The
drag pressure across the surface area of the fabric is enough to slow descent to a safe speed
. On the moon, there is no atmosphere — and therefore no aerodynamic drag to slow the fall of high surface area objects. If you were to use a parachute on the moon, you'd end up looking pretty silly and possibly broken.
What happens if you drop a feather on the moon?
Hence an object dropped from a given height will
take longer
to fall to the surface on the Moon than it would on the Earth. … If you tried this experiment on Earth with say a hammer and feather, the hammer would hit the ground first because the feather would be slowed down more by air resistance.
Who dropped the feather on the moon?
At the end of the last Apollo 15 Moon walk,
Commander David Scott
performed a live demonstration for the television cameras. As over 600 million people watched on live TV, he held out a geologic hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time.
When an astronaut stands on the moon and drops a hammer and a feather at the same time?
Astronaut David Scott
re-created, in 1971 during the Apollo 15 mission, Galileo's “falling bodies” experiment by dropping a hammer and feather on the moon at the same time. Simply, both fell at the same rate because there was no air resistance.
Would a hammer and feather on the moon?
English: Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott demonstrates that
the mass of an object does not affect the time it takes to fall
, using a hammer and a feather on the Moon.
Can you take fall damage on the moon?
What distance is required to have that speed on the moon? The answer is
about 43 meters
. Of course, that's the serious injury level, and in fact the fall distance might well be less than that, as you lose bone mass from being in low gravity for so long.
What would happen if you jumped on the moon?
The moon is just over a quarter of the size of the Earth. But if it had the same mass, then the moon's gravity would be about 14 times stronger than Earth's and you'd hardly be able to jump at all. If that same mass was squeezed down to the size of a village,
it'd become a black hole
, and we'd all be sucked into it.
Does a feather fall faster than a brick?
You may wonder, then, why feathers float gently in the breeze instead of falling to the ground quickly, like a brick does. Well, it's because
the air offers much greater resistance to the falling motion of the feather than it does to the brick
.
Do heavier objects fall faster?
Acceleration of Falling Objects
Heavier things have a greater gravitational force
AND heavier things have a lower acceleration. It turns out that these two effects exactly cancel to make falling objects have the same acceleration regardless of mass.
Would a feather fall on the moon?
Galileo had concluded that all objects, regardless of mass, fall at the same speed — however, the resistance caused by the air (as in the case of the feather in Earth's atmosphere) can cause the feather to drop slower. Well,
on the moon there is no atmosphere (a vacuum)
, so the objects should drop at the same speed.
Why the ball falls down whereas Earth doesn't move?
The earth will curve away faster than the ball can fall towards it
. As a result, the ball will continually fall and miss and will end up circling the earth. This is exactly what satellites do. To get an object to orbit the earth, you just have to give it enough sideways speed that it will miss the earth as it falls.
Is there air on the moon?
Despite their ‘airless' appearance, both Mercury and the Moon have thin, tenuous atmospheres. With no detectable gases,
the Moon appears to be atmosphere-free
.
What is the weight of a person on the moon?
Your weight on the Moon is
16.5% what you would experience on Earth
. In other words, if you weighed 100 kg on Earth, you would weigh a mere 16.5 kg on the Moon. For you imperial folks, imagine you tipped the scales at 200 pounds. Your weight on the Moon would only be 33 pounds.
Will a heavier ball hit the ground first?
In other words, if two objects are the same size but one is heavier, the heavier one has greater density than the lighter object. Therefore, when both objects are dropped from the same height and at the same time,
the heavier object should hit the ground before the lighter one
.
Why would a parachute be useless on the moon?
The Moon has no atmosphere so
there is no drag on the capsule to slow its descent
; parachutes will not work. Lunar landing vehicles were equipped with rocket engines that were fired by the pilot to provide lift — thrust in the opposite direction of descent — during the rapid descent to the Moon's surface.
Which will hit the ground first?
The correct answer is
the last one
: the two will hit the ground at the exact same time. This is because gravity accelerates all objects equally, even if one object is heavier than the other. mini cucumber, a rock and pebble and they all have the same result.
