According to the 12 men that went to the moon - by @bigbear

in #science7 years ago

The Moon is full of debris.

According to the 12 men who went to the moon it stinks. It has a lot of dust and after all the people who have been up there say it sort of smells like something they do not know, but the dust is black like when a fire had occurred.

They were scared that if they took this dust into the lunar it might make fire, so it would combust, but by testing they found out it did not and could bring it back to earth.

It has now been4 decades since someone has been to the moon but the most unbelievable is that there is so much debris on the moon.

When you smack a rock here on earth there is also a smell but it does disappear very quickly yet on the moon it lingers for a very long time.

All the people who went to the moon said they did get the smell, it smelt like charcoal.

But what is worst about the whole debacle is that there is so much rubbish on the moon it is unreal.

We do not just make a mess here on earth we even do it in space.

Here are some pictures that were taken of the mess on the moon.

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Most of that debris is accounted for by the wreckage of spacecraft -- more than 70 vehicles in all, their remains scattered at intervals over the lunar surface. The rest of it, however, is accounted for by smaller pieces of detritus, objects jettisoned because they had served their purpose, and then outlived their utility, to their respective missions: geological tools, bodily waste, solemn monuments to accomplishment and sacrifice. Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong alone left more than 100 items on the Sea of Tranquility, some of those being shovels and rakes, one being the plaque announcing to the world -- and the worlds beyond it -- that "we came in peace for all mankind."

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It feels like yesterday but it has been a long time since someone went to the moon.

Still the trash is there here are pictures from live science.

They say the list has not been updated since 2012 so we do not know what is there now.

Source: Live science

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nice post man, write more thinks like that: FIRST :)

Great post. When Steemit mature then we will have more articles like this one.

nice photograpgs...thanks for sharing

Great post, never thought about this. One-day I hope to make it to the moon 😺

Great post, by this we know the effects of human activities in putter space.

Hi Bigbear. Could you please explain the process of "smelling" the moon. Thanks

It's not that bad tbh, if we ever colonise the moon, it wouldn't take a week to clean it up lol