• Question: Why do you play with rockes from outa space

    Asked by haz786 to Nicola on 12 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Nicola Potts

      Nicola Potts answered on 12 Nov 2013:


      That’s a good question!

      I think it’s pretty cool that we have rocks from space on Earth that we can look at!
      We can also tell a lot about our own planet by looking at the Moon. We have an atmosphere, wind, rain, plate tectonics (which lead to something called subduction – which is where the top layer of the Earth is pushed deep down into the bottom layers) which means we don’t have a good idea what happened billions of years ago.

      The Moon has none of this and has been recording processes happening to both the Moon and Earth for billions of years. So for example if we want to know how life began on Earth we can look to the Moon to see what the Earth would have been like then.

      And also it’s cool (well I think so!)

      (I also love the fact that humans landed on the Moon and brought rocks back – it is just amazing we could do that!)

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