Moon Rings Like A Bell

Each time these caused the moon according to nasa to ring like a gong or a bell on one of the apollo 12 flights reverberations lasted from nearly an hour.

Moon rings like a bell. Even if a moonquake isnt intense it just keeps going and going neal says. The sun also rings like a bell and you can listen to a recording. Between 1972 and 1977 seismometers installed on the moon by the apollo missions recorded moonquakes. And for a lunar habitat that persistence could be more significant than a moonquakes magnitude.

The moon was described as ringing like a bell during some of those quakes specifically the shallow ones. The moon rang like a bell. But seriously from wikipedia the moon rang like a bell. The puzzle of why the moon rings like a hollow sphere when a large object hits it.

The moon rings like a bell the apollo missions and subsequent moon landings have been at the center of controversy and conspiracy for years. This phrase was brought to popular attention in march 1970 in an article in popular science. We have no seismometers on the sun but by detecting small shifts in the light from its surface we can detect surface vibrations as if we did. The moon however is dry cool and mostly rigid like a chunk of stone or iron.

During the apollo moon missions ascent stages of lunar modules as well as the spent third stages of rockets crashed on the hard surface of the moon. So moonquakes set it vibrating like a tuning fork. Between 1972 and 1977 seismometers installed on the moon by the apollo missions recorded moonquakes. Unlike the moon that sits more or less quiet until a rocket or something hits it the suns vibrations are powered by its own ongoing internal nuclear fusion reactions.

Theyreve been a lot of takeaway lessons from apollo but perhaps the strangest is that the moon can sometimes ring like a bell.