Introducing: The Moon

This week on Let's Talk About It Tuesdays, CODE313 is bringing knowledge and insight to our blog readers on the various topics of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math! This week's blog is centered around introducing the moon. So without further ado, let's talk about it.

With a diameter nearly as wide as the width of China, the Moon is ranking top five of largest satellites in the solar system. It is actually known to be the fifth largest!

The components of the moon consist of an inner and outer core (which are rich in iron), a mantle, and a crust. As one may notice on the surface of the moon there are various dents, these dents are called craters. Craters are made when meteorites crash into the Moon.

Throughout the months we all have seen the moon in its different phases, but do we know what’s really going on? These moon phases can appear to us as if the moon is actually changing shapes but that’s not the case. Because the light from the Sun is reflected onto the moon, whenever the Moon is orbiting the Earth, the sun is shining on different parts of the Moon. On Earth it looks as if the moon is changing shapes during its phases but that is incorrect. The position and angle the Sun is shining upon the moon makes only certain parts of the moon visible to our eye.

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