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The amount of sunlight falling on horizontal areas near the poles depends on the altitude angle of the Sun. So the apt question to ask is whether this second novel by the author of The Lovely Bones is, as touted in its extravagant publicity, literary fiction, or closer to a detective novel? In some places, this lunar regolith is just three metres deep, while in others parts it has settled into drifts some 20 metres deep. The resulting tidal force is stretching and squashing Earth, resulting in the water bulging on the two opposite sides of the planet.

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The Moon does not currently have a global dipolar magnetic field and only has crustal magnetization likely acquired early in its history when a dynamo was still operating. h] However, because the Earth-Moon system moves at the same time in its orbit around the Sun, it takes slightly longer, 29.This proximity to Earth has given it immeasurable cultural significance and means it plays a key role in Earth's tides.

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It is smaller than Mercury and considerably larger than the largest dwarf planet of the Solar System, Pluto. These extreme conditions for example are considered to make it unlikely for spacecraft to harbor bacterial spores at the Moon longer than just one lunar orbit. Crystallization of this magma ocean would have created a mafic mantle from the precipitation and sinking of the minerals olivine, clinopyroxene, and orthopyroxene; after about three-quarters of the magma ocean had crystallized, lower-density plagioclase minerals could form and float into a crust atop.The Earth and the Moon form the Earth-Moon satellite system with a shared center of mass, or barycenter.

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The gravitational attraction that Earth and the Moon (as well as the Sun) exert on each other manifests in a slightly greater attraction on the sides closest to each other, resulting in tidal forces. Natural development Artist's depiction of the Moon as it might have appeared in Earth's sky after the Late Heavy Bombardment around 4 billion years ago, when its orbit was half as close to Earth and it appeared 2. These maria formed when large impacts on the far side of the Moon heated up low lying layers of its crust on the near side. The Moon originally rotated at a faster rate, but early in its history its rotation slowed and became tidally locked in this orientation as a result of frictional effects associated with tidal deformations caused by Earth. Another examination of the LCROSS data showed the amount of detected water to be closer to 155±12kg (342±26lb).At its very centre, the Moon has a solid iron core with a temperature of between 1,327°C and 1427°C. Water vapor has been detected by Chandrayaan-1 and found to vary with latitude, with a maximum at ~60–70degrees; it is possibly generated from the sublimation of water ice in the regolith. If you looked in the right places on the Moon, you would find pieces of equipment, American flags, and even a camera left behind by astronauts.

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