The Moon is that world next door, a grey sphere that catches our eye but isn’t nearly as exciting as some of the other worlds out there, like ruddy Mars or brightly striped Jupiter or lava and ash spewing Io. While the Moon may not be the “It” world everyone has fantasies of sending a spacecraft to, it is the one we actually have the potential to visit, and have visited in the past. And we’re not just talking about visiting with robotic spacecraft, we’re looking forward to a not-too-distant day when humans can once again look back at Earth from the surface of the Moon.
With this community science project, we will explore Lunar Impact Melt flows. When large enough asteroids hit the Moon, the kinetic energy from the impact will carve out a crater and, in many cases, even melt enough rock to send white hot, gooey melt (it’s what we’d call “lava,” except that it didn’t erupt from underground) sloshing around the new crater and surrounding regions.
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