Posted on 04/18/2022 7:23:42 PM PDT by algore
Newly discovered temperature data from the 1970s moon landings, released in the Journal of Geophysical Research in April, reveals that NASA astronauts probably warmed up the moon's surface temperature by as much as 6 degrees Fahrenheit by walking around and poking into the lunar surface.
The data comes from so-called heat-flow experiments that were installed on the moon in 1971 and 1972 during the Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 missions. For the experiments, astronauts on each mission drilled two holes into the surface of the moon at depths ranging from 3.2 feet to 7.5 feet deep.
The astronauts inserted fiberglass tubes into the holes and plopped platinum thermometers inside to read the temperatures at varying depths below the moon's surface. Those probes beamed the temperature data to Earth in near real time.
Apollo data crunchers noticed in 1975 that the thermometers recorded peculiar warming on the surface of the moon roughly four years after the probes were installed.
Researchers hypothesized early on that the men who walked on the moon may have prompted the temperature spike,
Recently, scientists looked at 440 previously unexamined seven-track tapes that recorded and archived raw temperature data from the moon in the spring of 1975. The data they found on those tapes, coupled with other studies and temperature records from the moon, is making scientists increasingly confident that hotter lunar surface temperatures were indeed the astronauts' fault.
The new records suggest the moon's surface temperature in the areas studied rose by roughly 3 to 6 degrees Fahrenheit (1.6 degrees to 3.5 degrees Celsius). Shallower probes recorded greater temperature increases than deeper ones and also heated up more quickly. That suggests the warming must have come from something on the moon's surface, not a casing or a natural phenomenon.
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Thousands of pending nuclear tests on Earth might be bad, but at least they are carbon neutral
My grandmother said that those rockets knocking holes in the clouds was causing the weather to go screwy.
I thought it was the bee.
Astronut excursions [and landings and takeoffs] energy input vs. ddaily Solar input and radiation into Space?
So did I. Probably too ridiculous for the Bee.
Are we sure this isn’t the Babylon Bee?
Can’t be that the sensors/thermometers are out of calibration..
Probably caused by the lunar rover’s emissions.
Impossible, the moon landing was fake…
Wow! Reading 47 year old magnetic tapes. I'm amazed they could read them at all.
It was V-8 powered you know.....
I never said Lunatics were not involved
P.s. Math might be racisss so be careful out there
In that case it’s no problem to fake Moon climate data! :)
The thousand previous nuclear and atomic test didn’t hurt a bit… Or did they? Hmm!
I like how you think…
Sounds like it, doesn’t it?
It’s like these clowns just refuse to admit that the SUN exist?
I can identify with Lunatics as I now frequently get to see the Moon at night after moving to a place with way fewer clouds.
What do Lunatics do about their own Moon Shadows?
Astronaut farts 🤪
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mercury.
If 24 American astronauts can raise the moon temperature with their footsteps, then what about 8 BILLION people walking on planet earth?
That solves the conundrum of the cause of global warming.
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