-full.jpg [credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University] Double crater on the moon: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2006/09/Double_crater_on_the_Moon [credit: ESA/SPACE-X (Space Exploration Institute)] Stream of Craters: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc_20090810_craterstream.html [credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University] Full Moon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon#mediaviewer/File:FullMoon2010.jpg [credit: Gregory H. Revera] Rille on the valley floor, photographic mosaic from Apollo 15: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schroter%27s_Valley#mediaviewer/File:Vallis_Schroteri.jpg [credit: NASA] New Views of Lunar Pits: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/230 [credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University] Crater Erlanger: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini-RF/multimedia/erlanger_crater.html [credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]
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luna is most likely hollow, along with many other astral bodies.. let's be honest.
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Who saw the supermoon at Dec 14?
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Isn't the actual name of "The Moon" Luna?
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How do you know the moon and all those events happened billions of years ago? It makes no sense to me how you could come up with such an astronomical number lol. How old would you say the earth is and what would your evidence be?
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When you're a teenage student in a country who just now got an interest in science, math, and engineering.
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There is no evidence of anything as large as a planet hitting us, the chances of it hitting us and creating something 1/4th the size yet 81x lighter than earth, 400x as close, yet 400x smaller than the sun. Plus, the dance the earth, moon, and sun do called scissoring, makes it almost more likely it was put into place, to create life. We have yet to find anything like it anywhere. If we were seeing this on another planet we'd call it a binary planet system.
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Can you see Tycho Crater with the naked eye ?
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the guy at the start sounds like Salman Khan
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Isn't the official name of the Moon, Luna though. Isn't the Moon just a layman name
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Moon wards is awesome but yesterday Elon Musk announced his plans to make humanity a "multi-planetary species" through a SpaceX Mars colonization mission. I don't know about you guys but I find the prospect incredibly exciting!
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Thank you for making this astronomy video, Phil Plate and all the others at Crash Course! The Moon is also very interesting, but I do not think our is the most interesting of all the moons in the Universe or even the Solar system. When are you going to talk about other moons? Anyway, thank you for the video!
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We never landed!#NeilNotMyChristian
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that is in English, the name of the moon is not Moon
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We need to get a massive telescope in one of those permanently dark craters!!!
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Nasa discovered the moon "rang like a bell' when Apollo 15 crashed it's lander into its surface. I thought it was generally accepted the moon is 'hollow' in that it has no core and no heavy elements in the samples brought back to earth.
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I will go there someday!! :)
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Great explanation!
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My word, I was thinking about doing an aerospace degree and that ending has inspired me to do it even more so!
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We won't be going back to the Moon, but going to the Moon for the first time.
Are we fooled so easily?
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Look at Jeb, Bill and Bob on the shelf back there!
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