It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon(sciencealert.com)

18 pointsby Brajeshwarvor 2 Jahren11 comments

https://www.sciencealert.com/its-official-scientists-finally-confirmed-whats-inside-the-moon

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

gnabgibvor 2 Jahren

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781293

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39971055

[deleted]vor 2 Jahren

ThinkBeatvor 2 Jahren

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.

Caduceus1vor 2 Jahren

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

klyrsvor 2 Jahren

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

nashashmivor 2 Jahren

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

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

beretguyvor 2 Jahren

And do we know how ice skates work?

https://xkcd.com/1867/

[deleted]vor 2 Jahren

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

TMWNNvor 2 Jahren

Relevant:

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

Moonfall is not edutainment.