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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Do you know lots about the moon? Would you survive a crash on the moon? We take a quick quiz, visit a classic NASA Challenge and link to some of the many resources available to celebrate this great achievement.<\/p>\n

This blog was originally written to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Quick Moon Quiz<\/span><\/h2>\n
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  1. Where is ‘The Island of the Moon’?<\/li>\n
  2. What is the old English name for the moon?<\/li>\n
  3. When the moon is ‘gibbous’ what does this mean?<\/li>\n
  4. Who are ‘Moon’s men’?<\/li>\n
  5. In which of his plays does Shakespeare speak of ‘This man with lantern, dog and bush of thorn, Presenteth moonshine’?<\/li>\n
  6. By what name is the moon known in classical mythology?
    \na. When she has set?
    \nb. When she is a crescent?
    \nc. When she hunts the clouds?<\/li>\n
  7. What colour is a \u2018moon\u2019 horse?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    WOULD YOU SURVIVE? Take this classic NASA challenge<\/span><\/h2>\n

    You and your three team members have crashed on the moon. Only 15 items are left intact and undamaged after landing. You are about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from a lunar outpost. Your survival depends on you reaching the outpost, finding a way to protect yourself until someone can reach you, or meeting a rescue party somewhere between your landing site and the outpost.<\/p>\n

    The Moon has no atmosphere or magnetosphere to protect you from space radiation. The lunar soil is a mixture of materials that includes sharp, glassy particles. The gravity field on the Moon is only one-sixth as strong as Earth\u2019s. More than 80 percent of the Moon is made up of heavily cratered highlands. Temperatures vary widely on the Moon. It can be as cold as -193\u00b0C (-315\u00b0F) at night at its poles and as hot as 111\u00b0C (232\u00b0F) during the day at its equator. Food, shelter, water, air, navigation and means of transportation are all important. Rank the surviving items in order of usefulness and say how you would use them to help you and your crew make it to the lunar outpost. 1 <\/strong>is the most useful and 15<\/strong> the least. Find out what NASA scientists thought below.<\/p>\n