Help! My Heart is Full of Pony! - Science · 4:50am May 7th, 2016
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The big dark spots on the surface of our moon that give it the appearance of having a face were caused by massive pools of moon lava that cooled billions of years ago. When we first started sending satellites up there to take pictures of the "darkside," we expected to find similar dark blotches. There were none. It was a uniform shade of white, pocked with regular old craters. No face. No Mare in the Moon.
Current data suggests that the "darkside" of the moon has a crust that is 40 miles thicker than the side that we can see, so very little moon lava ever made it to the surface. No lava, no face. After decades of mystery, recent computer simulations doing intensely complex moon math have figured out the most likely reason for this major difference between the dark and the light side of the moon.
Once upon a time, there was not one moon, but two - a big moon, and a little moon - both born of the same collision with Earth. Over the course of billions of years, the two moons fused, creating the wonder we see today.
So when you look up at the night sky, and see those dark patches (that really do look like the Mare in the Moon), remember: that imprint is only there because a long, long time ago, a big sibling imprisoned a little sibling there.
-Sprocket
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An interesting theory. Would be neat if there really was an alicorn princess stick up there, seeing our dreams and fears.
For realsies?
Where'd you read of that?
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I saw it on the Discovery Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJkVegBsNyE
I know it's just pop science, but I'm not writing an academic paper on it. The source was good enough for a pony observation. :P
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Would be neat if there really was an alicorn princess stick up there, seeing our dreams and fears.
What do you mean if?
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You should go up there and see if she is really there. I want an autograph photo. Or a horse shoe! That would be cool.