How did the Moon form? | 5 things we learnt from the Apollo Moon Landings

Saturday 20th July 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing #apollo50 #apollo50th #apollo11. Whilst this was one giant leap for mankind, for me it's the scientific legacy of the Apollo missions that are so impressive. So here are 5 things we now know because of the experiments done by the Apollo missions:

00:00 0 Introduction
01:54 - the distance to the Moon
04:08 - the structure inside the Moon
05:51 - what the solar wind is made of
08:43 - what the Moon is made of
12:33 - how the Moon was formed

In particular, all the results from Apollo built up to overhaul our thinking of how the Moon formed.

Explore more images of the Apollo landing sites taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/157

Scientific journal articles mentioned:
Lunar Laser Reflector Experiment description - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/182/4109/229.full.pdf

Nakamura, Latham & Dorman (1982) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1982LPSC...13..117N

Geiss et al. (2003) - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023%2FB%3ASPAC.0000023409.54469.40.pdf
O'Meara et al. (2001) - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/320579/pdf

Daly (1946) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3301051.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Af12e8b4ffb6f31d7442b420d22df9562
Hartmann & Davis (1975) - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0019103575900706?via%3Dihub
Cameron & Ward (1976) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1976LPI.....7..120C
Nakajima & Stevenson (2014) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.3036.pdf

'The Big Splat: or how our Moon came to be' by Dana Mackenzie is the book that made me want to be a scientist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DNL0M74/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_klXlDbH97SEXD

My crescent moon necklace is from Purelei: https://us.purelei.com/products/paua-pink-necklace

My book 'Space: The 10 Things You Should Know' is coming out September 5th! You can pre-order the hardback (UK only), e-book or audiobook here: http://bit.ly/SpaceDrBecky

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Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching galaxies and supermassive black holes at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.

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