The Moon: Crash Course Astronomy #12

Join Phil for a tour of our capital-M Moon, from surface features, inside to the core, and back in time to theories about its formation.

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Chapters:
Introduction: The Moon 00:00
How Big is the Moon? 0:54
Internal Structure of the Moon 1:56
The Moon's Surface: Highlands and Maria 2:15
How the Moon Formed: The Giant Impact Hypothesis 3:42
The Moon's Craters 6:32
Water on the Moon? H2O Yeah! 8:06
Review 9:06

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PHOTOS/VIDEOS

[bookdream]

Its kind of crazy thinking the next moon walking astronaut is some teen out there right now. We're all rootin for you kid.

[matthewtrout]

Hearing you talk about the next person on the moon being a teenager today. I’m 16 years old looking to go to college to study aerospace engineering and work for nasa. That last part of the video got me pumped, Mr plait.

[ZeddTsunderbolt]

It's pretty late in the series to say this now, but I'll say it anyway. I love the way Phil talks about anything in this series. There's a "childlike wonder" in his face and voice clearly showing that he's passionate about astronomy and what heavenly body is topic to a particular episode. Things like this make me wish I could afford the Patereon subscription.

[athira]

in Arabic, the moon is the basic reference of beauty. when we see someone beautiful we say "he/she is a moon"

[LyraMeldy]

Im always pausing the animated intro too see all the fun facts :)

[DanielVerberne]

7:50 - so glad Phil mentioned the "skylights", I find them fascinating. Phil Plait, you are a treasure to us science nuts!

[lordstronghold]

The moon: crunchy on the outside, chewy in the middle

[goalsrecreated]

My word, I was thinking about doing an aerospace degree and that ending has inspired me to do it even more so!

[romerotronic]

I thought this episode would begin saying "The Moon is a satellite. That's a profound statement, and one that's not really all that obvious" :(

[pooka]

In my opinion, the best crash course series ever.

[jkwest]

These vids just keep getting better and better. Thanks for the great work!

[TheJaredtheJaredlong]

A lunar colony should be named "Selenia" from the Greek name for the Moon.

[kahani.bharat]

8:46 You are true. The PM of India already declared that, a child of India will step his foot on moon on or before 2022.

[curryshrimp]

i'm doing some research on the moon and this is helping. i like his delivery and way of conveying information as well, it's not dry or down-wind. thanks for posting.

[dhruvkandpal]

He was actually right! Nasa has geared itself for the Artemis programme to help humans establish on the moon.

[farldarkbeard]

Normally your videos are a bit hard for causal watching but I liked this one.

[militia]

No one from 2019 here? We’re going back sooner than expected.

[AnthonyBatistanator]

Okay Phil, you been teasing me long enough with those books. I ordered Apollo 13

[tp]

What great crash course! It's always fun learning something new about something you at least think you know so much about.

[MrMariotime]

False. The Moon is made of cheese. Source: Wallace and Gromit