Learn About Earth's Nearest Neighbor - The Moon
In the first major Artemis update provided under the Biden-Harris Administration, NASA leadership discussed on November 9th the challenges and progress of America’s lunar exploration plans and reiterated a long-term commitment to exploring the Moon and sending astronauts to Mars.
The update follows a judge’s recent decision to uphold NASA’s selection of SpaceX to develop and demonstrate a modern human … Read the rest of this article
The payloads, including one from JPL, mark the agency’s first selections from its Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) call for proposals.
As NASA continues plans for multiple commercial deliveries to the Moon’s surface per year, the agency has selected three new scientific investigation payload suites to advance understanding of Earth’s nearest neighbor.
Two of … Read the rest of this article
NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh $199.5 million to deliver NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon’s South Pole in late 2023.
The water-seeking mobile VIPER robot will help pave the way for astronaut missions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024 and will bring NASA a step closer to developing a sustainable, long-term presence on the … Read the rest of this article
This video of lunar imagery taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter attempts to capture the mood of Claude Debussy’s best-known composition, Clair de Lune (Moonlight in French).
The music was originally published in 1905 as the third of four movements in the composer’s Suite Bergamasque. Clair is quiet, contemplative, and slightly melancholy, evoking the feeling of a solitary walk through … Read the rest of this article
July 27, 2018 sees the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century.
While this eclipse will be completely visible in Eastern Africa and Central Asia, viewers in Western Africa, Eastern Asia, South America, Europe, and Australia will only catch a partial glimpse.
The times in the image above (taken from my LunarPhase Pro software) are in UT (Universal Time … Read the rest of this article
Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle and actor Ryan Gosling have teamed up again for Universal Pictures’ First Man, the riveting story of NASA’s mission to land a man on the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the years 1961-1969.
A visceral, first-person account, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the movie will explore the sacrifices and the … Read the rest of this article
The watch is NASA certified and it has been worn by astronauts both in space and on the Moon. But while that’s fairly common knowledge, what’s no well-known is that there are 60 models of this watch/chronograph – one for every year of the Speedmaster’s existence.
For die-hard fans and collectors, that’s a lot to keep up with, not to … Read the rest of this article
Full Moon Names are different in every culture. Some are tied to the seasons. Some relate to the environment where people lived. While other names just seem very fanciful. The Full Moons throughout the year have been given names by various cultures down through the centuries (and probably millennia).
Since the Moon orbits the Earth roughly every 27 days, which … Read the rest of this article
We all know that the moon always presents the same face to observers since it takes as long to turn once on its axis as it does to complete one orbit of the Earth.
This is because the Moon … Read the rest of this article