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THE MOON

PHASES OF THE MOON Last quarter Waning
gibbous Line of sight
Waning crescent

Full Moon
Earth
Sunlight
New Moon Waxing gibbous
Waxing
Orbital path of Moon Dust on surface 6 in (15 cm) thick
crescent First quarter
Surface cratered
due to impact of
FAR SIDE OF THE MOON Rocky crust covered with loose regolith (soil) large meteorites

Mantle 600 miles (1,000 km)
thick Mach
Region where moonquakes originate

Semisolid outer core

D’Alembert Avogadro
Campbell
Compton
Wiener
Fabry

Seyfert
Joliot
Hertzsprung
Fleming Korolev
M A R E
Crust of near side
M O S C O V I E N S E
Mendeleev 100 miles (60 km) thick
Small inner core
Keeler
with a central
temperature of
M A R E 2,700°F (800°C)
S M I T H I I
Pasteur Crust of far side
60 miles (100 km) thick
Hilbert
Galois
Doppler
M A R E
M A R E
I N G E N I I
Tsiolkovsky
O R I E N T A L E
Montes Rook
Milne
Montes Cordillera
Gagarin
Jules Verne Mendel
Roche Apollo
Van de Graaff
Planck
Schrodinger Zeeman
Von Kármàn Leibnitz Antoniadi
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