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The Moon: Crash Course Astronomy #12
Join Phil for a tour of our capital-M Moon, from surface features, inside to the core, and back in time to theories about its formation.
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Table of Contents
Many Millions of Moons 0:27
Big Impact on Little Earth 3:42
Craters and Maria 2:15
Water on the Moon? H2O Yeah! 8:06
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PHOTOS/VIDEOS
Moon Phase 47.7% [credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio]
The Blue Marble [credit: Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli]
Dramatic Moonset [credit: G.Gillet/European Southern Observatory]
Structure of the Moon: [credit: Kelvin Song via WikiMedia Commons]
Crater Science Investigations: [credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center]
Lunar crater Daealus [credit: NASA]
Mare Humorum [credit: NASA]
Luna 3: [credit: NASA]
Farside!: [credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]
Theia Earth Collision: [credit: Ron Miller, used with permission]
Earth Seen From Early Moon: [credit: Ron Miller, used with permission]
Moon Struck: [credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center]
Tycho: [credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University]
Double crater on the moon: [credit: ESA/SPACE-X (Space Exploration Institute)]
Stream of Craters: [credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University]
Full Moon: [credit: Gregory H. Revera]
Rille on the valley floor, photographic mosaic from Apollo 15: [credit: NASA]
New Views of Lunar Pits: [credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]
Crater Erlanger: [credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]