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Revision as of 05:57, 24 February 2020
The Mün or as we refer to a Mun in this wiki is the one and only natural moon of Kerbin. It also holds the record for largest moon relative to its planet in the Kerbol System.
In-game Description
"The Mun, is a large satellite orbiting Kerbin. It is mostly grey in appearance, with craters of various sizes dotting its otherwise smooth surface.
The Mun's discovery is widely regarded as one of the more important breakthroughs of Kerbal evolution. Granted it didn’t happen all that long ago, but its still fair to say that Kerbals are wiser and more evolved now than they were back then."
Physical Characteristics
The Mun is a grey, round body orbiting Kerbin. In fact, it is one of the largest moons in the Kerbol System.
The Mun is the most well known object in the night sky because of its proximity and brightness to Kerbin. The surface is dotted with craters from 4 billion years of small impacts, but on the Kerbin-facing side large flat maria exist where lava used to sit from the Mun's formation. Those areas are darker and much flatter than the uneven, cratery surface of the far side.
Exosphere
The Mun hosts a tenuous atmosphere clinging to the surface, made mostly of charged particles being blasted off of the surface by Kerbol, and dust kicked up from small meteorite impacts. Even though the atmosphere can be detected with sensitive instruments, by all purposes it can be considered a vacuum.
Orbit - Rotation
Like almost every moon, the Mun is tidally locked to Kerbin, rotation once every orbit. Since the formation of the Mun, it has been slowly moving away from Kerbin. Eventually, if the Mun and Kerbin aren't incinerated by Kerbol, the Mun would eventually leave the SOI of Kerbin and become its own planet.
History of Observation
The Mun is one of the most well known objects in the sky, other than Kerbol. It has been recorded since the ancient times, but has only been closely observed for about 800 years, when Kallileo Kerman pointed a telescope to observe the maria and the craters on the Mun.
Biomes
- Northern Impact Basin
- Maria Impact Basin
- Maria
- Kopernicus Crater
- Prominent Craters
- Polar Region
- Kelandra Crater
- Highlands
- Midlands
- Lowlands
Gallery
A small lander surveying the surface of the Mun
A kerbal on the Mun
Kerbinrise
Trivia
- Although to kerbals the Mun appears very bright, it is actually a dark gray, which is the color the players see in-game.