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Space Travel and Exploration question: If the moon did have an atmosphere what would happen to it? Please help us answer this question. ... What if the moon had an atmosphere? If moon had an atmosphere what would happen? What would happen to the atmosphere on the moon? If the moon did have a atmosphere wat would happen?
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During a lunar eclipse, Earth blocks the sun's light that normally lights up the moon. Since we are standing on Earth, what we see is that the moon gets dark. Other kinds of eclipses happen too. ... If a man was walking on the moon and he picked up a rock and threw it really hard, would it go past the moon's atmosphere?;
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The situation on the Moon, where there is no appreciable atmosphere, is different. Every bit of comet debris that rains down on our satellite will hit its surface. ... Great Expectations: the 1998 Leonid meteor shower -- Nov. 10, 1998. The basics of what the Leonids are and what might happen on November 17.
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However, some of the water vapor would form a temporary atmosphere around the Moon, and might condense again to ice in very cold locations, like craters near the pole, which are permanently shaded from sunlight.
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www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Smoon2.htm
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28. What is the lunar regolith, and how was it formed? If the moon had an atmosphere, would it have a regolith? ... 31. What is the greenhouse effect? Name 2 gases responsible for this effect on the Earth. What would happen if these gases were not present in our atmosphere?
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From this entire absence of any special absorption lines, it must be concluded that there is no atmosphere in the moon, a conclusion previously arrived at from the circumstance ... 'I am in this case as people in a civil war, where the uncertainty of what may happen makes them hold intelligence with the opposite party;
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Their best candidate lies not among the planets but in their satellites: Saturn's moon Titan, a world that at first glance seems anything but earthly. Titan lies over a billion kilometres from the Sun and has a temperature of -179 °C. But the temperature is the key;
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A moon with atmosphere ... Titan's size ensures some of them stick around in an atmosphere. Jupiter's moon Io, being so close to its humungous neighbor, has plenty of volcanic activity, but the moon's mass is too small to wield the kind of gravity needed to maintain a hold on the gases that gush out of its insides.
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Scientists Recreate Miniature Model of Moon's Atmosphere ; By Irene Brown; Cape Canaveral Bureau Chief; posted: 02:00 pm ET; 11 August 1999; ... Silicon dioxide is the most prevalent component in moon rocks. On the moon, sodium in the atmosphere is being continually replenished, although exactly how this is occurring...
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www.space.com/science/solarsystem/lunar_atmosphere.html
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