• Question: What is the moons main material and if you know what is it and what does it do? ( :

    Asked by spazzheadshot to Adam, Geoff, Rob, Sheila, Suzie on 20 Mar 2011 in Categories: . This question was also asked by harooney.
    • Photo: Geoff McBride

      Geoff McBride answered on 18 Mar 2011:

      Rock no suprise it’s called anorthositic rock made of oxygen, silicon, iron, magnesium, calcium and aluminum. The SMART-1 spacecraft I worked on decovered traces of calcium.

    • Photo: Suzie Sheehy

      Suzie Sheehy answered on 18 Mar 2011:

      I could look this up on wikipedia like you should probably do, but I’m not going to because I don’t think that’s the reason for having this competition!
      I hope you’ve read my profile, maybe you’d like to ask me a question that is more about what I work on… I’m not a space scientist (although I realise the zone is called space) but would love to answer questions about things I DO know about!?

    • Photo: Adam Tuff

      Adam Tuff answered on 18 Mar 2011:

      The moon is basically made of the same stuff as our earth – in fact the moon may have once been a part of our earth! However it is much less dense – and we’re not exactly sure HOW similar the composition is to Earth. Good question!

    • Photo: Sheila Kanani

      Sheila Kanani answered on 20 Mar 2011:

      Rocks! We know this because of the moon rocks that the Apollo astronauts brought back with them when they actually visited the Moon. I have a bit in a drawer in my desk 🙂

      The Moon is made from iron and minerals called olivine, clinopyroxene, and orthopyroxene and the crust is mostly anorthosite.

      What do you mean “what does it do”? Do you mean what does the Moon do? Or what do these rocks do?

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