Since a compass will not work on the moon, how can you find your way?

Subject: Since a compass will not work on the moon, how can you find your way?

Date: Sun Jul 9 22:59:25 2000
Posted by Patrick Naylor
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: No school entered.
City: Irving State/Province: Texas Country: USA
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 963197965.As

Message:


In your archives you point out that since the moon does not have magenetic 
polar fields as the Earth does, then a compass would be useless on the 
moon. How could you navigate on the surface? Could you a system of 
longitude and latitude? How are craters and such located on the surface?

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