MyMoon Blog
NASA and MyMoon have teamed up to blog about everything lunar. Art, literature, music, movies, science, and everything in between!
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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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Lunar Exploration History
COMEDY ON THE MOON: THE FUNNIEST APOLLO MOMENTS
From Apollo 11 to Apollo 13, from “Houston, we’ve had a problem” to “One small step for a man”, there were a lot of serious or dramatic moments during the Apollo missions. What a lot of people don’t know, though, is that there were a lot of really funny moments, too.
/Facepalm.
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Lunar Exploration and Engineering
EXPLORATION OF THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON
One of the many unexplored regions of our solar system is the far side of the moon. Everyone knows about the Apollo misions o the Moon. However, one thing that people may not know about the moon is that we always see the same side, and that this is the only side of the moon that has been explored. However, NASA is developing a rover that would be capable of exploring the far side of the m ...
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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 ...Read More Comments [1]
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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 ...Read More Comments [2]
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MOON'S LUMPY GRAVITY EXPLAINED
In a recent article published on space.com, researchers discuss what causes the lumpy gravity of the Moon. As many people may know, the Moon has an odd gravity field. For example, one perturbation ...
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TITAN: WHERE METHANE FLOWS LIKE WATER!
Our Moon isn’t the only interesting natural satellite in our solar system. It turns out that there are a large number of fascinating ...Read More Comments [2]
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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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