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Originally posted by jra
What kind of "extraordinary feats" are you looking for? Jumping high? They did that. Armstrong jumped up from the ground to the third step of the LM ladder. That's about 5 to 6 feet.
Also, astronauts weighed more than 180lbs. With a fully loaded space suit they were about 300lbs which is about 50lbs on the Moon.
The fact that the dust returned to the ground shows that there is indeed no atmosphere (or not enough of one) to affect the particles of dust. If there were an atmosphere, the dust would have remained suspended in it, like it would on Earth.
You can clearly see that the rover is bouncing.
When you say the outside temperature is already at the boiling point of water. What are you referring to exactly? Were you referring to the surface temperature Moon? If so, how does surface effect the water cooled suits?
The water cooled suits worked by sublimation. The water in the suit is allowed to seep through a pourus metal plate into the vacuum of space, where it freezes onto some coils of tubing. Water that's pumped through the coils is cooled by the ice and the ice sublimates (going directly from a solid to a gas) into the vacuum of space, taking the heat away with it.
J. J. Rennilson1 and D. R. Criswell2
(1) Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., USA
(2) The Lunar Science Institute, Houston, Tex., USA
Received: 13 August 1973
Abstract Each of the Surveyor 7, 6, and 5 spacecraft observed a line of light along its western lunar horizon following local sunset. It has been suggested that this horizon-glow (HG) is sunlight, which is forward-scattered by dust grains (~ 10µ in diam, ~ 50 grains cm–2) present in a tenuous cloud formed temporarily (lap 3 h duration) just above sharp sunlight/shadow boundaries in the terminator zone.
Electrically charged grains could be levitated into the cloud by intense electrostatic fields (> 500 V cm–1) extending across the sunlight/shadow boundaries. Detailed analysis of the HG absolute luminance, temporal decay, and morphology confirm the cloud model. The levitation mechanism must eject 107 more particles per unit time into the cloud than could micro meteorites. Electrostatic transport is probably the dominant local transport mechanism of lunar surface fines.
Originally posted by network dude
If there was moisture and atmosphere, wouldn't there be wind? If there was wind, wouldn't all the footprints and tire tracks get covered with moon dust? I am asking because I really don't know. thanks.
Originally posted by JPhish
according to the alleged moon gravity and atmosphere; Since my vert. on earth is 27 inches, If i were on the moon, I would have a more than a 52.38 inch vert. jump. That means if i jumped strait up and did not bend my legs; there would be more than 4 and a half feet between my heels and the ground. The astronauts aren't getting anywhere close to this in the videos. They're actually not even close to half as high.
Either the videos are fake, the suites are in excess of 300 lbs, the astronauts are in extremely poor shape, OR the data we've been given in regards to the moons atmosphere and gravity is inaccurate.
Originally posted by mikesingh
Originally posted by Shadow_Lord
The Moon has no atmosphere. There is no wind, no weather. It can be easily seen by the lack of erosion on the surface of the Moon.
Lack of erosion? Check out the hills in the back ground. They're smooth and rounded, not sharp and rugged, and this can only happen if the Moon has an atmosphere!
Originally posted by muzzleflash
great thread mike
heres a question i have for those who think the moon cannot have an atmosphere (or that its not possible)
if the moon has enough gravity to collect millions of tons of rocks, why would it not have enough gravity to collect a little bit of gas ?
i mean even a extremely small gravity field would certainly attract a small floating gas particle to it - its just common sense
so your telling me the Moon has enough gravity to pull in Meteorites, but on the Other Hand - not enough gravity to pull in a hydrogen atom? wtf lol
[edit on 12-9-2008 by muzzleflash]
Originally posted by mikesingh
Footprint=moisture=atmosphere!
QED!
Cheers!
Originally posted by malcr
a) Faked to con the public since we did not go to the moon
or
b) Faked to cover up the reason why we went to the moon.
Impossible to say which.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
great thread mike
heres a question i have for those who think the moon cannot have an atmosphere (or that its not possible)
if the moon has enough gravity to collect millions of tons of rocks, why would it not have enough gravity to collect a little bit of gas ?
i mean even a extremely small gravity field would certainly attract a small floating gas particle to it - its just common sense
so your telling me the Moon has enough gravity to pull in Meteorites, but on the Other Hand - not enough gravity to pull in a hydrogen atom? wtf lol
[edit on 12-9-2008 by muzzleflash]
Originally posted by Essan
without any doubt the Moon has no atmosphere to speak of
(Unless you're John Lear who, on my pointing this out to him, proceeded to claim only the 'dark side' of the Moon has an atmosphere! )
JAXA announced a new finding of a gravity anomaly for both the near side and far side of the Moon by using 4-way Doppler observation data from the RSTAR (OKINA) with the main orbiter, the KAGUYA.
Until now, the gravity anomaly of the far side of the Moon has not been understood well. The gravity anomaly, which was obscure before, has been clearly revealed through observations by the Kaguya mission.
For instance, the gravity anomaly of a basin on the far side is found to be characterized by a negative anomaly in a ring like the Apollo basin. On the other hand, the gravity anomaly of the basin on the near side is uniformly positive over the region such as with the Mare Serenitatis.
Thus, the clear difference in gravity anomaly on the near side and the far side has been newly discovered and this fact brings a different story about the structure of the underground and the history of the evolution of the far side and near side of the Moon.
Originally posted by mikesingh
reply to post by weedwhacker
We're talking about the buggy in deep space with zero pressure. And the wheels of the buggy aren't solid wire mesh. They're inflated with Nitrogen. But yes, they have a covering of a flexible mesh shown below: