Discussion
The BBC have released some old programmes on iPlayer on the theme of 'The Space Race'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p02865b6
The 1960 Sky At Night speculation on the moon is fascinating, giving a real flavour of those early days.
The 1987 Tomorrow's World programme on Mars sure kept the model makers busy too. The contrast with TW in 1995 is interesting in itself.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p02865b6
The 1960 Sky At Night speculation on the moon is fascinating, giving a real flavour of those early days.
The 1987 Tomorrow's World programme on Mars sure kept the model makers busy too. The contrast with TW in 1995 is interesting in itself.
Just dug out my Mitchell Beazley Concise Atlas of the Universe written by Patrick Moore in 1974, which as I recalled, has a section on the competing theories.
Moore wrote: "Lunar craters are not distributed at random ... occur along lines of weakness in the Moon's crust, which shows they must be of internal origin. ... Central peaks are only to be expected on a volcanic theory ... a close analogy between lunar craters and terrestrial calderas. ... The rocks brought back from Apollo missions are volcanic. ... The volcanic and impact theories are not, however, mutually exclusive."
The Atlas was one of my favourite books as a kid, full of fuzzy photos of the planets, the best we had before Viking, Voyager, etc.
Moore wrote: "Lunar craters are not distributed at random ... occur along lines of weakness in the Moon's crust, which shows they must be of internal origin. ... Central peaks are only to be expected on a volcanic theory ... a close analogy between lunar craters and terrestrial calderas. ... The rocks brought back from Apollo missions are volcanic. ... The volcanic and impact theories are not, however, mutually exclusive."
The Atlas was one of my favourite books as a kid, full of fuzzy photos of the planets, the best we had before Viking, Voyager, etc.
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