MyMoon Blog

NASA and MyMoon have teamed up to blog about everything lunar. Art, literature, music, movies, science, and everything in between!

LUNAR SCIENCE AND MISSION NEWS

The latest on lunar science from recent missions at the Moon. Don’t worry; we won’t hit you with big words like “siderophile” and acronyms like C.O.L.B.E.R.T., unless you want us to. Wink, wink.

STS-118, FACEBOOK-ANGLE EDITION

If you've ever stood aiming your camera at your own face snapping pictures from progressively higher and higher angles in order to "look your best" then you know what I'm talking about. It's okay, we've all done it or we all know someone guilty of doing it on the regular. So imagine ...

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THE MOON'S CORE IS LIKE THE EARTH'S

So says results from a new NASA study. State-of-the-art seismological techniques applied to Apollo-era data suggest our moon has a core similar to Earth's. Uncovering details about the lunar core is critical for developing accurate models of the moon's formation. The data sheds light on the ...

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CRUSHED OR CUBED?

Dr. Paul Spudis explores the possible nature of the ice at the lunar poles. However, to really know what the ice is like, we need to land near it and see for ourselves. Although the discovery of ice on the Moon comes from a wide variety of different measurements, they are all “remote sensing.” ...

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A NATURAL LUNAR BRIDGE

LROC has spied a "natural bridge" on the Moon. On Earth, natural bridges form by erosion from wind, rain, etc. Erosion doesn't exist on the Moon, so how could this happen?

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GEOLOGICALLY ACTIVE MOON?

For years, scientists have assumed that the Moon is geologically inactive. New data from LRO shows this may not be the case.

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LUNAR EASTER EGG?

Is LRO trippin'? No, that's just silly. It's actually a digital elevation model, or DEM.

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