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Inside the Moon contain
a hard outer crust, rigid outer mantle and semi rigid inner mantle
and a core inside the moon that is cooler than interior of Earth.
As moon is very small it gives out it's heat quickly. The ratio of
surface to volume in moon is also very small compare to Earth. In
forming of moon and Earth, the moon cooled much more than earth.

Crust:
Surface of moon is dry,
dusty and rocky. The thickness of rock crust is about 37 miles (60
km) on the side face to Earth andit is in the opposite side. This
thickness is about 62 miles (100 km)
NASA'S Apollo mission
says the formation of moon occurred about 4.3 billion years ago
(about 60 million years after formation of Earth).
The rocks in moon and
Earth are similar but Moon's rock have more aluminum and titanium
according to NASA'S analysis.
There are minerals
Armalcolite (named for three astronauts on NASA'S Apoll 11: Neil
ARM strong , BUZZ Aldrin and Michael Collins), Tranquilities the
Earth, but some of these minerals been found on the Earth.
Rigid
lithosphere mantle:
This is a rock layer
which is not that much hot to flow and it's thickness is about 620
miles (1000 km).
Non-rigid mantle:
This is a asthenospheric
layer and only the deepest parts of that are hot enough to flow
and it's rigidity is less than lithosphere but can transmit
seismic waves.
Core:
This is non-fluid and
probably made of iron-rich rock which is only 2 to 4 percent of
total mass of Moon and it's diameter may be is around 225 miles on
360 km.
The magnetic field of
moon is one ten-millionth of the Earth's magnetic field and this
small core can not creat much magnetic field. Therefore a compass
can not work on the moon but as there is no atmosphere, sky always
is dark and we can navigate by looking at stars.
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