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Exploring the Moon: A Quiz on Lunar Knowledge

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Moon, its features, and its cultural representation in film. It covers various topics from the Apollo program to notable movies like 'Moon'.

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1 Who played Overmeyers in the movie Moon?

2 Long-lived instrument stations, including heat flow probes, seismometers, and magnetometers, were installed at the ________, 14, 15, 16, and 17 landing sites.

3 What does the following picture show?  Lunar crater Daedalus on the Moon's far side   Astronaut Buzz Aldrin photographed by Neil Armstrong during the first Moon landing on 20 July 1969   Map of the Moon by Johannes Hevelius from his Selenographia (1647), the first map to include the libration zones.   Schematic of the Earth-Moon system (without a consistent scale)

4 Who played Nanny in the movie Moon?

5 Who played Tess Bell in the movie Moon?

6 The ________ spectrometer on Lunar Prospector indicated the presence of excess hydrogen at the lunar poles, which is likely to have been caused by the presence of water ice in the upper few meters of the regolith within permanently shadowed craters.

7 The exact abundance of water was not determined, but the team believed it could be as high as 1,000 ________ in the top layer of Lunar soil.

8 Who played Sam Bell in the movie Moon?

9 One source of its atmosphere is outgassingā€”the release of gases such as radon that originate by ________ processes within the crust and mantle.

10 The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the fifth largest satellite in the ________.

šŸ’” Interesting Facts

  • according to an old Polish legend, the sorcerer Pan Twardowski was the first man on the Moon.
  • in Chinese mythology, Wu Gang had to chop down a tree on the moon that always healed itself, forcing him to keep trying forever.
  • in the indie video game Clean Asia!, the eyes of all humans leave their bodies, fly to the moon, develop weapons, and attack the human race, taking over several countries.
  • there were three more cancelled Apollo missions planned to land on the Moon after Apollo 17.
  • a small silicon disc containing goodwill messages from 73 countries was left on the Moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts.
  • Kordylewski clouds are large concentrations of dust that orbit Earth at the distance of the Moon.
  • NASA conducts field trials, called Desert RATS, for new technologies for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon, Mars, or beyond.
  • Carpenter is a lunar impact crater located in the northern part of the Moon, causing it to appear oval in shape when in fact it's nearly circular.
  • Kordylewski clouds are large concentrations of dust that orbit Earth at the distance of the Moon.
  • 17th-century philosopher Cesare Cremonini refused to look at the Moon's mountains through Galileo's telescope, believing that Aristotle had proven the Moon was a perfect sphere.
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