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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Politics of the Moon and Beyond

TOPIC OF THE WEEK: GOVERNMENT FOR THE MOON?

Right now, Moon government or governance is pretty minimal. Sort of-kind of overseen by the UN, there's been some wild claims and hopes otherwise, but the Moon is basically governed ...

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

3D PRINTING AND THE MOON: MAKING MOON TOOLS, ENTIRE BUILDINGS, + MORE

3D printing---which takes a digital model and, layer by layer, reproduces it---is set to change the world with its incredibly efficient and space-convenient manufacturing. ...

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

TOPIC OF THE WEEK: JUST A COLLECTION OF NUTS AND BOLTS, OR SOMETHING MORE?

Tom Carlone will be joining us on MyMoon this Wednesday (November 28) at 8 pm ET for a live webcast. He will be discussing and fielding questions about the Polaris rover project, a prototype for a rover that will be searching for volatile substances on the Moon like water, oxygen, and methane. Be sure to drop by and learn more about the Polaris rover project! In the meantime, we can talk a ...

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Commercial Space

AUGMENTED INFINITY

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The Moon in Culture

SEVEN GREAT SHOTS FROM THE SOLAR ECLIPSE (AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND MORE)

When it comes to a solar eclipse, a lot of the talk tends to revolve around the Sun. But, one thing to remember is that the Moon is, literally, front-and-center during these events! So, in honor of our friend the Moon showing the Sun who’s boss, here’s seven of the best photos of the solar eclipse that Australia, New Zealand, and others got to see yesterday: ...

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Commercial Space

TOPIC OF THE WEEK: GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE - ROVER MADNESS

The $30 million Google Lunar X Prize is a race to the Moon challenging private companies to be the first to land their own rover on the lunar surface, travel 500 meters, and send back video, audio, and data. Some teams may even send back high definition 3D video from the moon. With the aid of private companies like SpaceX, teams will not have to ...

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Other Weird Stuff

IF NO ONE IS LOOKING, IS THE MOON STILL THERE?

In the 1980s a very famous physicist, David Mermin, came out with a paper entitled "Is the Moon still there when no body looks..." The paper appeared in the April 1985 issue of Physics Today and is an experiment and explanation of quantum mechanics and reality. Which for those of you who are not physics majors, I'm sure this paper would bore you and be very tough to understand. I am ...

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Lunar Exploration and Engineering

TOPIC OF THE WEEK: HOME ON THE LAGRANGE?

NASA rendering of a Lagrange Point base beyond the Moon, via Cosmic Log. An idea that's been gaining steam lately is creating a settlement at a Lagrange Point---specifically, the EML-2 point beyond the ...

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Lunar Exploration History

DOUBT CONCERNING THE MOON LANDINGS CONTINUES...

Good morning all! I recently stumbled across a comment on one of our friend's Facebook pages refuting the truth of the Apollo Moon landings. As many of you have probably seen - this is an issue that MyMoon has tackled via the 'Conspiracy Showdown' poster on our homepage, where you can watch videos of scientists addressing the conspiracy claims and explaining the science of what was really going ...

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The Moon in Culture

THE MOON IN OTHER CULTURES

The moon is not only a satellite of the Earth. It also has many natural significances as well as religious and cultural significances. In nature, the Moon causes the tides of the ocean. http://www.greatdreams.com/moon/moon_worship.htm This is a link to a good page on the moon in other cultures and religions as well as the moon in mythology. The article begins with the moon in Hebrew ...

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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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