How did the Moon form? | 5 things we learnt from the Apollo Moon Landings

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Saturday 20th July 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing #apollo50 #apollo50th #apollo11. Whilst this was one giant leap for mankind, for me it's the scientific legacy of the Apollo missions that are so impressive. So here are 5 things we now know because of the experiments done by the Apollo missions: 00:00 0 Introduction 01:54 - the distance to the Moon 04:08 - the structure inside the Moon 05:51 - what the solar wind is made of 08:43 - what the Moon is made of 12:33 - how the Moon was formed In particular, all the results from Apollo built up to overhaul our thinking of how the Moon formed. Explore more images of the Apollo landing sites taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/157 Scientific journal articles mentioned: Lunar Laser Reflector Experiment description - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/182/4109/229.full.pdf Nakamura, Latham & Dorman (1982) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1982LPSC...13..117N Geiss et al. (2003) - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023%2FB%3ASPAC.0000023409.54469.40.pdf O'Meara et al. (2001) - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/320579/pdf Daly (1946) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3301051.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Af12e8b4ffb6f31d7442b420d22df9562 Hartmann & Davis (1975) - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0019103575900706?via%3Dihub Cameron & Ward (1976) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1976LPI.....7..120C Nakajim

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