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Old November 23rd 09, 06:15 AM posted to sci.space.policy
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I wonder how much heat is underground in the moon, Mars &al.

How far down would we need to go to have comfortable temperatures?


I know in this environmental age, panspermia seems offensive, but if
life on solid earth was commenced by a few hardy fungi..

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Old November 30th 09, 03:39 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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On Nov 29, 9:51*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
wrote:

: I wonder how much heat is underground in the moon, Mars &al.
:
: How far down would we need to go to have comfortable temperatures?
:
:They think the Moon is solid all the way through, so digging into it
:won't help.
:

Solid all the way through doesn't equate to isothermal to the center.
The Apollo heat flow experiments indicate that the lunar surface is
losing heat at values around 20% those of Earth, so temperatures are
going to increase with depth.

However, we don't really know what the thermal structure of the Moon
looks like with depth, so there's no way to say how deep you'd have to
go to get to a particular temperature.

:
:The jury is still out on whether Mars has a hot core, although it
:doesn't have a magnetic field like Earth's molten core gives it.
:

Again, this doesn't mean it doesn't still get warmer with depth.

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As with our unusual moon, whereas most of the radioactive elements are
held within the thick crust. Below that robust lunar crust could be
relatively low density and cool stuff, at best warm (not hot).

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Old November 30th 09, 03:48 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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On Nov 22, 9:15*pm, wrote:
I wonder how much heat is underground in the moon, Mars &al.

How far down would we need to go to have comfortable temperatures?

I know in this environmental age, panspermia seems offensive, but if
life on solid earth was commenced by a few hardy fungi..

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Bugs and fungi within the moon is technically doable.

Its core isn't very massive, and it's an offset core by 10% radii.

The moon should also be at least 0.1% hollow.

Panspermia is most likely what seeded Earth, because most everything
out there is a hell of a lot older than Earth.

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