Moon Experiment

One of the most famous science experiemnts attributed to Galileo, was him going up the tower of Pisa and dropping two balls of different masses from a height. The experiment was meant to show that the balls reached the ground at the same time - i.e., irrespective of their differing masses.

Earlier this month, someone posted the NASA video of this experiment done on the moon. It's a very cool short clip of what really happens when you take away the effects of air resistance from this experiment. David Scott and Jim Irwin conducted the experiment on the Moon during their Apollo 15 mission.

I've embedded the video below, and you can download the original source from NASA's website.

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