It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon (sciencealert.com) 18 points by Brajeshwar 2y ago ↗ HN
[–] gnabgib 2y ago ↗ And you've posted the source paper twice. The lunar solid inner core and the mantle overturnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781293Related paper: Vestiges of a lunar ilmenite layer following mantle overturn revealed by gravity datahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39971055 [–] [deleted] 2y ago ↗ (comment deleted)
[–] ThinkBeat 2y ago ↗ I dont think we are 100% certain what is happening inside the core on our own planet yet.But it is a lot more complicated than the moon.
[–] Caduceus1 2y ago ↗ TL;DR "The Moon is not made of green cheese after all" [–] klyrs 2y ago ↗ Ugh, that's not very helpful. What color of cheese is it? [–] nashashmi 2y ago ↗ They didn’t eliminate the possibility of a yellow coloring from the sun
[–] BobbyTables2 2y ago ↗ Do we know that cheese cannot be compressed to the density of iron? [–] beretguy 2y ago ↗ And do we know how ice skates work?https://xkcd.com/1867/ [–] [deleted] 2y ago ↗ (comment deleted)
[–] SpaceManNabs 2y ago ↗ The moon being hot enough for a liquid outer core is insane to me. I wasn't aware that tidal heating was so powerful.
[–] TMWNN 2y ago ↗ Relevant:The Moon Revealed: It's a Hollow Spaceship, so who built it and why? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laXhTcko-lg> [–] CatWChainsaw 2y ago ↗ Moonfall is not edutainment.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 37.2 ms ] threadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781293
Related paper: Vestiges of a lunar ilmenite layer following mantle overturn revealed by gravity data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39971055
But it is a lot more complicated than the moon.
https://xkcd.com/1867/
The Moon Revealed: It's a Hollow Spaceship, so who built it and why? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laXhTcko-lg>