The Moon reveals its weirder side - SELENE mission reports on gravity anomalies.

Nature News ^ | 12 February 2009 | Katharine Sanderson

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (TMA)-1 ???

[randog]

[duckman]

Reminds me of a 70’s rock album cover.

[SampleMan]

The Moon spins on its axis once per Earth orbit, so the same side always faces Earth. To get information from the far side of the Moon relayed to Earth is difficult, because the Moon itself blocks the line of sight back to Earth. To get round this problem, SELENE has one satellite close to the Moon to collect data, and a companion sub-satellite in a much higher orbit to relay that information back to Earth.

??????? Why not just store the data and stransmit when non-obstructed? And two satellites orbiting the same object would still have that object obstructing their communication, unless they were BOTH in extremely high orbits.

[Quix]

Naw.

Just the ET creator’s anti-grav engine components driving the thing . . .

slight /sar

[ETL]

Since only one side of the Moon has been facing Earth for its entire 4 billion or so year history, of course the crust on that side will be different gravitationally from the far side. Earth’s gravity has been tugging on it all that time.

[chainsaw]

Keeping it simple was just too complicated.

[RonInNaples]

First thing I though of too. Got this big ol’ ball of gravity tugging on it from one side and nothing on the other side.

[DannyTN]

So does a gravitational hot spot represent a good place for a moon base (assuming more gravity is more earthlike and therefore somehow better/healthier), or does it represent a geologic risk of some kind:?

[Peanut Gallery]

ping

[Atlas Sneezed]

So does a gravitational hot spot represent a good place for a moon base (assuming more gravity is more earthlike and therefore somehow better/healthier), or does it represent a geologic risk of some kind:?

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The differences would be microscopic, and thus irrelevant to human life and the associate engineering issues.

[Moonman62]

They are measuring extremely small variations in gravity. A person would not be able to tell the difference. The Earth also has variances in its gravitational field.

[Moonman62]

The debris suggests that the Moon enjoyed a 'quiet period' in terms of volcanic activity, between 3.55 billion and 2.84 billion years ago, the researchers think.

More misinformation from the evilutionist conspiracy. /s

[DallasMike]

The debris suggests that the Moon enjoyed a 'quiet period' in terms of volcanic activity, between 3.55 billion and 2.84 billion years ago, the researchers think.

Impossible -- the universe is only 6,000 years old. I know this because I've read it in 57,683 posts on FR over the last week.

[DallasMike]

You beat me by 91 seconds.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Billthedrill]

Nazi Moon Base. I told you guys but nobody listens to me.

[SunkenCiv]

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Posted on 06/05/2006 7:32:33 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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[SunkenCiv]

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