The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago and has a diameter of 3,476 km. The Moon's surface is composed of rock and dust from meteorite impacts. It has no atmosphere and no water. The phases of the Moon are caused by the changing angle of illumination by the Sun as the Moon orbits Earth. Other planets like Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have their own natural satellites ranging widely in size, composition, and characteristics.
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago and has a diameter of 3,476 km. The Moon's surface is composed of rock and dust from meteorite impacts. It has no atmosphere and no water. The phases of the Moon are caused by the changing angle of illumination by the Sun as the Moon orbits Earth. Other planets like Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have their own natural satellites ranging widely in size, composition, and characteristics.
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago and has a diameter of 3,476 km. The Moon's surface is composed of rock and dust from meteorite impacts. It has no atmosphere and no water. The phases of the Moon are caused by the changing angle of illumination by the Sun as the Moon orbits Earth. Other planets like Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have their own natural satellites ranging widely in size, composition, and characteristics.
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago and has a diameter of 3,476 km. The Moon's surface is composed of rock and dust from meteorite impacts. It has no atmosphere and no water. The phases of the Moon are caused by the changing angle of illumination by the Sun as the Moon orbits Earth. Other planets like Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have their own natural satellites ranging widely in size, composition, and characteristics.
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The MOON
MOON
• Natural or artificial bodies that revolve
around larger bodies such as planets are called satellites. • the moons forms about 4.5 billion years ago. • It is the 5th largest natural satellite in the solar system Luna: The Moon of Earth The Surface of the Moon The surfaces of bodies that have no atmospheres and no erosion preserve a record it composed of inner and outer core “ Iron” Mantle and crust( magnesium, oxygen, silicon) it covered of dust and rocky debris' it covered of ocean and magma • Lunar Origins the composition of the moon was similar to that of Earth’s mantle Moonlight
• the moon shines because it reflects light from
the sun • The total amount of sunlight that the moon gets always remains the same • Half of the moon is always in sunlight, just as half of Earth is always in sunlight. But the moon’s period of rotation is the same as its period of revolution. Phases of the Moon • Within a month, the moon’s Earthward face changes from a fully lit circle to a thin crescent and then back to a circle • As the moon revolves around Earth, the amount of sunlight on the side of the moon that faces Earth changes • . When the moon is waxing, the sunlit fraction that we can see from Earth is getting larger. When the moon is waning, the sunlit fraction is getting smaller. The moon statistics Period of rotation 27 days, 7.7 hours Period of revolution 27 days, 7.7 hours Diameter 3,476km Surface temperature -170c to 130c Surface gravity 17% of Earth`s Phases of the Moon ECLIPSE When the shadow of one celestial body falls on another, an eclipse occurs. • A solar eclipse happens when the moon comes between Earth and the sun and the shadow of the moon falls on part of Earth. • A lunar eclipse happens when Earth comes between the sun and the moon and the shadow of Earth falls on the moon. Solar Eclipse • an annular eclipse, the moon is farther from Earth. • The disk of the moon does not completely cover the disk of the sun. A thin ring of the sun shows around the moon’s outer edge. • When the moon is closer to Earth, the moon appears to be the same size as the sun. During a total solar eclipse, the disk of the moon completely covers the disk of the sun Lunar Eclipse
• Earth’s atmosphere bends some of the
sunlight into Earth’s shadow • When sunlight hits the particles in the atmosphere, blue light is filtered out. The Moon’s Tilted Orbit • The moon’s orbit around Earth is tilted— by about 5°—relative to the orbit of Earth around the sun. This degree of tilt is enough to place the moon out of Earth’s shadow for most full moons. It also places Earth out of the moon’s shadow for most new moons The Moons of Other Planets The Moons of Mars -Phobos and Deimos -are small, oddly shaped satellites -very dark -surface materials are much like those of some asteroids—large, rocky bodies in space -One possibility is that these two moons are asteroids that were caught by Mars’s gravity The Moons of Jupiter 60 moons. The four largest moons—Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa—were discovered in 1610 by Galileo. They are known as the Galilean satellites. The largest moon, Ganymede, is even larger than the planet Mercury! The Moons of Saturn 47 moons Most of these moons are small bodies that are made mostly of frozen water but contain some rocky material. At 5,150 km in diameter
Titan is Saturn’s largest moon. Complex
chemicals that occur in small quantities in Titan’s atmosphere are thought to account for Titan’s orange color as seen from space • The Moons of Uranus -27 moons, most of which are small. These moons have been discovered by using spacecraft and orbiting observatories, such as the Hubble Space Telescope. Like the moons of Saturn, Uranus’s largest moons are made of ice and rock and are heavily cratered. The Moons of Neptune
-13 known moons
-The largest moon of Neptune is named Triton. -revolves around Neptune in a retrograde orbit -Triton has a very thin atmosphere made mostly of nitrogen gas. Triton’s surface is mostly frozen nitrogen and methane The Moon of Pluto
Charon, Pluto’s moon, has a period of revolution
that is the same as Pluto’s period of rotation— about 6.4 days.
