Volcanism Within the Solar System: The Moon Once Being Volcanically Active, the Age of the Rocks Exported From the Moon During U.S Government Agency the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Project Apollo Space Program, the Rock Type Discovered by Astronauts Upon the Moon During the Apollo 11 Mission, How to Identify Basalt Rock Upon the Moon From the Earth, the Reason the Earth is Volcanically Active But the Moon’s Volcanic Activity is Now Dormant, the Largest Mountain Ever Discovered, the Size of the Olympus Mons (Mount Olympus) Volcano Upon Mars, the Altitude Commercial Aircraft Fly, the Reason the Earth Will Never Develop a Volcano as Large as Olympus Mons, the Number of Tectonic Plates the Earth Possesses, the Only Planet Within the Solar System Which Possesses Tectonic Plates, the Number of Active Volcanos Upon Jupiter’s Moon Io, the Number of Active Volcanos Upon Earth, the Concept of “Ultramafic” (Ultrabasic) Magma and the Reason Io Produces Ultramafic Magma, the Period When Ultramafic Magma Was Abundant Upon Earth, the Benefit of Volcanos for Planets, the Planet With the Densest Solar System and the Greatest Temperature, the Reason Venus Has a Dense Atmosphere, the Planet With the Largest Volume of Volcanos and Craters, the Size of Volcanos Upon Venus, the Concept of “Pancake Domes”, the Volcanos of Iceland vs the Volcanos of Venus, the Reason Pancake Domes Formulate Atop Volcanos Upon Venus, the Reason Volcanos Created the Ocean and an Ideal Atmosphere for the Earth, the 3 Requirements of All Life Upon Earth and the Resource Which Provides These Necessities, and the Probability of Life Being Supported Upon Planets and Moons Outside of the Earth

The moon was once volcanically active with evidence of this volcanism left behind. The Apollo missions brought back rocks from the moon which were dated to be 4,000,000,000 (4 billion) years in age. The Apollo astronauts immediately noticed basalt rock upon their initial mission to the moon and this basalt rock could only have formed with volcanos present. The basalt rock on the moon can be seen with the naked eye and appears as the darker spots of the moon as the basalt has filled in the crater...


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