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NASA Research Provides New Details On Mystery of How the Moon Got ‘Inked’
spacecoastdaily.com ^
Posted on 05/01/2016 11:31:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Lunar swirls can be tens of miles across and appear in groups or just as an isolated feature.
Previous observations yielded two significant clues about their formation:
First, they appear where ancient bits of magnetic field are embedded in the lunar crust (although not every fossil magnetic field on the moon has a lunar swirl).
Second, the bright areas in the swirls appear to be less weathered than their surroundings.
The space environment is harsh; many things can cause material exposed to space to change chemically and darken over time, including impacts from microscopic meteorites and the effects of the solar wind a million-mile-per-hour stream of electrically conducting gas blown from the surface of the sun.
Those clues led to three prominent theories about how the swirls formed. The swirls and the magnetic fields could both have formed from plumes of material ejected by comet impacts.
Alternatively, perhaps when fine dust particles get lofted by micrometeorite impacts, an existing magnetic field over the swirls sorts them according to their susceptibility to magnetism, forming light and dark patterns with different compositions.
Finally, since particles in the solar wind (electrons and ions) are electrically charged, they respond to magnetic forces. Perhaps the magnetic field shields the surface from weathering by the solar wind.
In the new research, teams of scientists created computer models that provide new insights into how the magnetic shield hypothesis could work.
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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; lunarorigin; moon
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posted on
05/01/2016 11:31:11 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
What we REALLY want to know is why is the moon hollow.
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posted on
05/01/2016 11:35:16 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Off the NWO)
To: BenLurkin
Or they are just the by-products of mining operations ...
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posted on
05/01/2016 11:36:17 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: PIF
so it wasn’t the Decepticons?
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posted on
05/01/2016 11:36:58 AM PDT
by
max americana
(fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
To: ichabod1
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posted on
05/01/2016 11:37:40 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
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posted on
05/01/2016 11:39:10 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: BenLurkin
ancient bits of magnetic field are embedded in the lunar crust They looked for magnetic monopoles in moon rocks.
Didn't find any.
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posted on
05/01/2016 11:43:50 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: max americana
No not the cartoon guys rather the usual lot of miners from around the solar system ...
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posted on
05/01/2016 11:45:55 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: BenLurkin
Just a giant version of these:
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posted on
05/01/2016 11:50:54 AM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: ichabod1
What we REALLY want to know is why is the moon hollow. Because that's how it was made.
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posted on
05/01/2016 11:51:23 AM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: BenLurkin; 1FreeAmerican; A. Patriot; AndrewC; antonia; aristotleman; Boogieman; Carilisa; ...
Lunar Lunalogists are puzzled about what caused numerous lunar spiral features on the moon's surface. . . however, Electric Universe cosmologists are not. . . especially that many are double spirals or swirls totally expected under the Electric Universe hypothesis from Birkeland Currents and are seen everywhere in the Electric Universe. They are scalable from the microcosm to the macrocosm and can be seen even in the shape of spiral galaxies. PING!
If you want on or off the Electric Universe Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
05/01/2016 11:59:04 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: ichabod1
Moon hollow? All these years I thought the earth was hollow! It used to be advertised in all the men’s magazines back in the 1960s!
To: Talisker
You could have something there! The “moon” which is really a spacecraft parked in permanent orbit right in front of our eyes lol, could definitely have been blown!!!!!
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posted on
05/01/2016 12:10:54 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Off the NWO)
To: ichabod1
Swiss Cheese has holes in it, therefore partially hollow.
The moon has been posited to be made from cheese.
Therefore, if the moon is partially hollow, it is made from Swiss Cheese.
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posted on
05/01/2016 12:11:08 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
the earth was hollowWhere the Deros live.
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posted on
05/01/2016 12:11:48 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: ichabod1
You could have something there! The moon which is really a spacecraft parked in permanent orbit right in front of our eyes lol, could definitely have been blown!!!!!
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posted on
05/01/2016 12:13:32 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
05/01/2016 12:15:54 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
To: ichabod1
To: thoughtomator
There, I said it. SOMEBODY had too!
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posted on
05/01/2016 12:57:26 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Off the NWO)
To: Swordmaker
20 posts and only ONE SINGLE POST that offers any insight in to the actual topic at hand.
I've been studying Electric Universe Theory for about four years now. HIGHLY RECCOMMEND everyone at least check it out. Explains a lot very neatly without a wad of nonsensical theory-patches (dark energy, dark matter, black holes, etc). Thanks Swordmaker.
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posted on
05/01/2016 3:19:49 PM PDT
by
misanthrope
(Liberalism; it is not unthinking ignorance, it is malignant evil.)
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