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Dog
Days of August :
Ozone
Hole Forming In The Shape Of A Dog?
Ozone
Hole August 9,2001 Blue from Blue's Clues
If
you go out at night and look up at a full Moon, and you're like most people,
you'll probably see the face of a man, or, alternatively, a rabbit superimposed
on the bright disk of the Moon.
 
Because
of it's rotation and orbit we have always seen the same side of the moon, the
side with the face.
The
dark markings on the moon come from large basins on the surface that were
created when other space objects (meteors and asteroids) crashed into the moon
billions of years ago. The "eyes" of the face even have names; the
right eye is the Imbrue basin, and the left eye is the Serenitatis basin. The
rest of the features aren't quite as clearly "drawn", such as a nose
and mouth, but most people would agree that the moon appears to be watching us.
The
Moon may have a "Man in The Moon" but now apparently ,for one day ,
the ozone hole had a dog. On August 9, 2001 the formation of the ozone hole took
an uncanny resemblance to Blue from Blue's Clues. Blues Clues is a popular TV
show for children that “empowers, challenges, and builds the self-esteem of
preschoolers while making them laugh,” according to Dr. Alice Wilder, director
of research for Blue’s Clues.
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