It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon

Posted by Brajeshwar on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @01:41PM
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Re:It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon by ThinkBeat on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:32PM (#40147950)

I dont think we are 100% certain what is happening inside the core on our own planet yet.

But it is a lot more complicated than the moon.

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Re:It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon by TMWNN on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @03:57PM (#40148840)

Relevant:

The Moon Revealed: It's a Hollow Spaceship, so who built it and why? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laXhTcko-lg>

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Re:It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon by CatWChainsaw on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @06:34PM (#40150675)

Moonfall is not edutainment.

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Re:It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon by SpaceManNabs on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:54PM (#40148135)

The moon being hot enough for a liquid outer core is insane to me. I wasn't aware that tidal heating was so powerful.

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Re:It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon by gnabgib on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:25PM (#40147882)

And you've posted the source paper twice. The lunar solid inner core and the mantle overturn

Related paper: Vestiges of a lunar ilmenite layer following mantle overturn revealed by gravity data

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Re:It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon by BobbyTables2 on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:38PM (#40147996)

Do we know that cheese cannot be compressed to the density of iron?

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Re:It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon by beretguy on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:43PM (#40148027)

And do we know how ice skates work?

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Re:It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon by Caduceus1 on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:34PM (#40147970)

TL;DR "The Moon is not made of green cheese after all"

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Re:It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon by klyrs on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:37PM (#40147992)

Ugh, that's not very helpful. What color of cheese is it?

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Re:It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon by nashashmi on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:50PM (#40148096)

They didn’t eliminate the possibility of a yellow coloring from the sun

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Re:It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon by chaos0815 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @04:15AM (#40154831)

me reading the title: "Please let it be cheese! Please let it be cheese!"

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