This is special Moon Monday where I go in depth on a topic. So here’s a primer on how we found water on the Moon.
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Twists and turns in the Moon’s Grand Canyon
Seen here is a lava-carved channel within another lava-carved channel on the Moon!
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Put on your 3D glasses 😎️. Seen here is a 3D image of the Hell Q crater, made using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
Continue reading “3D Moon images and how to snap them!”How do mountains form inside craters on the Moon?
Seen here is an animated model showing how mountains form at the center of large craters on the Moon.
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Some Moon missions that ended up in a crash were a success! We’re talking about the NASA Ranger missions that intentionally hit the Moon.
Continue reading “It’s craters all the way down! – NASA Ranger missions”The tiniest of impact craters [Guest post]
When we think about craters on the Moon, we usually think of ones that can be seen with a telescope. But there are also ones we can only see with a microscope, like today’s featured image of a micro-sized crater on a Moon rock!
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Seen here is the huge Apollo crater on the Moon’s farside, named after the the incredibly successful Apollo landing missions.
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Seen here are fluid lava flows on the Moon, in the young crater of Pytheas.
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Seen here the 4 km tall and 25 km wide Haldey mountain as captured from orbit by Apollo 15.
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Swirls are a rare lunar surface feature, bright and curvy shapes on the lunar soil. Seen below are a swarm of lunar swirls in the Ingenii crater.
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Seen here is the large Aitken crater on the farside of the Moon, hosting a complex array of terrain features.
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On the occasion of Apollo’s 50th anniversary last week, here is a special edition of Moon Monday to learn about several Apollo landing sites.
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