What is the moon explanation for children. Conversation in the preparatory group

♦ How many of you know which planet is a satellite of the Earth?

Of course it's the Moon. Imagine a moonlit night. The bluish light of the moon, like light transparent smoke, fills the park. Patterned shadows of branches and leaves lie on the paths, and a silvery moonlit path stretches across the calm surface of the sleepy lake.

Moon

The clear moon came out

She looked down

To the birch trees, to the meadows,

To the river banks.

“How wonderful it is on earth!

The nightingale sings in the darkness.

Only I’m always alone!” —

The pale moon is crying.

The stars in the sky are burning,

They whisper, they say:

“Don’t be sad in vain, moon,

You are not alone in heaven!

Although you are not very bright,

Still, the sun is a sister.

Shine on the dark night

Light up the way!”

The Moon is the Earth's faithful companion, its closest neighbor in space.

♦ What shape do you think the Moon has?

That's right, the Moon is spherical.

♦ Now think about it, is the Moon larger than the Earth or smaller?

The Moon is four times smaller than the Earth.

♦ But why does the small (by cosmic standards) Moon seem larger than the stars and planets to us?

This happens because the Moon is closer to the Earth.

The surface of our satellite is cold and dark. The moon does not glow itself; it, like a mirror, only reflects the sun's rays falling on it.

There are many depressions and deep holes on the rocky surface of the satellite. They are called craters.

Craters appear when huge rock and ice meteorites fall onto the Moon from space.

There are very few such craters on Earth.

♦ Why do you think?

The Earth is protected by an atmosphere in which meteorites burn or melt. But our neighbor the Moon has no atmosphere.

There is no water on our satellite either, so the Moon is lifeless. After all, plants and animals need air, water and heat.

♦ Try to complement what I say.

The Moon revolves around... (Earth) and together with the Earth - around... (Sun).

The Moon always faces the same side towards the Earth. We cannot see the opposite side of the Moon from Earth!

♦ Do you think the Moon and the month are the same celestial body or different bodies?

Right! Same thing. But every night the moon looks different. Sometimes it looks like a thin earring on a dark blue background, just like in the riddle: “The golden earring lies on a blue matting,” sometimes like a slice of melon, sometimes like a golden horn.

The partial Moon is called a month.

golden horn

The snow creaks under your feet,

The stars are twinkling

Month golden horn

Lights up at night.

It's brighter and more fun with him

In the sky is dark blue.

A scattering of colored lights

Frost flares up.

The full moon looks like a round pancake.

The pancake hangs in the sky at night,

We want to eat it

And he will hide behind a cloud,

You can't reach it with your pen!

♦ Why does the Moon look different every night?

You already know that the Moon shines not with its own light, but with reflected light. We see the Moon because it is illuminated by the sun's rays.

The moon revolves around the Earth. If a section of the Moon is in the shadow of our planet, then the Sun does not illuminate its entire surface, but only the open part. We observe this part in the night skies and call it the month.

The moon has always interested and attracted the eyes of people. Scientists wanted to solve lunar mysteries. Therefore, automatic stations and lunar rovers were sent to the Moon. With the help of instruments installed on lunar rovers, it was possible to find out that there are mountains on the Earth’s satellite, as well as lowlands, which are called “seas”. But there is not a drop of water in the lunar “seas”!

People have also been to the moon. The first astronaut to set foot on the surface of the Moon was the American Neil Armstrong.

Questions for consolidation

♦ Which planet is a satellite of the Earth?

♦ What shape does the Moon have?

♦ How many times is the Moon smaller than the Earth?

♦ What does the lunar surface look like?

♦ Does the Moon have an atmosphere?

♦ Is there water in the lunar seas?

♦ What is the partial Moon called?

1. There is a monument to fallen astronauts on the Moon. This is a small aluminum figurine of an astronaut in a spacesuit, just over 8 cm high. Next to the figurine there is a plaque with the names of people who gave their lives for space exploration.

2. The first living creatures to fly around the Moon in a spaceship were Central Asian turtles. They were kept company by flies, beetles, plants, algae, seeds and bacteria.

3. There is a large temperature difference on the surface of the Moon: from -100°C to +160°C. On Earth, the maximum temperature difference is from -49 to +7 degrees. Moreover, on Earth such a difference is not the norm, since it was recorded only once - in 1916 in the state of Montana (USA).

4. The landscape of the Moon can be seen with a regular home telescope. For example, seas and lunar craters are clearly visible through home telescopes.

5. Even during the day there is a black starry sky above the Moon, since our satellite does not have its own atmosphere. The Earth is also visible from the Moon day and night. In this case, the position of the earth's disk practically does not change.

6. The force of gravity on the Moon is 6 times less than on Earth. Therefore, on the Moon, the average person could lift a load equal in weight to his own weight.

7. It will take about 20 days to fly to the moon by plane. By car you would have to travel longer - about six months, if you move without stopping at a cruising speed of 90-100 kilometers per hour.

8. From Earth, the diameter of the Moon and the Sun appears to be the same. Thanks to this amazing coincidence, earthlings can observe a solar eclipse.

9. The Earth’s satellite has its own Alps, Apennines, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Caucasus Mountains. Mountains located on the visible side of the Moon are clearly visible through an amateur telescope.

10. In 2010, NASA proposed the “avatars” lunar project. The idea is as follows: robots are sent to the Moon, and scientists, wearing special suits, control them from Earth. If this project is implemented, then it will be possible not to send people to the Moon, but to conduct all research from the surface of their home planet.

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The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth. It is the second brightest object in the earth's sky after the Sun and the fifth largest natural satellite of the planets in the solar system.

Lunar Myths

The moon has attracted human attention since ancient times. She was worshiped, she was deified, legends were made about her.

The most common plot is the motif of a “heavenly wedding”: the Sun and the Moon get married, but then the Moon leaves the Sun, and is cut in half as punishment. This explains the phenomenon of changing lunar phases.

There is also a widespread myth that someone (usually wolves or demons, supernatural creatures) devours the Moon piece by piece until it disappears; then the moon is reborn again.

Many nations have fairy tales and legends on the topic “where do the spots on the Moon come from?” According to the tale of the Bay-ning people, one day the Moon descended to earth, and there he was caught by a woman; he escaped and returned to the sky, but the marks of her dirty palms remained on him.
According to other legends, there is a special person on the Moon, a shaman with a tambourine who has gone to live in heaven, or a lunar gossiping woman; she was supposedly sent to the Moon by the gods many years ago for bad behavior.
The Sayan-Altai Turkic-speaking peoples had a myth about the cannibal Telbegen and how they tried to remove him from the earth. First the Sun came down behind him, but then people began to die from the heat. Then, shrinking halfway to fit on the ground, the Moon followed him. Telbegen grabbed the willow bush, but the Moon lifted him into the sky along with the bush; it is visible from the ground as spots.

Many peoples attach special importance to the Moon deity, believing that it provides the necessary elements for all living things.
In many traditions (in particular, Greek), the Moon patronizes magic, witchcraft, and fortune telling.

Where did the moon come from?

Scientists have long debated the origin of our satellite. Some believed that the newly formed Earth rotated so quickly that it threw off part of the matter, which then became the Moon. Others suggested that the Moon came from the depths of space and was captured by the force of Earth's gravity. The third theory was that the Earth and Moon formed independently, almost simultaneously and at approximately the same distance from the Sun. Differences in the chemical composition of the Earth and the Moon indicate that these celestial bodies are unlikely to have ever been one.

Not long ago, a fourth theory arose, which is now accepted as the most plausible. This is the giant impact hypothesis. The basic idea is that when the planets we see now were just forming, a celestial body the size of Mars crashed forcefully into the young Earth at a glancing angle. In this case, the lighter substances of the outer layers of the Earth would have to break away from it and scatter in space, forming a ring of debris around the Earth, while the Earth’s core, consisting of iron, would remain intact. Eventually this ring of debris fused together to form the Moon. The giant impact theory explains why the Earth contains large amounts of iron, but the Moon has almost none. In addition, from the material that was supposed to turn into the Moon, as a result of this collision, many different gases were released - in particular oxygen.

Lunar numbers

The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384.4 thousand km.
Moon radius = 1738 km
Surface temperature = from - 160 to +120° C
Day = 708 hours
The period of revolution of the Moon around the Earth = 27.3 days.
The thickness of the Moon's crust = 60-100 km.
The age of the Moon is about 4.4 billion years
The mass of the Moon is 81 times less than the mass of the Earth
The gravity on the Moon is 6 times less than on Earth
59% of the lunar surface can be seen from Earth
There is virtually no atmosphere on the Moon.
The strength of the interaction between the Earth and the Moon is constantly decreasing, causing the distance between the Earth and the Moon to increase by about 4 cm every year.

Moon phases

From day to day the Moon changes its appearance. As you know, it does not emit its own light; only reflected sunlight is visible. Since the Moon does not stand still, we see its illuminated side from different angles each time.

New moon. When the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, the Sun illuminates the side of the Moon that is facing it. The Moon is not visible to us.

Growing Moon. A few days later we see part of the illuminated side of the Moon - a crescent turned like the bow of the letter P (GROWING). Every day it increases, gradually turns into a semicircle, then becomes more and more close in appearance to a light circle.

Full moon. The Earth is located between the Sun and the Moon. The moon is facing us.

Waning Moon. Gradually the luminous circle turns into a sickle, only now it is turned like the letter C (OLD). Finally, the sickle completely disappears and the new moon arrives.

Lunar eclipses. The Sun, Moon and Earth lie in one line at the full moon stage. The Earth blocks the Moon from the Sun. The moon turns brick red.

Interaction with the Earth.

The gravitational forces between the Earth and the Moon cause sea tides. The Moon's gravitational pull is stronger on the side of the Earth facing the Moon and weaker on the opposite side. Therefore, the Earth's surface, and especially the oceans, are stretched towards the Moon. And since the Earth rotates much faster than the Moon moves in its orbit, moving the bulges around the Earth once a day produces two high tides per day.

Lunar relief.

The details of the lunar relief visible even to the naked eye are the so-called seas and continents.
When observed through a telescope, it becomes clear that the seas and continents are strewn with craters.
The sizes of craters range from hundreds of kilometers to several centimeters.
On the visible side of the Moon, the number of craters with a diameter greater than 1 km is about 300 thousand.
Collisions with very large asteroids caused giant cracks in the lunar surface, through which liquid molten lava flowed. This is how seas and oceans appeared on the Moon.
The Italian astronomer Giovanni Riccioli in the 17th century assigned the names to the heights and depressions of the Moon: Alps, Apennines and Caucasus, Ocean of Storms, seas of Rain, Cold and Calm, craters Tycho, Pythagoras, Ptolemy, etc.
At the suggestion of Soviet astronomers, the International Astronomical Union placed 18 names of newly discovered formations on the first map of the far side of the Moon. This is how the Sea of ​​Moscow, the craters Hertz, Kurchatov, Lomonosov, Maxwell, Mendeleev, Sklodovskaya-Curie, and Tsiolkovsky appeared on the Moon.

Since there is no atmosphere on the Moon, the boundaries of light and shadow are very sharp, there are no halftones, and there cannot be wind on it. There is a constantly cloudless black sky, on which the stars shine even in the bright sun.

The first visitors to the Moon.

The Moon is the only celestial body on which man has landed.
The first artificial object to overcome the Earth's gravity and fly near the Moon was the Soviet station Luna 1.
The first satellite to reach the lunar surface was Luna 2.
The first satellite to take photographs of the far side of the Moon was Luna 3. All three of these lunar programs were successfully completed in 1959.
The first successful soft landing on the Moon was carried out by the Soviet station Luna 9.
Luna 10 became the first artificial satellite of the Moon on April 3, 1966, remaining there for 57 days.
Another Soviet station, Luna 16, was the first to deliver samples of lunar soil to Earth on September 24, 1970.
The Luna 17 station, launched on November 10, 1970, delivered the Lunokhod 1 self-propelled vehicle to the Moon. The device traveled along the surface of the Earth's satellite with a length of 10,540 meters.
Lunokhod 2 was delivered on January 16, 1973 by the Luna 21 station. The device covered a route of 37 km.
The last "Luna" was "Luna 24", which in August 1976 delivered a two-meter column of lunar soil to Earth.

The American Apollo lunar program began in the early 60s of the last century with President Kennedy's statement that the United States would put a man on the Moon before the end of the 60s. From 1966 to 1968, five Lunar Orbiter stations and two Explorer stations were launched into orbit around our natural satellite. At the same time, seven Server spacecraft were launched to land on the Moon. In addition, 17 Apollos were launched, 6 of which delivered astronauts to the Moon, who conducted unique research there.
The first spacecraft to take people to the Moon was Apollo 11.
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on July 20, 1969. Armstrong was the first to emerge from the cabin, uttering a phrase that became historic: “This is a small step for a man, but a giant leap for mankind.” The astronauts spoke to the US President using space radio communications; They installed a laser radiation reflector, a seismometer, took pictures, and collected 22 kg of lunar soil samples. All work took them 2 hours 30 minutes. During this time, the astronauts moved away from the landing module at a distance of up to 100 m. In the main block in orbit was Michael Collins, who also conducted scientific research.

After 1976, for quite a long time there were no launches to the Moon either in our country or in the USA.

In 1994, the American Clementine spacecraft resumed research of our satellite, including taking about 3 million photographs.

There is no water on the Moon...almost

The astronauts brought about 385 kg of moon rocks to Earth. Having carefully examined the brought samples, scientists came to the conclusion that not a single stone delivered to Earth had ever been exposed to water or atmosphere and did not contain organic remains. The moon is an absolutely dead world.
This was believed until recently. But research by the Clementine spacecraft gives hope that there is still ice at the poles of the Moon, and that the rocks contain hydrogen and oxygen.
It is very possible that one day space stations and astronomical observatories will be built on the Moon. People will not be bothered by the rich reserves of iron, aluminum and silicon on the satellite.

Some interesting facts.

Lunar Monument
There is a monument erected on the moon. This is an aluminum figurine in a spacesuit, dedicated to the memory of the astronauts who have already died. The plaque next to the figure lists the names of the 14 victims, including Yuri Gagarin. The monument was erected by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971.

The smell of moon dust
Although American astronauts thoroughly cleaned their spacesuits before returning to the spacecraft from the Moon, some lunar dust still remained on them. In the ship, the astronauts determined that lunar dust smelled like gunpowder.

The first animals to fly around the moon were turtles.
It happened in 1968: Central Asian steppe tortoises were put into the Soviet spacecraft Zond-5. The choice was justified by the fact that they do not require a large supply of oxygen, they can eat nothing for a week and a half and remain in a lethargic sleep for a long time.

Firm on order
During the construction of the first Soviet lunar rover, a lot of controversy arose: what is the lunar surface like? There were hypotheses that it was formed by a thick layer of dust. One organization for testing the lunar rover proposed building a huge hangar with an area of ​​​​several thousand square meters, strewn with a 5-10-meter layer of unhulled millet (which is very slippery and could become an analogue of “lunar dust”). Korolev solved the problem by personally ordering that the surface of the Moon be considered solid.

Our planet, unlike many others, has only one natural satellite that can be observed in the sky at night - this, of course, is the Moon. If you do not take into account the Sun, then this particular object is the brightest that can be observed from Earth.

Among the other satellites of the planets, the satellite of planet Earth ranks fifth in size. It has no atmosphere, no lakes and rivers. Day and night replace each other here every two weeks, and you can observe a temperature difference of three hundred degrees. And it is always turned to us with only one side, leaving its dark reverse side in mysteries. This pale blue object in the night sky is the Moon.

The lunar surface is covered with a layer of regolith (black sandy dust), which in different areas reaches a thickness of from several meters to several dozen. Lunar sand regolith arises from the constant fall of meteorites and crushing in a state of vacuum, unprotected by cosmic rays.

The surface of the Moon is uneven with many craters of varying sizes. On the Moon there are both plains and entire mountains, lined up in a chain, the height of the mountains is up to 6 kilometers. there is an assumption that more than 900 million years ago there was volcanic activity on the Moon, this is evidenced by the found particles of soil, the formation of which could be as a result of eruptions.

The surface on the Moon itself is very dark, despite the fact that on a moonlit night we can clearly see the Moon in the night sky. The lunar surface reflects just over seven percent of the sun's rays. Even from the Earth you can observe spots on its surface, which, according to an ancient erroneous judgment, retained the name “sea”.

Moon and planet Earth

The Moon always faces planet Earth with one side. On this side visible from the Earth, most of it is occupied by flat spaces called seas. The seas on the Moon occupy about sixteen percent of the total area and are giant craters that appeared after collisions with other cosmic bodies. The other side of the Moon, hidden from Earth, is almost completely dotted with mountain ranges and craters from small to huge sizes.

The influence of the cosmic object closest to us, the Moon, also extends to the Earth. Thus, a typical example is the ebb and flow of the seas, which arise due to the gravitational attraction of the satellite.

Origin of the Moon

According to various studies, there are many differences between the Moon and Earth, primarily in chemical composition: the Moon has virtually no water, relatively low levels of volatile elements, low density compared to Earth, and a small core of iron and nickel.

Nevertheless, radiometric analysis, which determines the age of celestial objects if they contain a radioactive isotope, showed that the age of the Moon is the same as that of the Earth - 4.5 billion years. The ratio of stable oxygen isotopes of the two celestial objects coincides, despite the fact that for all studied meteorites such ratios have strong differences. This suggests that both the Moon and the Earth in the distant past were formed from the same substance, located at the same distance from the Sun in a pre-planetary cloud.

Based on the general age, the combination of similar properties with a strong difference between two close objects of the solar system, 3 hypotheses for the origin of the Moon are put forward:

• 1. Formation of both the Earth and the Moon from one pre-planetary cloud


• 2. Capture of the already formed object Moon by the Earth’s gravity


• 3. The formation of the Moon as a result of a collision with the Earth of a large space object comparable in size to the planet Mars.

The Earth's pale blue satellite, the Moon, has been studied since ancient times. For example, among the Greeks the thoughts of Archimedes on this subject are especially famous. Galileo described the Moon in detail with its characteristics and possible properties. He saw plains on the surface of the Moon that looked like “seas,” mountains and craters. And in 1651, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Riccioli created a map of the Moon, where he described in detail the lunar landscape of the surface visible from the Earth and introduced designations for many parts of the lunar relief.

In the 20th century, interest in the Moon increased with the help of new technological capabilities for exploring the Earth's satellite. So on February 3, 1966, the Soviet spacecraft Luna-9 made its first soft landing on the surface of the Moon. The next spacecraft, Luna-10, became the first artificial satellite of the Moon, and quite a short time later, on July 21, 1969, a man visited the Moon for the first time. There came a series of many discoveries in the field of selenography and selenology, which were made by Soviet scientists and their American colleagues from NASA. Then, by the end of the 20th century, interest in the Moon gradually subsided.

(Photograph of the far side of the Moon, landing of the Chang'e-4 spacecraft)

On January 3, 2019, the Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-4 successfully landed on the surface of the far side of the moon, this side is constantly facing away from the light emitted by the Earth and is invisible from the surface of the planet. For the first time, the far side of the lunar surface was photographed by the Soviet Luna-3 station on October 27, 1959, and more than half a century later, at the beginning of 2019, the Chinese Chang'e-4 spacecraft landed on the surface far from the Earth.

Colonization on the Moon
Many writers and science fiction writers, along with the planet Mars, consider the Moon as an object for future human colonization. Despite the fact that this is more like a fiction, the American agency NASA seriously thought about this issue, setting the task of developing the “Constellation” program to resettle people on the lunar surface with the construction of a real space base on the Moon and the development of “inter-Earth-lunar” space flights. However, this program was suspended by the decision of US President Barack Obama due to high funding.

Robot Avatars on the Moon
However, in 2011, NASA again proposed a new program, this time called “Avatars,” which required the development and production of robotic avatars on Earth, which would then be delivered to the Earth’s satellite the Moon in order to further simulate living in human lunar conditions with telepresence effect. That is, a person will control the robot avatar from Earth, fully dressed in a suit that will simulate his presence on the Moon as a robot avatar located in real conditions on the lunar surface.

Big Moon Illusion
When the Moon is low above the Earth's horizon, the illusion arises that its size is larger than it actually is. At the same time, the real angular size of the Moon does not change; on the contrary, the closer it is to the horizon, the angular size decreases slightly. Unfortunately, this effect is difficult to explain and most likely refers to an error in visual perception.

Are there seasons on the Moon?
Both on Earth and on any other planet, the change of seasons occurs from the inclination of its axis of rotation, while the intensity of the change of seasons depends on the location of the plane of the planet’s orbit, be it a satellite around the Sun.

The Moon has an inclination of its rotation axis to the ecliptic plane of 88.5°, almost perpendicular. Therefore, on the Moon, on the one hand, there is almost eternal day, on the other hand, almost eternal night. This means that the temperature in each part of the lunar surface is also different and practically unchanged. At the same time, there can be no talk of a change of seasons on the Moon, much more due to the simple absence of an atmosphere.

Why do dogs bark at the moon?
There is no clear explanation for this phenomenon, but most likely, according to some scientists, it is the animal’s fear of an effect similar to a solar eclipse that causes fear in many animals. The vision of dogs and wolves is very weak and they perceive the Moon on a cloudless night as the Sun, confusing night with day. Weak moonlight and the moon itself are perceived by them as a dim Sun, and therefore, seeing the Moon, they behave in the same way as during a Solar eclipse, howl and bark.

Lunar capitalism
In Nikolai Nosov's fairy-tale novel "Dunno on the Moon," the Moon is a satellite, possibly of artificial origin, with a whole city inside - the stronghold of the modern capitalist system. What’s interesting is that the children’s story seems not so much fantastic as it is socio-political, which does not lose its relevance in modern times, interesting for both children and adults.

Perhaps every person has looked at the Moon at least once in his life. And even schoolchildren know certain facts about it. We have collected for our readers less well-known, but no less interesting facts about the satellite of our planet.

1. The moon appeared as a result of a collision

The moon appeared as a result of a collision. Scientists believe that the Moon was formed from debris from the Earth and a space object the size of Mars after their collision.

2. 206 thousand 264 Moons

In order for it to be as light at night as during the day, about three hundred thousand moons would be needed, and 206 thousand 264 moons would have to be in the full moon phase.

3. People always see the same side of the moon

People always see the same side of the Moon. The Earth's gravitational field slows down the Moon's rotation around its axis. Therefore, the rotation of the Moon around its axis occurs in the same time as its rotation around the Earth.

4. The far side of the moon

The far side of the Moon is more mountainous compared to the one visible from Earth. This is explained by the force of gravity of the Earth, which has led to a thinner crust on the side facing our planet.

5. Moon Tree Seeds

More than 400 trees growing on Earth were brought from the Moon. The seeds of these trees were taken by the crew of Apollo 14 in 1971, orbited the Moon and returned to Earth.

6. Asteroid Cruithney

The Earth may have other natural satellites. The Cruithney asteroid moves in orbital resonance with the Earth and completes a full revolution around the planet every 770 years.

7. Craters on the surface of the Moon

Craters on the surface of the Moon were left by meteorites 4.1 - 3.8 billion years ago. They are still visible only because, geologically, the Moon is not as active as the Earth.

8. There is water on the moon

There is water on the moon. The Earth satellite has no atmosphere, but does have frozen water in shadowed craters and beneath the soil surface.

9. The moon is not a perfect ball

The moon is not actually a perfect sphere. It is rather egg-shaped due to the influence of Earth's gravity. In addition, its center of mass is not in the center of the cosmic body, but approximately two kilometers away from the center.

10. Crater named...

The lunar craters were first named after famous scientists, artists and explorers, and later after the names of American and Russian cosmonauts.

11. Moonquakes

On the Earth's satellite there are... moonquakes. They are caused by the gravitational influence of the Earth. Their epicenter is located several kilometers below the surface of the Moon.

12. Exosphere

The moon has an atmosphere called the exosphere. It consists of helium, neon and argon.

13. Dancing Dust

There is dancing dust on the Moon. It hovers above the surface of the Moon (more intensely at sunrise or sunset). Dust particles rise upward due to electromagnetic forces.

The Earth's satellite is more like a planet. The Earth and Moon are a double planet system, similar to the Pluto + Charon system.

15. The moon causes the tides on Earth

The moon causes the ebb and flow of the tides on Earth. The Moon's gravitational pull affects our planet's oceans. The highest tides occur during a full or new moon.

16. The Moon is moving away from the Earth

One lunar day is equal to 29.5 days on Earth. On the Moon, it takes 29.5 Earth days for the Sun to cross the entire sky.

19. "Ares I" and "Ares V"

Men haven't landed on the moon for 41 years. However, NASA is working on new rockets, Ares I and Ares V, that will be able to carry payload to the Moon and back.

20. Progress

Today, smartphones are much more powerful than the computers used to land the Apollo on the moon.

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