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For this thread, we’re diving into to some Moon basics. You might be wondering what the Moon is made from 🤔 We can tell you it’s not cheese! 😂 This @OUFreeLearning will get you up to speed about the rock minerals inside the Moon. #LivingOnTheMoon

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Here’s a neat video featuring Professor in Planetary Science and Exploration, @ma235camb, explaining more about his research on Moon rocks within @OU_SPS.

In this @OUFreeLearning article, @DaveRothery explains how scientists think the Moon was made. Again, no cheese involved, but there was a giant impact!

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This excellent film featuring PhD student @zoe_morland looks at the various theories on how the Moon formed, and how most scientists have eventually come to settle on the giant impact hypothesis.

That might leave you wondering how old the Moon is? Here, Lunar Scientists Sam Faircloth answers that for you.

If you’re a keen stargazer then this ‘60 Second Adventures In Astronomy: The rotating moon’ animation might be just for you, to help you discover how the Moon's orbit means we always see its best side.
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Mythbusting moons! Would we have tides if we had no Moon? Is a ‘supermoon’ an important event? Can moons have moons? Enjoy this short animation.
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How about some Moon #SciArt? The Earth’s Reflection, composed by @YazzAhmed1 in collab. with @ma235camb, starts with the Moon's chaotic birth, but its calm conclusion imagines a future moon dweller gazing at the reflection of the Earth in a pool of water.
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Whilst Earth has only one Moon, there are many more out there. Jupiter has 79 of them!

This popular free course on @OUFreeLearning gives you 8 weeks of study about the Moons of our Solar System.

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Looking at the Moon, it looks bone dry, but it turns out scientists discovered this isn't the case. Tara Hayden, @MiniMoonRocks, wrote a great article for @OUFreeLearning about the legacy of the Apollo missions, including the search for Moon water.

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Looking into the future, if we want to send humans to live on the Moon, they'll need water and it's too expensive to launch from Earth. So maybe they could use the water inside the Moon instead?

This article by @simeonbarber looks at this topic.
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Here’s @OU_SPS Lunar Researcher @Hannah_Sargey telling us a bit more about water as a resource on the Moon.
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We continue our #AsteroidDay content and, looking to the future, Prof of Planetary and Space Science, Simon Green is working on space missions that will visit asteroids in coming years.

Why? For planetary defence - how we protect Earth from impact by space rocks in the future.
One of the planetary defence missions is @NASA's DART and the other is @esa’s HERA, both looking at how to deflect asteroids on a collision course with Earth. @ESA have a great video narrated by @DrBrianMay all about how these missions are connected.
For the research side, you can check out Prof Simon Green’s research about the science behind DART and HERA for asteroid deflection.
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Today we’re posting asteroid content to celebrate #AsteroidDay.

In case you missed it this morning, @ESA made a programme as part of @AsteroidDay, which included @StarkeyStardust as a guest. It’s a good place to start on your @AsteroidDay journey.

Another key aspect of asteroid science is in figuring out the danger they pose to life on Earth. The poor dinosaurs owe their demise to a large space rock colliding with our planet but in this article, @monicaGrady discusses what small asteroids could do.
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Asteroids that pose a risk to Earth are 'near-Earth asteroids' - those objects that are close to our planet. This video includes Prof of Planetary and Space Science, Simon Green, speaking about them after @ajnorton3 talks about ‘A Clockwork Universe’.

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