The light beams of the Moon’s craters.

The centres of the Moon’s beams are the crater Copernic, Kepler, Aristarch. But the most powerful light system has Tikho the crater. The length of zone beams is about 2000km.

What substance forms the rays of the Moon craters? How did they appear?

In 1960 two soviet scientists Kirill Petrovich Stanukovich and Vitally Aleksandrovich Broshtein supposed the following explanation of these beams.

The meteorite shock at the Moon’s surface is accomplished by the burst: the kinetic energy is used for gushing out. The gushing out of the substances is made by the jets. That’s how the system of beams occur.

But why are the beams so light? As a matter of fact these beams consist of the split substance. But it is always lighter then the solid material. This was proved by Professor B.B. Sharonov and his assistant. And when the first astronauts landed the Moon and took the Moon’s soil for the investigation, this hypothesis was true.

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