ASSIGNMENT

The Man in the Moon Has Company

BY: Qudratullah Ehsan

level: Three
Time:5:30 - 6:50 AM

Instructor: Mujtaba Juya

 The Man in the Moon Has Company
The moon (round object) that we can see shining in the sky at the night and with our normal lens of eyes
we can see many great features on the moon’s face, like: mountains regions
and marks of meteorite impact. The dark patches are obvious marking. The 17th century astronomers assumed
they were water. They named the spot region (sea), Mara.
The following diagram explain the different spots.

 Mare Tranquillitatis: The sea of Tranquility, The first astronomer by the name of Neil Armstrong set
feet in 1969.
‚ Mare Serenitatis: The sea of Serenity.
ƒ Mare Imbrium: The sea of Rains.
Mare
Also, there are others formless Oceanus: Serenitatis
Mare
Mare
Tranquillitatis
Oceanus Procellarum Imbrium
(The ocean of storms)

Oceanus
Procellarum
Mare
Numbium

Mare Humorum Mare Numbium

(The sea of mositure) ( The sea of clouds)
Mare
Humorum

Many people tried to find shaped on moon’s face like,

¬ A lot of people saw a rabbit in the moon. (They believed , that the moon was pure white until on their
Gods flung a rabbit against it).
¬ Indian people believed that the Rabbit leaped into a fire to sacrifice himself to feed a staring beggar.

But the ancient Greeks weren’t satisfied with this kind of imagination. They tried to find what the spots are:

« One idea was that they were reflections of the Earth’s continents and seas

« But others showed that this was not possible.

Pluto of Chaeronea, a Romanized Greek who lived from about 46 to 120 CE, wrote a book titled On the Face of
the Disk of the Moon. He reported a wide variety of opinions about the moon and gave arguments for and
against each. He refuted some of those theories , such as the one that the markings were illusions in the eye of
the beholder. Instead he suggested , rightly, that the light and dark areas are composed of different materials.
He declared that the moon covered by the mountains and valleys.

Plutarch recorded some more important ancient findings. He quotes Aristarchus as determining the
moon to be between 0.31 and 0.40 the size of the Earth (close enough; the true value is0.27) and Also he said
unidentified philosopher who measured the moon’s distance to in modern units, about 215,000 miles (the true
value averages 240,000)
Today we are spoiled by technology. People think they can’t see anything in the sky without a telescope,
much less figure out what it is. But a good eye and brain can go a long away.