Learn About Earth's Nearest Neighbor - The Moon
The Moon’s craters preserve billions of years of history.
Scientists have learned about the conditions of our early solar system by studying the composition, size, and distribution of these holes in the Moon’s surface, created long ago by collisions with asteroids.
But instead of directly studying the characteristics of these holes, a team based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center … Read the rest of this article
NASA is seeking proposals for sustainable lunar lander development and demonstration as the agency works toward a regular cadence of Moon landings.
Through Artemis missions, NASA is preparing to return humans to the Moon, including the first woman and first person of color, for long-term scientific discovery and exploration.
Under the solicitation, Human Landing System Sustaining Lunar … Read the rest of this article
It seems that the way the Moon moves in its orbit affects mangrove tree cover across Australia and new research suggests the it likely contributed to mass tree deaths in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
A study published in the journal Science Advances has found that an 18.61-year cycle known as the lunar nodal cycle shapes the condition of tidal wetlands.… Read the rest of this article
NASA have said that the technical problems that afflicted the first and second launch attempts of the Artemis I mission have now been fixed.
The third launch attempt date for what has been called “NASA’s Mega Moon Rocket” has been set for September 27th.
The Artemis I rocket is composed of two components – the 30 storey high Space Launch … Read the rest of this article
Chinese scientists have achieved a remarkable feat in their research of the Moon as they have discovered and identified the sixth new lunar mineral.
The China National Space Administration and the China Atomic Energy Authority jointly announced in Beijing on Friday, September 9thm 2022, that the new mineral – Changesite-(Y) – was found by scientists at the Beijing Research Institute … Read the rest of this article
NASA has selected Axiom Space to deliver a moonwalking system for the Artemis III mission, which will land Americans on the surface of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.
This award – the first one under a competitive spacesuits contract – is for a task order to develop a next generation Artemis spacesuit and supporting … Read the rest of this article
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 8, to discuss next steps for the Artemis I mission to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Audio of the call will livestream on NASA’s website.
Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test. It is … Read the rest of this article
The Harvest Moon is the full moon that’s closest to the Autumnal Equinox (September in the Northern Hemisphere and March in the Southern Hemisphere).
This year’s Harvest Moon reaches its full phase at about 9:58 UT (5:50AM EDT) on Saturday, September 10th.
After Summer gave us three Supermoons in a row and one very nearly Supermoon on May 16th — … Read the rest of this article
NASA officials have said that it may not be possible to try launching … Read the rest of this article
A vision of a future Moon settlement assembled from semi-buried inflatable habitats.
Sited beside the lunar poles in regions of near-perpetual solar illumination, mirrors positioned above each habitat would reflect sunlight into greenhouses within the doughnut-shaped habitats.
Inflatable structures specialist Pneumocell in Austria performed a system study of an inflatable lunar habitat, based on prefabricated ultralight structures.
Once inflated, … Read the rest of this article