MyMoon Blog

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

SCOOPING THE SOVIETS

In 1966, British astronomers tracked a Soviet spacecraft on its way to the Moon. They "stole" the signals containing information that would be put together to create the first image of another planetary body, the Moon. The Institute's Dr. ...

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Happenings around the Community

INOMN 2011

Folks from around the world (over 500,000 in 52 countries, to be exact) participated in International Observe the Moon Night on September 18, 2010. InOMN, as the event is affectionately called, is intended to be a night when people take the time to step out and look up at Luna. It's there. Everyday. All you have to do is go out and look. ...

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Politics of the Moon and Beyond

DISMANTLE NASA?

That's what former Apollo astronaut and U.S. Senator Harrison "Jack" Schmitt is proposing. He suggests NASA go away and be replaced by the National Space Exploration Administration. The NSEA would focus on exploration (engineers, astronauts, etc.) while planetary science, astrophyics, earth science, and heliophysics research gets handed over to the National Science ...

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Politics of the Moon and Beyond

A RATIONALE FOR CISLUNAR SPACE: WHAT?

Cislunar space? What? As defined by the Space Wiki, cislunar space is ...

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Other Weird Stuff

PEEPS AND RICK ASTLEY

You've been Rick Rolled!! Sort of. Peeps and Rick Astley are not related in this posting. They are just the two subjects. First, Peeps. I stumbled upon an infographic this afternoon - "Ten Fun Facts About Peeps." Indeed, they are fun facts. See the infographic here. ...

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Other Weird Stuff

FLY ME OVER THE MOON'S CRATERS

With apologies to Frank and everyone else who recorded the great standard, Fly me to the Moon.I took a lot of great classes during grad school at the University of Arizona My favorite of all was Geology of the Solar System. I enjoyed learning how geology concepts are applied to the study of ...

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Arts & Entertainment

DIRECTOR DUNCAN JONES INTERVIEW

If you're one of the three people who haven't seen Duncan's movie Moon do yourself a favor and Netflix it. Tonight! Source Code, his new film is amazing sci-fi thriller features Jake Gyllenhaal's dreamy brows. See that too, because it was amazeballs! So where does MyMoon fit into all this? To say Moon is popular around MyMoon Towers is an understatement. Production of ...

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Happenings around the Community

LPSC: DEFINING PLANETARY SCIENCE

THE WOODLANDS, Texas – If you looked into the sky this weekend, you may have been witness to the phenomenon of the Super Moon, which occurs approximately once every 18 years. When events such as this happen, it sparks a universal conversation about space, the Moon, and what it means in relation to us — the common theme among these topics: planetary science. Just a few weeks ago, similar ...

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Lunar Science and Mission News

THE MOON’S ROLE IN CLIMATE SCIENCE

The Institute's Dr. Paul Spudis posts a second blog this week! His most recent blog explains how the Moon holds the history of solar activity and how that relates to climate change on the Earth. Yet another reason to go back to the Moon. ...

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Lunar Science and Mission News

VOLCANIC SHIELDS OF THE MOON

The Institute's Dr. Paul Spudis discusses lunar shield volcanoes in his latest blog entry from "The Once and Future Moon."

Come home with your shield, or on it. – Spartan women to their husbands, marching off to war. ...

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MyMoon Announcements

MADLIBS: APOLLO 17

Apollo 17 Madlib submissions can be found in this blog's comments. You can submit your own Madlib here!

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COMMUNITY BLOGGERS:
TOPIC OF THE WEEK: WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT THE MOON?

The Moon ain't what it used to be. People gush about asteroids, Mars, Jovian moons, exoplanets...but it feels like if you bring up the Moon, you mostly just get either a blank or a 'meh'. When ...

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ASTRONOMY DAY AND STARGAZING WITH THE MOON

Today is Astronomy Day, and one of the best ways to celebrate is by going out and doing some stargazing. And one of the best ways to get started with stargazing is to use the Moon as a guide and ...

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TOPIC OF THE WEEK: LIFE IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

The mission of the Kepler Project is to discover habitable planets orbiting other stars. However, many of these planets are light years away and unreachable by humans with our current technology. So ...

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TOPIC OF THE WEEK: MOON EXPLORATION

Sorry for the late post everyone, has been a very busy week. But as for the topic of the week, I plan on talking about the exploration of the Moon, mainly the history and the alll of the lunar ...

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TOPIC OF THE WEEK: ASTEROID DETECTION

The recent meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia helped bring to light a very real problem. We do not have adequate ways to detect many of the damage causing asteroids impacting the ...

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