Modern Mysteries of the Moon What We Still Don’t Know About Our Lunar Companion /

• Main Author: Foster, Vincent S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Planetology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

There are still many questions that remain about the Moon. From concentric craters to lunar swirls, water vapor and lunar reverberations on impact, Foster collects it all for a fascinating tour that will illuminate the backyard observer's understanding of this easily viewed, yet also imperfectl...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Donut Craters
• Lunar Transient Phenomena
• A Hollow Moon?
• The Big Splat
• Problems with Plato
• A Dry World?- Lunar Graffiti
• Lumpy Gravity
• Surprising Radioactivity
• Paved with Glass
• Tale of a Tail
• Volcanoes
• Moonquakes
• Disappearing Magnetic Field
• Two Faced
• Aristarchus Plateau
• Lunar Atmosphere
• Earth’s Second Moon
• Laplace’s Puzzle
• Future missions to the Moon
• A Younger Moon
• The Key to Colonizing the Moon
• Unlocking the Door to Lunar Mining
• Trouble with Tourism
• Secret to Nuke the Moon
• Index.