月に刻まれている無数のクレーターを繊細に表現することがこの製品化プロジェクトのチャレンジです。ところで、月にはなぜあのような多数のクレーターが刻まれているのでしょうか。
そもそも地球に対してもたくさんの隕石が落ちてきています。地球は月よりも大きく重力も強いため、なおさらです。しかし、大気があるためそのほとんどは大気中で燃え尽きてしまうのです。
これに対して、月には空気がないので、毎日降りそそぐ隕石が月に激突し、それがクレーターとして何百年も残ることになるのです。
By the way, why are they so many craters on the moon?
In the first place,many meteorites fell also to the Earth. As the Earth is larger than moon and gravitational pull is stronger than moon, more meteorites fell down. However, most meteorites burn down, as atmosphere exists in the Earth.
On the other hand, there is no atmosphere in the moon, so meteorites fall down everyday to the moon crash dynamically on the surface and the traces are left as crater for hundreds of years.
The Earth is havig so many fallen meteorites. As the Earth has stronger gravity than the moon does, the Earth attracts more meteorites. Becauase there is the atmosphere covering the Earth, most of the meteorites burn out while they are falling in the atmosphere.
Whereas you have no atmsphere on the moon, meteorites falling on the moon everyday collide with the moon surface making craters that remains there for hundreds of years.
In the first place many meteorites fall on the earth, too. Or even more on it because the gravity is greater here than on the moon. However, most of them burn out in the atmosphere surrounding the earth.
In contrast, because there is no air on the moon, the meteorites falling every day crash into the moon, leaving craters for several hundred years .
There are so many meteorites that fall onto earth to begin with. Earth weighs more than moon and gravity is also stronger. However, because of the atmospheric air, most of them die out in the atmosphere air. Whereas, air doesn't exist on moon therefore, meteorites that hit moon will stay there as ceaters for hundreds of years.