A popular question: Why does the moon become red?The answer may be like this

Author:Astronomy online Time:2022.08.26

If we can always rely on what we can rely on, then the moon. Siniors day and night, but long -term service lunar satellites have been changed in a strange way we have never thought about. This question was revealed, and now we are asking a new question: Why does the moon become red? Are you sensitive to these facts? Are you constantly curious?

Moon mineral surveying and mapping is a instrument designed by NASA Astronomy's Jet Promoting Laboratory, which is composed of the moon. The instrument is also called a spectrometer. It can be used to draw a map, or it can be marked with the planet or the accurate chemical component of the satellite. The action principle of the spectrometer is that different ingredients on the moon can emit different wavelengths of light displayed on the electronic spectrum. Therefore, the spectrometer can accurately record these waves, and can provide some special examples that we have seen. In fact, in 2009, this mass spectrometer first detected water on the moon.

In 2020, scientists re -tested some past data on the spectrometer. These data were originally collected as a part of the survey 12 years ago, when the instrument was also installed on Indian Aerospace No. 1. After another observation, scientists from the University of Hawaii discovered that things were completely impossible in the past. Especially rust appeared at the pole of the month. Specifically, the instrument has discovered the red iron ore, which is an iron oxide produced by iron and water and oxygen, leaving the rust left.

The problem is that there should be no sufficient water and oxygen to produce rust to form on the moon, so how did it produce? This may be very connected with our planet, the earth. The most straightforward theory is that at least 2.5 billion years ago, plants on the earth produced oxygen, and the moon also absorbed some oxygen. We can find evidence on the isotopes of oxygen on the moon because they are also from the earth. The main point of view is that when the moon passes through the magnetic tail of the earth (the trajectory left by the earth by the earth), it will be at least affected by the oxygen of our world.

However, there is still no complete solution to the mystery. Regarding water, we still know very little. Although we know that there are ice on the moon, the tesmeter found that the distance between the rusty red iron ore and the sediment is not enough. The best theory is that the required water comes from the dust. These space dust reflects hundreds of billions of years with the moon's surface in some way, thereby forming water, so we can find the trace of water through dust. In addition to the oxygen obtained by the moon from the earth, the iron rust is formed for the iron surface of the moon, creating an inevitable condition.

But we still have a long way to go to see these effects with the naked eye. If you go out and look up at the moon tonight, you may not notice that there are red spots on the top and bottom of the moon, because if there is no minerology mapper, we don't know what these are. In fact, rusty bacteria can be formed in just a few days, and only these days will be accumulated into billions of years to form this interesting phenomenon (red spots on the top and bottom of the moon).

This is by no means the first time we have seen this in the solar system, such as: iron oxide gives the color of Mars and makes the planet red. Therefore, if the evolution of the red iron ore on the moon is an inevitable process, then it should thank it for the rich green plant life and a large amount of oxygen produced by plants. One day, the surface of the moon will look a bit like the surface of Mars. It is not like many long -term ecological or atmospheric changes. It is something that humans do whatever they do.

Even if human activities will severely destroy the earth's environment, even if human beings will eventually move towards extinction, it will not change this incident. Some people think that giving enough time, the earth's environment will recover from itself, and will continue to produce oxygen, so its magnetic tail will always be maintained, and the moon will slowly form the conditions of gradually rusting. Of course, it will take a long time (billions) to achieve the current forecast, but people think that Mars is not always red. According to previous trusted studies, our neighbors of our planet, Mars, had a gray, charcoal appearance a long time ago, all of which means that we should not worry too much about the lunar rust. Like bad things.

(On the moon) The generation of iron oxide is a natural process. Our discovery today does not mean that the moon is already destroyed to some extent. Unlike old bicycles abandoned in the rain, it is also different from hinges that are rusted and abandoned. The moon will not be cracking because of rust, it just changes synchronously with other planets in the solar system. What's more, the amount of existing iron oxide on the moon is so insignificant -we can only observe its existence through a spectrometer. When the rust on the moon is obviously that we can see on the earth, who knows what the earth has undergone a change? However, if it is more amazing and interesting than the scarlet and horrible phenomenon of the red moon, the following is a good news: you don't need to wait for thousands of years to see the wonder of the red moon.

In fact, we can see the red moon regularly -but this "red moon" is not the "red moon". Every time the monthly eats, an optical phenomenon called Ruili scattering will cause the moon to show red. This is the "blood moon" phenomenon that people know. The bloody moon formed by Ryli scattering has nothing to do with iron oxide and iron rust, which is related to how light reaches our eyes. The gorgeous scene of the redness of the sky at dusk is also inseparable from the role of Ryli scattered. Although in many civilizations, Bloody Moon is often regarded as a sign of doom, but in fact it is harmless, only showing the arrival of the month of the night. Bloody Moon will also appear with other lunar events. When the full moon, the moon is just in the nearby place, that is, when it is closest to the earth (about 221,500 miles), we can observe the "Super Moon"; when the full moon is full, the moon is just at the distance. "Moon Moon". If two different lunar events occur at the same time as bloody and micro -moon, we can see "Blood Moon". By the coming of autumn equinox, the same day and night, we can observe the "harvest month" -the full moon to the closest autumn equinox. The reason why the moon on this day is called "harvesting moon" because the farmers usually continue to work under the shining of the special moonlight that night, and harvest the fruits of the work of the year until late at night.

Most of the full moon is called, such as the full moon after the month (the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox) is called "hunting month", and the full moon in January is called "wolf moon", and so on. In 2019, the world has witnessed the rare "Super Blood Wolf Moon" wonders. This is the phenomenon that can only be seen at the full moon in January to the nearly place. Similarly, "Blue Moon" also refers to a monthly age, not the color of the moon itself will turn blue. Most of the time, Lan Yue refers to the second full moon in one month. Because the monthly transport cycle is only 28 days, it is shorter than the previous month of the calendar, so this phenomenon occasionally occurs. This is the source of the proverb "Once in a Blue Moon, because this phenomenon is very rare.

But from the earth, the appearance of the moon can also become blue, but this phenomenon is not due to the monthly transport cycle, but caused by the environment of the earth itself. When the atmosphere contains a large amount of fragments, the sky will be stained with different colors, such as after the volcanic eruption or after a forest fire, the color of the sky will change -and sometimes this color is blue. For example, in 1883, a large -scale volcanic eruption that could be loaded into the history of the history, Krakato, eruption. After the volcanic eruption, there were reports that because there were too many volcanic ash in the sky, the moon seemed here looked blue.

After the volcano eruption of St. Helens in 1980, there was also a record of turning the moon. And sometimes, even if it is not blue, the human eyes will treat the usually moonlight as blue, which is due to the Purkinje phenomenon. This phenomenon pointed out that in the weak light environment, it is like at night, compared to red and yellow, human eyes are better at seeing blue or green light. But in short, the moon is slowly "rusting" is not a bad thing. Even if the earth is the ultimate cause of this phenomenon, even the rare phenomenon is caused by the usual astronomical environment. There are some other explanations about why the moon looks like another color, but those are all about why the moon becomes red.

Astronomy (from ancient Greek τρονο τρονο τρονο μία (Astronomía), which means science that studies the law of stars) is a science studying objects and related phenomena in the sky. It uses the knowledge of mathematics, physics, and chemistry to explain their origin and evolution. The objects to be studied in this discipline include planets, satellites, stars, nebulas, galaxies, comets, and so on. Related phenomena include supernova explosion, gamma rays, star -like body, Yaochang body, pulse star, and cosmic microwave background radiation. More popular, astronomy research began everything outside the earth atmosphere. Cosmic science is a branch of astronomy, and it is a science that treats the entire universe as a whole.

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