What new information about the moon did scientists learn from the Apollo mission?
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they found out it rung like a bell for over an hour when they dropped part of the module on it making them suspect that it is a hollow moon.\n\nsome think it's artificial, possibly constructed by some alien race and their base is inside. they monitor us from there...
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Just do a google search.\n\n1956. What happend then\nNasa sent Apollo missions up in space, etc.
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The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal English name other than "the Moon", although it is occasionally called Luna (Latin: moon), or Selene (Greek: moon), to distinguish it from the generic term "moon" (referring to any of the various natural satellites of other planets). Its symbol is a crescent (). The related adjective for the Moon is lunar (again from the Latin root), but this is not found in combination, the combining forms seleno-/-selene (again from the Greek) and -cynthion (from the Lunar deity Cynthia) being used in terms relating to the Moon in various other contexts (e.g. aposelene, selenocentric, pericynthion, etc.).\n\nThe average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,401 kilometres (238,857 mi). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometres (2,160 mi). Reflected sunlight from the Moon's surface reaches Earth in approximately 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light). The Moon is the Solar System's fifth largest moon, both by diameter and mass, ranking behind Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, and Io.\n\nThe Soviet Union's (USSR) Luna program was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned vehicles, or space probes: The first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was Luna 1 in 1959. The first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, also in 1959. The first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 in 1966. The first (unmanned) vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10 in 1966.\n\nThe United States' Apollo program achieved the first (and only) manned missions to the Moon: The first manned mission to orbit the Moon was Apollo 8 in 1968, and the first people to land and walk on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969. The unsuccessful Soviet manned Moon project was abandoned in 1974. The Moon is the only celestial body other than the Earth upon which humans have set foot.\n\nThe two sides of the Moon\nThe Moon is in synchronous rotation, meaning that it keeps nearly the same face turned toward Earth at all times. Small variations resulting from the finite eccentricity of the lunar orbit, termed optical librations, allow up to about 59% of the lunar surface to be visible from Earth. The side of the Moon that faces Earth is called the near side, and the opposite side is called the far side. The far side should not be confused with the dark side, as the unilluminated hemisphere only corresponds to the far side during full moon. In fact, the far side receives (on average) slightly more sunlight than the near side due to lunar eclipse. Spacecraft are cut off from direct radio communication with Earth when behind the Moon due to line-of-sight propagation. One distinguishing feature of the far side is its almost complete lack of maria (singular: mare), which are the dark albedo features.\n\nOrbit and relationship to Earth\n \nA scale model of Earth and the MoonMain articles: The Moon's orbit and Earth and Moon\nSee also: Libration \nThe Moon makes a complete orbit about the Earth approximately once every 27.3 days. It is at present in its 4th quarter, illuminated by ca. -155% . Unlike most satellites of other planets, the Moon orbits near the ecliptic and not the Earth's equatorial plane.\n\nThe Earth and Moon have many physical effects upon one another, including the tides. Most of the tidal effects seen on the Earth are caused by the Moon's gravitational pull, with a smaller contribution from the Sun. Tidal effects result in an increase of the mean Earth-Moon distance, over long periods of time, of about 4 meters per century. As a result of the conservation of angular momentum, the increasing semimajor axis of the Moon is accompanied by a gradual slowing of the Earth's rotation.\n\nThe Earth-Moon system may be considered to be a double planet rather than a planet-moon system.[3] This is due
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HOLD ON EVERYONE!!!!!!!!\n\nIf you search the net you will find information on the entire Moon vibrating for more than 3 hours, 20 minutes suggesting it may be hollow...\n\nWhen the Lunar Module ascent stage of Apollo 12 was sent crashing into the Moon, the seismological equipment recorded the shock waves. The results staggered NASA scientists. The artificially created Moonquake lasted 55 minutes!"\n\n"Furthermore, the KIND of signals recorded by the seismometers shocked scientists. Seismologists were puzzled that the signals started with small waves, gained in size to a peak, and lasted for unbelievably long periods of time. 'The records are utterly different from any obtainable observations on the Earth,' relates one scientist in the highly regarded publication 'Science' (November 12, 1971."\n \n"The seismic records of Apollo 12 proved not to be unique. When the spent 3rd stage of the ill-fated Saturn rocket booster of Apollo 13 was propelled out of Earth orbit into a Moon trajectory, and by radio command crashed into the Moon, it hit with an impact equal to 11 tons of TNT, about 87 miles from the site where the Apollo 12 astronauts set up seismometers."\n \n"The entire Moon vibrated for more than 3 hours, 20 minutes; the vibrations traveling to a depth of 22-25 miles." \n"The Apollo 14's S-IVB was also boosted into a Moon course and, by remote control, crashed into the lunar surface. \n\nA NASA science publication ('Apollo 14: Science at Fra Mauro, p.17') said: 'The Moon reacted like a gong.\nFor about 3 hours it vibrated and these vibrations traveled to a depth of 22-25 miles.' The instruments, by the way, picked up the vibrations even though they were 108 miles away from the Apollo 14 imapct site."
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Here you go.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10
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In addition to the craft listed in the previous answer, the US sent 7 Surveyor spacecraft to the moon to prepare for the manned landings.\nSurveyors 1,3,5,6 and 7 made successful landings and sent data back to earth.  The Apollo 12 mission landed near Surveyor 3 and brought back some parts for examination.
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Yes. Neil Armstrong and others have really walked on the moon.  They even left a mirror on the surface which, over 30 years later, we still use to measure the distance between the earth and the moon.
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We've sent 9 missions to the Moon. Apollo 8 and 10 orbited the Moon only. Apollo 13 had an explosion on the way out, swung around the Moon, and came back to Earth. Apollo 11,12,14,15,16,and 17 landed on the Moon as the Command Modules with one astronaut aboard orbited the Moon. (Apollo 7, the first succesful flight stayed in Earth orbit, and Apollo 9 also stayed in Earth orbit to test the first Lunar Module that was manned.)
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There were six Moon landings. In the Apollo program, Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 landed on the Moon.
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They DID land on the moon. See the sources.
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Try the link below. \nHere's some of what they're up to:\nVery High Resolution Coverage\n\nConcurrent with the global project effort is the task of digitizing and archiving many of the near-side, low altitude photography. LO mission III photographed areas primarily to locate and confirm suitable landing sites for the Apollo program (designated as primary (P) and secondary (S) sites). The most promising landing sites were certified during LO mission V, which also imaged a number of sites of scientific interest. Ground resolutions for both data sets ranged from 1 - 40 m. Status Maps & Data Download page for scanning status.
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Apollo 17\n\nThere were 6 Apollo missions that landed on the Moon: Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. Two missions in each of 1969, 1971 and 1972.\n\nMission: Apollo 11 \nCommander: Armstrong \nCommand Module Pilot: Collins \nLunar Module Pilot: Aldrin\nCommand Module Name: Columbia \nLunar Module Name: Eagle \nLaunch Date: July 16, 1969 \nDuration of Flight: 08d 03h 18m 35s\nFirst manned landing on the Moon, July 20. \n\nMission: Apollo 12 \nCommander: Conrad \nCommand Module Pilot: Gordon  \nLunar Module Pilot: Bean\nCommand Module Name: Yankee Clipper \nLunar Module Name: Intrepid \nLaunch Date: November 14, 1969 \nDuration of Flight: 10d 04h 36m 24s\nFirst precise manned landing on the Moon. Recovered part of Surveyor 3 probe. \n\nApollo 13 was launched April 11, 1970 but the oxygen tank exploded en route, forcing cancellation of the landing and the mission to be aborted.\n\nMission: Apollo 14 \nCommander: Shepard \nCommand Module Pilot: Roosa  \nLunar Module Pilot: Mitchell\nCommand Module Name: Kitty Hawk \nLunar Module Name: Antares \nLaunch Date: January 31, 1971 \nDuration of Flight: 09d 00h 01m 58s\nAlan Shepard, the sole astronaut of the Mercury MR-3 mission - and thus the first American in space - walks (and plays golf) on the Moon. \n\nMission: Apollo 15 \nCommander: Scott \nCommand Module Pilot: Worden  \nLunar Module Pilot: Irwin \nCommand Module Name: Endeavour \nLunar Module Name: Falcon \nLaunch Date: July 26, 1971 \nDuration of Flight: 12d 07h 11m 53s\nFirst mission with the Lunar Rover vehicle. \n\nMission: Apollo 16 \nCommander: Young \nCommand Module Pilot: Mattingly  \nLunar Module Pilot: Duke \nCommand Module Name: Casper \nLunar Module Name: Orion \nLaunch Date: April 16, 1972 \nDuration of Flight: 11d 01h 51m 05s \nFirst landing in the lunar highlands. \n\nMission: Apollo 17 \nCommander: Cernan \nCommand Module Pilot: Evans  \nLunar Module Pilot: Schmitt\nCommand Module Name: America \nLunar Module Name: Challenger \nLaunch Date: December 7, 1972 \nDuration of Flight: 12d 13h 51m 59s \nFinal Apollo lunar mission, first night launch, only mission with a professional geologist.
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They aren't. My brother works at the Keck telescope in Hawai'i, which is run by NASA, and they looked at the moon recently to get some information about possible landing sites for the new missions. But there's not much call to look at the moon any more, since we can get much better pictures from sending spaceprobes there.
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http://www.cwo.com/~lunarlab/  this is a "moon" site.Too many questions there in your question.
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The found moon rocks, they spoke in code because the cold war was still on and we didn't want the Russians getting valuable information for their space program.  No reports of other crafts, but on an earlier mission one astronaut thought he might be witnessing tiny craft, but it was actually the sun reflecting off the icy urine his own capsule had just discharged
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Stop drinking the kool-aid. Watch the tapes from the moon-landing. All of that detail could not have been faked in the 60s. Also, what about the moon rocks that were recovered?
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well  sence its a school report   but all information concerning   the  first man on the moon to  first trip into outspace  ,  the first wome  to ever  be  in a space shuttle that  did not make  it cause the shuttle  blew  up  right after taking  off  , put the infoarmation bout the training and  long  hours  of weightlessness they go through  etc .  put names date  pictures etc , how many attempts were made  before  a sucessfull alunch was made etc