You know what this means, of course.
The presence of astronauts on the moon caused an unexpected warming of its subsurface temperatures for a period of time in the 1970s, a new study has found after delving into “lost” tapes from the Apollo missions.
In 1971 and 1972, NASA deployed sensors on the moon during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions in an effort to measure the moon’s surface and subsurface temperatures — a project dubbed the heat flow experiment.
Data was collected and beamed back down to Earth until 1977, where scientists were baffled by the gradual warming of the moon’s surface being read by the sensors.
It means a “moonbat tax” is on the horizon.
Tragically, all life on the moon has subsequently ended.
Haven’t you heard? The dark side is populated with leftist moonbats. What other planet could they possibly come from?
Uranus
What is the sole source of heat and light on the Moon? Could that source have possibly been slightly increasing its output over the time frame in question?
The moon, Mars, Pluto, etc….are all warming
…but it’s not the sun
snark
you are aware that there are many people who will not see the sarcasm here?
Oh God. It will take generations for science to recover from the destruction leftists have wrought upon the scientific method.
Don’t forget that there have been demands in South Africa to “decolonialize” science. It might not be long before students have to learn how to shoot lightning bolts.
The moon is about 27 percent of the size of the earth.
Leaving aside factors such as the absence of any atmosphere akin to ours, the effect of a total of 12 astronauts tootling around a tiny patch of the moon for a few days at a time is roughly the equivalent of a total of 45 astronauts doing that on earth for a few days.
Moonbattery indeed.
Notice that those data tapes were mislaid for many years. One can only imagine what leftist conspiracy types will make of that.
Every time a big chunk of rock hits the moon, it warms up a lot (a) from the impact, and (b) from the effects of massive disturbance to the regolith which exposes lots of basalt. And then, after hundreds, thousands, or millions of years, the basalt is covered up again, due to more dust falling from space or solar irradiation of the surface.
It’s a cycle that is replayed endlessly. And a few astronauts have little to no effect comparatively. So the reason this is newsworthy is … ?
It’s the start of a campaign to stop lunar warming.
Light coloured rocks and dark coloured rocks. Move the light soil exposing the dark soil and it is exposed to the sun. I have heard the sun warms. Go figure.
Heh heh heh, if not for more $ or lunar cooling…lunar climate change!
Good thing those moon buggies were electric. Imagine the moon warming if they were gas powered.
Looks like NASA and scientists are mining for grants to study something …. anything.
Yes
There’s a lot of that going on in academe. I had a discussion with my Ph. D. supervisor about it. He didn’t seem particularly concerned about what he investigated, so long as someone else was footing the bill. Then again, he had tenure, so what did he care?
The image of the researcher committed to whatever they were working on, no matter what (such as Jody Foster’s character in the movie Contact), seems to be more a creation of fiction writers and Hollywood.
Or maybe the sensor response drifted over time in a harsh environment. Endless things to go wrong and no way to check them. This is all just speculation.
So a DEAD lunar satellite is … more DEAD? Because a human shuffled around on the surface? Good to know
I’m impressed by our ability to pull such temperature statistics out of our scientific asses. Put a pin prick into a watermelon and then measure the impact from 384,000 of miles away is truly a amazing feat in a time where a accurate 7 day weather forecast is still a crapshoot.
Jumped the Shark ! or Cow jumps over the Moon ?
This is a demonstration of their knowledge, that people aren’t paying attention, don’t care and/or are gullible in believing anything, a so called scientist says. hey, it’s working for glowball warming,,,isn’t it? !!!
Cow probably dropped some methane gas on the moon.
” “The moon will be just fine if it’s two degrees hotter than it is right now.””
(Walter Kiefer, a senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
Well… there’s my takeaway.
Party on Wayne!
This is what happens when an XYZ-Studies grad attempts to write a science article, or maybe this piece missed the April 1 edition.
Then again, it DID satisfy CBC journalistic requirements and would be a fine addition to the current body of Settled Climate Science…
That data should be plotted against the sunspot cycle.
So, we have roughly 6 yrs of moon surface temp data…and the moon is how many billion years old?
It’s an irreversible trend, I tell ya! Just look at the data, if you don’t believe me……
I get a kick out of all this and I always tell scientists – recheck your instruments: I remember putting temperature sensors deep in a gas well. With the well shut in – the temperature should be constant. However we noticed the temperature changed by 1-2 deg C in a somewhat sinusoidal pattern repeating every 24 hours. Turns out the temperature of the surface metal box holding all the data transmission instrumentation was changing with day to night temperatures. Scientifically it shouldn’t have caused this effect, but someone forgot to instruct the instruments in modern science.
Good thing we found this out. Otherwise the left would be claiming (pick one): a) proof of catastrophic global warming 3000 m deep, b) a magma intrusion coming slowly to the surface indicating a high risk of a major Alberta volcano, c) Jimmy Hoffa’s body decomposing.
aaaaand gravity on the surface of the moon is what, about 1/6 on earth?
moonbattery indeed. they all need to be knocked over the fcukin head with a nice big battery
from a burned out tesla.
“Should we morally be concerned about that?”
Forgive me for living, but I never tread it.
They probably won’t allow any SUVs on the moon.
I happened to be flipping through the radio stations today and not surprisingly, this story was treated with a degree of seriousness on the 4:00 to 6:00 PM CBC radio program The Afternoon Edition. It certainly provided some unintended humor on a slow day.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/12/man-made-warming-on-the-moon/
♬ Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the /
Sting, please call the office….
Sting, please call the office.
(He got away with the whole ocean pollution thing)
Logically, they’re not gonna plow the roads any more.
You can’t make this stuff up….
Why should we care?
This inevitably curse the moon, to endure more manbuns, and cyclists joining moon traffic congestion.