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The Moon Has a Fluid Outer Core
mapkinase writes with this excerpt from Discovery News:
"The Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment recorded motions of the ground from moonquakes and other activities generating sound waves until late 1977. The network was too limited to directly monitor waves bouncing off or scattered by the moon's core, leaving scientists dependent on more indirect techniques, such as measuring minute gravitational changes, to craft a picture of the moon's interior. Those models turned out to be pretty accurate, says lead scientist Renee Weber, with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The new research confirms the existence of a solid inner core and liquid outer layer, similar to Earth's. Unlike Earth, the moon also has a partly melted, mushy layer over that."
More like a chocolate covered cherry.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
I know I'm not suposed to engage crazy people. But most things in the solar system look unique, its not that big a place, and there are other grey lumps of rock and dirt here.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Most "American cheese" isn't really, legally speaking, cheese.
I say this as an American that loves cheese
I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
Hail to the Great Spaghetti Monster in the Sky, he hath done a greate jobbe!