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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MyMoon Announcements

WEBCAST ARCHIVE LINKS

They are back up and running! They can be accessed on the MyMoon Facebook group page under the "Discussions" tab.

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Lunar Science and Mission News

WEBCAST ARCHIVE PROBLEMS

We have discovered that many of the links to past webcast recordings (found on the MyMoon Facebook group page under the "Discussions" tab) require you to login to access them. This is not normal. We are currently working with the good folks at NASA Ames to get this cleared up. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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Lunar Science and Mission News

THANK YOU NEIL!

Awesome webcast Wednesday night with Dr. Neil Comins! Great questions from the audience, too. Next webcast victim is LPI's Dr. Paul Spudis on April 7th. Watch the MyMoon site for more details.

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NEW LRO FLYOVER

Here's another cool flyover of the Moon. This animation was put together using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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MOON ROCKERS

This weekend MyMoon will be interviewing bands at the music festival at SXSW. We have interviews lined up with "We Are Scientists", "Moondoggies", "Moonrats", "Moonduo", "Past Lives", and "Les Savy Fav." Be part of the interview! Send us your questions through Twitter, @MyMoonLPI.

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SHOULD WE CARE?

Who better to sound off on the president's new budget, and direction, for NASA than the Apollo astronauts? Buzz Aldrin certainly has. Buzz jumped right in and gave his favorable opinion after the release of the ...

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NASA RELEASES LRO DATA

The good news is NASA released a bunch of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data to the public on March 15th. The bad news is the data was released on the Planetary Data System. If I were you, I would just check out the Planetary Photojournal for the ...

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Other Weird Stuff

SO MUCH GOING ON

So things have been wacky for the MyMoon staff the past few weeks. Last week we spent our time at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. What an awesome conference! LPSC is only the largest conference of its kind in the solar system. There's so much to learn. There is also the Hawaii party, but that's another story for another time. The ...

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NOW THE JAPANESE ARE LOSING FUNDING

Japan has decided to cut funding for the development of a their own lunar lander.

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NEW POLL: WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MOON?

Around these parts (that is, western culture) we refer to "The Man in the Moon." This "face" we see in the Moon is a pattern formed by the dark lunar mare. But what about other cultures? What do Chinese stories say about the dark patterns on the Moon? How about the ancient Aztec culture? You can learn about these at MyMoon's ...

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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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