The Moon: Crash Course Astronomy #12
Join Phil for a tour of our capital-M Moon, from surface features, inside to the core, and back in time to theories about its formation. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace: http://www.s...
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This episode of Crash Course is brought to you by Square Space. The Moon is pretty hard to miss when it’s up at night. It’s big and bright and really very pretty. Even cooler, it’s the closest astronomical object in the Universe to us, and arguably, the one we know best. I hate to break it to you, but we humans are pretty egotistical. Even though there are over 160 known moons of decent size in our solar system, we call ours THE Moon, with a capital M, like it’s the only one, or the most important one. And I guess to us it is the most important one. It’s only the fifth largest moon in the solar system in absolute size, but compared to Earth it’s pretty big; fully a quarter of the diameter of the planet. That’s a way bigger ratio than for...
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This episode of Crash Course is brought to you by Square Space. The Moon is pretty hard to miss when it’s up at night. It’s big and bright and really very pretty. Even cooler, it’s the closest astronomical object in the Universe to us, and arguably, the one we know best. I hate to break it to you, but we humans are pretty egotistical. Even though there are over 160 known moons of decent size in our solar system, we call ours THE Moon, with a capital M, like it’s the only one, or the most important one. And I guess to us it is the most important one. It’s only the fifth largest moon in the solar system in absolute size, but compared to Earth it’s pretty big; fully a quarter of the diameter of the planet. That’s a way bigger ratio than for...
