Rock and metal, like the Earth.

Humans brought some rocks back from it. There's one on display in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington DC which you can touch. I've touched it.

Disappointingly, Earth. It's just rocks and shit from Earth that have been irritated for around 2 billion years due to no atmosphere.

Cheese

The moon was formed after a rouge planet crashed into earth, so it’s basically the same stuff as earth. Mostly oxygen and silicon. The moon however has less gravity, so it did not retain an atmosphere of lighter elements.

Oxygen is the most abundant element in the Earth's crust as well, making up almost 50%. It is also the third most abundant element in the universe and the most abundant element that required stellar fusion to produce (hydrogen and helium and a small amount of lithium and even tinier amount of berillium were created shortly after the Big Bang in the epoch of Big Band Nucleosynthesis, but every other element has been created in the heart of stars). So there's nothing weird about there being lots of it in the moon.

One of the reasons why the moon is a great jump-off point for a launch facility/base. Oxygen is needed for rocket fuel, and it would be much easier to produce at least part of the fuel mixture up there instead of here. And then obviously we breathe oxygen, so that helps too lol.

This is both true and irrelevant. The energy costs of freeing oxygen from anorthosite or basalt would be astronomical 😎

That's pretty neat. I didn't realize it was so high. TIL thanks.

Only the regolith is 42% oxygen by weight. Mineral oxides are less dense and rose to the surface when the moon was still molten in a process called planetary differentiation. The fact that this does not happen in asteroids due to their low mass is why they are so rich in many precious metals compared to larger bodies.

Cheese.

Trump has just announced that the next lunar expedition will be to set up a cheese mining operation.

It'll be incredible he said, I know more about cheese mining than anyone else in the world he said, we'll have a cheese pipeline connecting the moon with the earth and never run out of cheese for our Big Mac's again.

Atoms

moon

Lego bricks.

Either Cheesy Rocks

Or Rocky Cheese.

Moon

That's so beautiful!

This is so cute

Meet me there after i'm gone!

well, the Moon is mostly made of iron, other metals found on the moon are magnesium, aluminum, silicon, titanium, gold, silver, and the entire planet of Mercury

That’s incredible detailing! Kudos.

Wow, this is pretty awesome. Real pretty, too!

Very well done!!

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I also want to know because I'm curious. I'd also like to know if any of these materials exist on Earth, or are known by other names I would have heard of? (Obviously except titanium)

Did you try reading the wiki articles on those minerals? The first paragraph of the article on anorthosite, for example, answers your question about its relationship to plagioclase.

There is even an article on the moon's composition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Moon

Cheese.

It’s frozen milk because space is cold 💡

You still believe in the moon?

Earth

Cheese, obviously!

Moon. What else would it be made of?

No mate. It's Wensleydale. I saw the documentary about it, Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out.

Silly ideas people get. Gouda indeed!

Since the moon landing NASA has been turning it into the traditional American processed cheese.

Swiss. You can see the holes.

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Stilton, or Comté. All cheeses known for their hard outer crusts and hollow interiors.

The moon is not made from cheese, you're thinking of the sun. The moon is made from butter.

👍 yeah you are definately right

Just send me a little bit of moon

This could work on r/twosentencecomedy too lol, I love this

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Facts.

I highly doubt the moon is made of high schoolers named adam