All posts tagged Moon
Giant Impact: making the moon
It began… where it always begins — out there — in the vastness of space. What would it look like, that void of empty nothingness? So early on in the sound of creation, indescribable things all around. Not yet planets, [...]
Neil Armstrong’s speech in Sydney 24 August 2011
UPDATE: Regrettably, the CPA engaged lawyers to threaten me with everything they could think of if I didn’t pull the recording (below). So pull it I have. Please feel free to pass on any feelings about this to them. At least for [...]
The whole Earth-side of the Moon should be protected forever
Earlier this year, the New York Times had an interesting piece about museums seeking to protect small areas of the Moon around the Apollo landing sites. And a good thing too: “…the next generation of people visiting the moon might carelessly obliterate [...]
Who found the water on the Moon?
At just over two tonnes, the second stage of an Atlas V rocket, makes for an unusual ‘kinetic probe’. Nonetheless on October 9, 2009 NASA deliberately impacted a spent Centaur rocket into the lunar south polar crater Cabeus. The target [...]
GRAIL mission on final approach to Moon
If everything proceeds according to the plan, NASA’s GRAIL will enter the orbit tomorrow at 1:21 pm. GRAIL is a spacecraft designed and dedicated to monitor the orbit of moon. It will be launched in to the space tomorrow. GRAIL-A [...]