Hello Friends, this is abhishek, on 16th June 1969 Apollo 11 landed on moon for the first time in history, the first man Neil Armstrong send a message to earth.
the message was tranquillity base here eagle has landed, mean their craft was named eagle and the place where they landed was base of tranquillity.
now the fascinating thing here is that who name the places on the moon, your city has a name your street has a name but who gave names to the moon?
today we will talk about this topic so be with us because it is going to be the best video ever, so when Apollo 11 landed on moon.
the landing was not accidental, NASA planned already to land on that place. The craft landed on sea of tranquillity,
this place is found at the southern western plain place on the moon which was the best place to land. to know who gave names to the moon we have to go to the old days.
we have to talk about 1610 when Galileo was using his telescope to observe moon, he observed moon for many years and studied a lot.
he made a map of the moon surface but he never gave any name to any place there, after Galileo 2 more scientist started working on moon map.
they were riccolio and gremaldi both of them made similar map like Galileo but they did some thing different with their map.
they cut the map into 8 parts like pizza and gave names to these 8 parts, those 8 parts had name as..
Serenity or tranquillity, these maps were too good that they are still used in the modern era.
Nasa used these maps very much in all of their findings.now lets come to modern age from ancient time you know that Russia put the first man in space.
also Russia was the first country to send probe to the moons dark side. there it took a lot of photos.
Russia gave names to these place on the basis of great astronomers and scientists.
but observation was not enough, NASA put the first man in history on the moon but never claimed any name on the moon.
after many years when many countries came forward to work in space a organization also appear.
this organization called International astronomical union and it was responsible for naming places in the space and moon.
these days many countries are working in space but they cannot force IAU but only suggest to name places on earth.
when IAU saw that many people are suggesting name for the space then they come up with few rules. If you want to suggest any name for the paces on moon.
they must be great scientist, astronomer in the field of space.
like we have many features on the surface of earth like volcanoes, crater ridges canyon similar features are available on moon as well. Like great canyon of America.
so to name these places it is important to name them to some one who has done something in the field of geology.
there are many people who are killed when they were working on a mission, like kalpana chawla and her entire crew died in a mission. IAU made sure that such people get names on the moon.
Galileo Copernicus and Archimedes for their names on moon, now the funny thing is that you don't know such name because space tourism is not started yet.
when general public starts going to the moon you will remember names easily like you remember name like newyork, Manhattan etc.
this will be a small tribute to the people who gave their lives for the sake of space exploration.
if you want to suggest IAU then please go ahead but make sure that the name must be a significant contributor in the field of space and science.
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