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Sunday, December 9, 2007

4 BILLION YEAR OLD MAN IN MOON!!!!!

Wondering on the caption............it is just like a man's face sculpted in moon.
The plains of solidified lava that give the moon its quirky human-like face were created more than 4 billion years ago, a new study says.
This evidence came from an unearthly silvery-grey stone that blasted off from the face of the moon, perhaps by an impacting asteroid, and was then captured by earth's gravity, prompting to fall to ground in Botswana.
In 1999 march, local people near the village of Kuke, in the grasslands of the Kalahari Nature Reserve, found the 13 kilogram remnant of this roving rock.They later sold it to meteorite hunters.The nature of the chemicals puts the rock into the category of a mare basalt.
This is lava that flowed out smoothly onto the lunar surface before solidifying, forming darker plains that early skywatchers mistakenly took for mare(seas) .A new analysis of fragments of phosphate in this lava puts the rocks at whopping old age of 4.35 billion years.
This suggests that this mare-type volcanism must have occurred, just after the first stage of lunar crust formation.
Mare volcanism must have overlapped with a later stage of volcanism, evidence of which was found in rocks picked up by the Apollo missions.
The 'man in the moon' comprises its eyes made of the Mare Imbrium and Mare Serenitatis, a nose consisting of Sinus Aestuum, while the Mare Nubium and Mare Cognitum provide the mouth.These account for nearly seventh of the lunar surface, mostly on the part of the moon's side visible from earth.

1 comments:

Unknown said...

And now they suspect there's water on the moon as well!

I won't be surprised if the next generation would start honeymooning.. on the moon! (Pun intended) ;)