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On the sunny side it was hot, on the shady side cold.

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Does the moon have a hot middle like the earth?

No. The Apollo astronauts left instruments to measure the temperature deep below the surface of the moon. All readings indicate a cold moon. The Apollo 17 astronauts found volcanic material, indicating that the moon was hot when it formed, but quickly cooled.


Which planet can astronauts visit the least?

All of them, as of right now. The only places we can go at the moment is the moon. The other planets are just way too hot, or way too cold for our suits.


If there a full moon is it cold or hot in earth?

There's no connection between any moon phase and any pattern to the weather on earth.


You often associate geysers with hot springs and volcanoes but one of this planets moon has cold geysers Which planet is it?

The planet's moon with cold geysers is Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. Cold geysers on Enceladus are primarily caused by tidal heating, where gravitational interactions with Saturn and other moons create friction and heat within the moon's core, allowing water and ice to spout out from its surface.


What makes the volcanoes on the moons different from the volcanoes on Earth?

For one thing, the moon has a cold core, and a thick (60-78km) crust. The lack of a molten core means the moon stopped producing volcanoes about 3 billion years ago. The few it did produce look like very old craters now. The Apollo 17 astronauts found volcanic material that was thrown out by the impact of Shorty Crater, which just happened to expose an ancient volcanic glassy deposit. The main reason the Apollo 17 astronauts landed where they did was because Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden saw volcanic vents in the area while in lunar orbit 60 miles above the surface. NASA scientists were looking for evidence of volcanism on all the moon landeings. Apollo 17 was the only mission to return any volcanic material. The volcanic material came from a volcanic vent about 70 feet below the surface. The astronauts immediately knew the soil was volcanic was because it was orange and black. The orange color came from the soil being oxidized, which can only happen in a volcano. The black soil was pulverized pumice. Pumice is plentiful around earth's volcanoes. The volcanic material exposed by Shorty crater was billions of years old, while Shorty itself is only a few million years old. The earth still as a hot molten core that produces volcanoes every day. The basic difference between earth and lunar volcanoes is when the top blows off a volcano here on earth, the debris doesn't travel as far as it does on the moon. Also, the older volcanoes here on earth tend to erode a lot faster than the ones on the moon.

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Does the moon have a hot middle like the earth?

No. The Apollo astronauts left instruments to measure the temperature deep below the surface of the moon. All readings indicate a cold moon. The Apollo 17 astronauts found volcanic material, indicating that the moon was hot when it formed, but quickly cooled.


What food do astronauts take to the moon?

Different astronauts took different food to the moon depending on their dietary and nutritional needs. All the food taken to space during Apollo was freeze dried. The astronaut had to reconstitute the food with hot water in order to eat their meal. The Apollo 16 astronauts took extra Tang to the moon to combat the potassium deficiencies encountered by the Apollo 15 astronauts.


Why can't humans live on the moon?

Well, actually people HAVE lived on the moon- for a short time, with a lot of equipment. They were called astronauts. There is no air, no water, and extreme temperatures (hot and cold)


Did Apollo 14 leave anything on the moon?

he left a hot dog


Is Air hot or cold on the moon?

the moon actually has no air on the moon.


Which planet can astronauts visit the least?

All of them, as of right now. The only places we can go at the moment is the moon. The other planets are just way too hot, or way too cold for our suits.


Is the inside of the moon as hot as the inside of the earth?

No, the inside of the moon is solid and cold.


Why moon light is cool while sun light is hot?

because the moon is cold and the sun is hot which affects their temperatures


What is the tematru of the moon?

the temutre of the moon is really hot in the day and so cold at night.


Why does the moon get so cold and so hot?

It gets hot and cold. Hot because there is no atmosphere so the sun's rays get in much easily. Cold because there is not atmosphere to trap the heat and don't forget the moon rotates so it still has day and night.


Why does the moon get so hot in the day and so cold at night?

The moon gets hot during the day because of the sun's rays hitting it. The moon gets cold at night because there is no atmosphere to hold in the heat from the day.


How cold or hot does the moon gets?

-171 c to 111 c