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* Scientific Expeditions - Apollo:

Dr. Farouk El-Baz

● Born in 1938 in Zagazig, Arab Republic of Egypt.

● He now works as Director of Research at the Center for the Study of Earth and Planets at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. His levels include managing and directing research on the scientific results of the Apollo project and their application to earth and planetary sciences.

He worked for six years in Bell Boshnen laboratories, supervised the planning of lunar explorations, and participated in all the committees that selected the landing areas on the moon.

● He graduated from Cairo University and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1964.

● Participate in the membership of many national and international scientific and professional societies.

● He wrote more than 80 scientific papers and articles, co-authored three books, and won several scientific and honorary awards.

● He now lives in Islington, Virginia, USA.

The great professor Farouk El-Baz says:

The moon consists, just like the earth, of an outer crust, an inner core, and then a core or core. As for the lunar crust, its thickness is about 70 kilometers (although the thickness of the earth’s crust ranges between five kilometers under the seas and 35 kilometers under the continents).

Then comes the inner subsoil, which is approximately 1,700 km thick. It consists of hard igneous rocks. As for the core or core in the center of the moon, its thickness is approximately 500 km, and we believe that it contains some molten matter. This means that the radius of the moon reaches about 1,740 kilometers, and it is mostly composed of rocks, most of which are solid.

Before the "Apollo" trips to the moon, there were three theories explaining the origin of the moon: The first: It is likely that the moon, like a pair of the earth, was wandering in the sky, then the earth attracted it, so it rotated in its orbit.

_ The second: It is likely that the moon, as a full brother to the earth, was separated from the same mother from which the earth was separated.

_ The third: It is likely that the moon, like the son of the earth, split from it after it was formed, but before its rocks hardened.

The power of the Creator is of great importance. And that he dominates the vast universe and directs it with great regularity. And the more we know, the more it becomes clear to us that we know only atoms of God’s knowledge, “And you have been given only a little knowledge.”

It is also important that science continues to take great strides in the path of knowledge. knowledge is good for humanity; Moon studies, for example, have shown us a lot. In the same way, the Apollo flights showed us the best ways to explore the planets of the solar system, such as Venus and Mars, for example, and the Apollo experiments also taught us how to study the Earth from its orbit using manned and unmanned spaceships.

After all that we have learned from the Apollo trips, today we cannot prove exactly which one of these theories, as the moon still contains many secrets, especially since the Apollo trips explored a very small part of the vast surface of the moon.

All that we know to this day about the origin of the moon is that the earth and the moon have a very close relationship.

We also know that the moon, as a result of its small size (it is a quarter of the size of the earth), has not changed as the earth has changed. And the absence of water on its surface, as well as the absence of volcanoes on it. Its surface has been around for a long time (about 3,000,000,000 years ago). As for the Earth, it has changed a lot since its creation, and it is still changing somewhat every day. Therefore, today we can consider the study of moon rocks as a window or a window through which we look at the history of the moon.
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* The power of the Creator is great:

The important thing in all of this is that science has not been able to explain the universe and all its secrets, so science is still in love, but the important thing is that we always try to learn the capacity of our minds, from what God created in the heavens and the earth, “And on the earth are signs for those who are certain (1).