Our Beautiful Moon and its Mysterious Magnetism

Download or read book Our Beautiful Moon and its Mysterious Magnetism written by Mike Fuller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a summary of the history of discovering the moon. The author has been involved in the Apollo program, working with its samples and this book covers these efforts. It describes the analysis methods of lunar samples and their interpretation to understand lunar paleomagnetism. The book has adopted an historical approach throughout, tracing the development of the ideas of the Earth-moon system, of the birth of the space age, of paleomagnetism and finally of lunar magnetism and its evidence for an early lunar dynamo.