‘Like the Wild West’: Who owns the moon and what’s up there?
American flags, footprints, broken spacecraft, some plutonium, a couple of golf balls, a bible and a surprisingly large amount of human faeces. This is what humanity has left behind on the moon.
Of course, scientists will tell you the moon is more important than any of that. Without its pull, life on Earth may not even be possible to begin with.owns the moon – having filed the paperwork at his local council 40 years ago – and all these big lofty plans to develop it will need his sign-off. This kind of ancient, cataclysmic “fender bender”, as astrophysicist Professor Jonti Horner at the University of Queensland calls it, is the leading explanation for why our moon is so big compared to other moons we’ve seen ; and why it’s covered in a bright, glittery rock .
In recent years, as technology improves, NASA has been releasing more moon rocks from deep freeze storage for study. “The fact that we’re interpreting the entire history of the Moon from a refrigerator-sized” crop of samples analysed so far has “undoubtedly been biasing our conclusions,” says Dyar, who is the lead on one of the new rock studies.
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