From time to time it is possible to capture the brightness of an asteroid impacting the moon, it is a brief flash, they are usually asteroids of a few meters and when that happens a fairly typical question arises; How is it possible for a glow or flames to occur on the moon if there is no air? Flames are obviously not, flames need oxygen to exist to produce this combustion and on Earth flames are possible because our atmosphere is composed of 21 percent of oxygen.
If, for example, you were on Titan, the giant moon of Saturn, and you managed to throw a match into one of those large hydrocarbon lakes, absolutely nothing would happen, since Titan's atmosphere has no oxygen, there would be no reaction, there would be no explosion, there would be no flames, nothing would burn, in fact, you couldn't even light the match, the same thing would happen on Mars, the Martian atmosphere is fundamentally CO2, there is no oxygen, you can't light a match there either.
On the moon there is obviously no oxygen either, there is no atmosphere, but if you hit or brush against something on either the moon, Titan or Mars you will be generating heat, an asteroid that impacts the surface of the moon of Mars or Titan would carry kinetic energy and the impact will generate a lot of heat and that makes the rocks shine so intensely that we can see that shine from the Earth, not only the rocks, but the fragments and sparks released by the impact of an asteroid on the lunar surface.
In the video you can see the drill of this Probe that is now on the moon, it makes sparks fly that are actually tiny fragments of rock heated by the friction of the drill, heated to the point that they glow from the heat, in reality it is the same thing that we would see here on Earth if we try to drill hitting a rock with a hammer, for example, sparks would fly depending on what the rock is like but if it is a hard rock it would fly sparks and this also gives us indications that there are also very rocks on the moon. hard
Another mission on the moon that did not do very well is the company Intuitive Machines because on March 7, NASA ended the mission of this Probe. It is seen lying down with its legs and in the background you can see the earth, this is the second mission that both the first and the second launched managed to softly land their cargo module on the lunar surface, well, it is not easy to land softly on the moon and especially a company that is just starting.
The problem with this module is that it was knocked down because I suspect it is due to a design error and when it was knocked down, the solar panels that must supply energy to the module were completely unusable to be able to supply all the scientific equipment they were carrying because they did not work, some scientific data was obtained but little was also created. of goods, transportation of materials and equipment to the moon, in order to install a permanent lunar base on the moon, is the objective of the Artemis program.
Always landing on the moon in the planned place is not easy at all, the Blue Ghost module did manage to land well, it did so 100 meters from its planned landing place, which is already quite good, but this one was 400 meters, this is a key issue in the colonization of the moon because if you are an astronaut who is in a base and your module with food, you can reach it with your vehicle as long as there is not a ravine or some cliff in the middle because obviously on the moon there are no roads.
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