A release from NASA: NASA’s Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon’s Surface Gravity PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon’s gravity uneven, a phenomenon […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA’s Lunar Impact Monitoring program spotted a bright impact on the Moon last week: Explosion On The Moon – science20.com Watch the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen on the Moon – Wired Science/Wired.com This NASA ScienceCast video shows the resulting explosion:
The water on the earth and Moon tells a story about their creation and development that still hasn’t been read all the way to the end: Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet” – The Once and Future Moon.
Lunar settlement advocate Christopher Carson (Luna Project) has a prominent role in the documentary Lunarcy! (2012). Moonandback spoke with him at the recent Space Access ’13 conference in Phoenix: Christopher Carson – Lunarcy: The Movie – Moonandback Christopher Carson – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sarah Cruddas, “Scientist, Presenter, Reporter”, talked with David Livingston on Friday about “UK space development, interests, commerce, and journalism, space tourism, China, space policy”: Sarah Cruddas, Friday, 5-3-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog === Here is a video of Yariv Bash, CEO […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Paul Spudis explains that the Apollo lunar samples, seismic station measurements, and other data have not solved some fundamental issues regarding the Moon’s crust, mantle, and impact craters: Thin Crust Moon – The Once and Future Moon.
Here’s a cool Zoom.it hi-res display of a view of the Moon created by amateur astronomer AstroMike247. (Link via universetoday.com.) More of his images at Flickr: Mike24742′s Photostream.
Here’s a report on the recent gathering of Google Lunar X PRIZE teams in Chile: Lunar Roundup: 2013 Team Summit in Chile - Google Lunar X PRIZE. 20 of the teams were available to make presentations at the Summit, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Paul Spudis reviews the evidence for water in Shackleton Crater at the Moon’s south pole: The Mystery of Shackleton Crater – The Once and Future Moon.
Glad to see that the crowd-sourcing campaign to support the recovery of images of the Moon on magnetic tape date from unmanned lunar probe missions in the 1960s has succeeded in raising substantial funding: Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This video describes the areas within some craters at the lunar south polar region that sunlight never reaches. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, however, uses a laser altimeter system to measure the topology of those dark places. More info at Goddard […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (pdf) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Orion/MoonRise: a Joint Human/Robotic Sample Return Mission from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Moon Zoo participants may start scanning the lunar surface to look for a crater in the area where a disputed flash was photographed in 1953 by amateur astronomer Leon Stuart : Stuart’s Event – Moon Zoo Blog.
Danielle Signor has posted a collection of gorgeous looking Moon-themed mechanical wrist watches: Moon Watching — Silver Rockets. For example, there is the Cyrus Klepcys Watch
Via Moonandback comes this beautiful real time video from Mark Gee of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. People had gathered up there this night to get the best view possible of the moon […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Using stereo imagery from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) to create a 3D model, this video shows a flyover of Linne Crater:
The February issue of the Moon Society‘s monthly newsletter – Moon Miners’ Manifesto – has been released. Join the society to access the publication on-line or to receive a hard-copy in the mail. Here’s a description of the contents in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ed Wright has an interesting discussion about how the Moon appears to people in space: The Moon From Space – Citizens in Space.
I often talk here about the proliferation of citizen science projects. I thought I would scan the blogs of four space related projects at Zooniverse and see what their blogs are talking about these days. * Planet Hunters - In […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Planetary Society Hangout on Jan 31, 2013 welcomed Sarah Noble, a lunar geologist and a member of the Research & Analysis program at NASA Headquarters. She talked about the space science program and in particular how space science proposals […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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