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Zahlen, bitte! Riesenauflage dank Zeitungsente – The Moon Great Hoax
1835 erschienen in der New York Sun sechs Artikel über Leben auf dem Mond, die lange für Aufsehen sorgten – bis herauskam, dass sie frei erfunden waren.

Behind the scenes talk about how the English-language webcast of Japan's #SLIM landing on the Moon went: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxe3owbJr38#t=1h10m26s (from 1 hour 10 minutes 26 seconds) - see also https://cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/landing-on-the-moon-behind-the-scenes-of-the-night-when-slim-made-history/ for a related article and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/slim-vor-mond-landung-peregine-vor-erd-crash/ (from "Japans SLIM – mit zwei Extra-Vehikeln – vor der Mondlandung" in chronological order) for my live coverage back then, based on the JAXA webcast and direct reception of radio signals from the lander by radio amateurs with a 20 meter dish in my home town.

After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/after-recent-tests-china-appears-likely-to-beat-the-united-states-back-to-the-moon/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Brittany Davis:
🎵 Sun and Moon
#BrittanyDavis
https://brittany-davis.bandcamp.com/track/sun-and-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/56ZVz1WYmhu86W7ZQ85mud

I just woke up from light shining in my face. I assumed it was the rise of the moon, so while reaching for my glasses I swore "What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?"
Turns out it was a streetlamp.
#Babylon5

newly uncovered gynecological records indicate something or other about the moon and stars, possibly even obama

rocking my glow-in-the-dark three-wolf-moon t-shirt tonight!

Photo of the moon taken with my iPhone 17 Pro. (No filters)

Arguably, this guy got on the cover of the very best Pink Floyd album.
(although sometimes I think it's Animals. And sometimes The Dark Side of the Moon. And often I just can't choose one amongst those three)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05e0z9lj3mo

Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88
Ronnie Rondell Jr's decades-long career saw him appear in films and TV including Baywatch, Spartacus and The Matrix Reloaded.

Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA): Advancing the U.S. Priorities in Gravitational-wave and Lunar Science
Karan Jani, Matthew Abernathy, Emanuele Berti, Valerio Boschi, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Alice Cocoros, John W. Conklin, Teviet Creighton, Simone Dell'Agnello, Jean-Claude Diels, Stephen Eikenberry, T. Marshall Eubanks, Kiranjyot Gill, Jonathan E. Grindlay, Kris Izquierdo, Jaesung Lee, Abraham Loeb, Philippe Lognonn\'e, Francesco Longo, Manuel Pichardo Marcano, Mark Panni…

Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA): Advancing the U.S. Priorities in Gravitational-wave and Lunar Science
The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) is a next-generation gravitational-wave (GW) facility on the Moon. By harnessing the Moon's unique environment, LILA fills a critical observational gap in the mid-band GW spectrum ($0.1 - 10$ Hz) between terrestrial detectors (LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA) and the future space mission LISA. Observations enabled by LILA will fundamentally transform multi-messenger astrophysics and GW probes of fundamental physics. LILA will measure the lunar deep interior bett…

NASA’s recent confirmation of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 landing on the Moon signifies a transformative moment in the realm of space exploration.
The private American spacecraft successfully touched down near Mons Latreille in Mare Crisium, marking a milestone for NASA and its commercial partners.
Source: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel

NASA Confirms Private Spacecraft Successfully Lands on the Moon
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has successfully landed on the Moon, marking a significant milestone in the growing collaboration between NASA and private companies in space exploration.

Planet Earth in reflected and polarized light -- III. Modeling and analysis of a decade-long catalog of Earthshine observations
Giulia Roccetti, Michael F. Sterzik, Claudia Emde, Mihail Manev, Stefano Bagnulo, Julia V. Seidel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13415

Planet Earth in reflected and polarized light - III. Modeling and analysis of a decade-long catalog of Earthshine observations
Earthshine observations offer a unique opportunity to study Earth as an exoplanet seen from the Moon. As the Sun-Earth-Moon geometry changes, Earth can be observed as a spatially unresolved exoplanet at different phase angles, providing important context for future observations of Earth-like exoplanets. Here, we present a catalog of Earthshine polarization spectra obtained with FORS2 on the VLT, covering diverse scenes, surface conditions, cloud properties, and weather patterns for over a decad…

You should give the Skate Story demo on Steam a spin. It is as intense of an experience as something like Sayonara Wild Hearts or Rez, and you are a skateboarding demon made of glass who wants to eat the moon. It is exactly as insane as it sounds. #gaming #SteamNextFest

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Police:
🎵 Walking On The Moon
#NowPlaying #ThePolice
https://opaledit.bandcamp.com/track/the-police-walking-on-the-moon-opal-fx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/62uLNJgVZaFiEiKV4LpoYJ

the moon?
fish
pay attention
to the moon?!
wow

🥮 Lunar soil could support life on the Moon, say scientists
#moon

Lunar soil could support life on the Moon, say scientists
Scientists have developed a technology that may help humans survive on the moon. In a study published in the journal Joule, researchers extracted water from lunar soil and used it to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and chemicals for fuel—potentially opening new doors for future deep space exploration by mitigating the need to transport essential resources like water and fuel all the way from Earth.

charlie kirk faked the moon landing, and they were onto him.. that's why he had to also fake his own death
🧐

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Neil Young:
🎵 Harvest Moon
#NeilYoung
https://ellierichards.bandcamp.com/track/neil-young-harvest-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/5l9c6bJmzvftumhz4TMPgk

The biggest problem many a media outlet – and the world at large – struggles with is the trap of “both-sides-ismt”. As if equivalence were a given. As if statements such as “the moon is made of cheese” and “the moon is not made of cheese” should be presented as equally valid opinions.
Just about every news program and talk show again.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Sun Kil Moon:
🎵 Among the Leaves
#SunKilMoon
https://gregjamie-evanparker.bandcamp.com/track/among-the-leaves-sun-kil-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/2FNqX3s4VkYXLjpWyL3HgJ

"Sometimes, the most courageous thing we do is not escalate." -- more @ #activism

Like the Moon on Water
How Fiction Quietly Pulls Us Toward the People We Hope To Be

The #morning sky over #Bochum, Germany, right now, with Pollux, Castor, Jupiter, Venus and the Moon: handheld #cellphone snapshot, 1/13 sec at f/1.79 and ISO 6375.

"""
In the sixteenth century, lunacy was a constant theme that was never questioned. It was still frequent in the seventeenth century, but started to disappear, and by 1707, the year in which Le François asked the question ‘Estne aliquod lunae in corpora humana imperium?’ (Does the moon have any influence over the human body?), after lengthy discussions, the university decided that their reply was in the negative. In the course of the eighteenth century the moon was rarely cited among the causes of madness, even as a possible factor or an aggravation. But right at the end of the century the idea reappears, perhaps under the influence of English medicine, which had never entirely forgotten the moon, and Daquin, followed by Leuret and Guislain, all admitted the influence of the moon on the phases of maniacal excitement, or at the least on the agitation of their patients. But what is important here is not so much the return of the theme as the possibility and conditions necessary for its reappearance. It reappears entirely transformed, filled with a new significance that it did not formerly possess. In its traditional form, it designated an immediate influence, a direct coincidence in time and intersection in space, whose mode of action was entirely situated in the power of the stars. But in Daquin by contrast, the influence of the moon acts through a whole series of mediations, in a kind of hierarchy, surrounding man. The moon acts on the atmosphere with such intensity that it can set in motion a mass as heavy as the ocean. The nervous system, of all the parts that make up the human organism, is the part most sensitive to atmospheric variations, as the slightest variation in temperature, humidity or dryness can have serious effects upon it. The moon therefore, given the important power that its trajectory exerts on the atmosphere, is likely to act most on people whose nervous fibres are particularly delicate:
“Madness is an exclusively nervous condition, and the brain of a madman must therefore be infinitely more susceptible to the influence of the atmosphere, which itself undergoes considerable changes of intensity as a result of the different positions of the moon relative to the earth.” [Daquin, Philosophie de la folie, Paris, 1792]
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

so many dispensaries going four-paws-to-the-moon in ann arbor
i have to walk, like, three blocks to get to the nearest one now /(.^.)\

Energy calibration of LHAASO-KM2A using the cosmic ray Moon shadow
Ali Raza, Huihai He, Faisal Akram, The LHAASO Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12649 https://

Energy calibration of LHAASO-KM2A using the cosmic ray Moon shadow
We present a precise measurement of the westward, rigidity-dependent shift of the Moon's shadow using three and a half years of cosmic-ray data collected by the Kilometer Square Array (KM2A) of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). These measurements enable us to calibrate the detector energy response in the range 20-260 TeV, with results showing excellent agreement with the response derived from Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of the KM2A detector. We also measure a best-fit pa…

FORGIVENESS

May the tide
never tire of its tender toil
how over and over
it forgives the Moon
the daily exile
and returns to turn
mountains into sand
     as if to say,
you too can have
this homecoming
you too possess
this elemental power
of turning
the stone in the heart
into golden dust.
— Maria Popova
#Poetry

Full Sturgeon #Moon (from last night)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Wojciech Rusin:
🎵 Even the Moon
#WojciechRusin
https://open.spotify.com/track/5x8lLGe1zw4buLzY0zsPap

Hyperspectral Polarimetric BRDFs of Real-world Materials
Yunseong Moon, Ryota Maeda, Suhyun Shin, Inseung Hwang, Youngchan Kim, Min H. Kim, Seung-Hwan Baek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13779

Hyperspectral Polarimetric BRDFs of Real-world Materials
Acquiring bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) is essential for simulating light transport and analytically modeling material properties. Over the past two decades, numerous intensity-only BRDF datasets in the visible spectrum have been introduced, primarily for RGB image rendering applications. However, in scientific and engineering domains, there remains an unmet need to model light transport with polarization--a fundamental wave property of light--across hyperspectral ban…

@… First I've heard of this - very exciting! https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/jeremy-hansen-moon-1.7649455

In 4 months, Canadian Jeremy Hansen will blast off to the moon — where he'll also be a human guinea pig | CBC News
If all goes to plan, next February could see the return of humans to the moon. Four people — NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — will see it as no one has before. And they will also be collecting valuable health data on themselves.

Lunar eclipse this evening. Parts of the country will see a blood red moon as the moon is eclipsed by the Earth and Raleigh scattering in our atmosphere causes red light to shine on the moon, which will reflect it back. In Glasgow, the red moon will be eclipsed by clouds.

A general thermodynamic model for the steady-state temperature of a photovoltaic module on the Moon
Mykhailo Koltsov, Zacharie Jehl Li-Kao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13110 https…

A general thermodynamic model for the steady-state temperature of a photovoltaic module on the Moon
Photovoltaic conversion is highly dependent on the converter's temperature. In the absence of atmosphere, it can be rigorously determined using a thermal balance leading to a compact expression. The derivation starts from a fully spectral, two-sided radiative balance and proceeds to a practical gray-band (integrated) expression that can be used to estimate Tc from measurable quantities: plane-of-array irradiance, spectral absorptance (or a broadband absorptance), thermal emissivities, view fact…

Mitigating Intra-Speaker Variability in Diarization with Style-Controllable Speech Augmentation
Miseul Kim, Soo Jin Park, Kyungguen Byun, Hyeon-Kyeong Shin, Sunkuk Moon, Shuhua Zhang, Erik Visser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14632

Mitigating Intra-Speaker Variability in Diarization with Style-Controllable Speech Augmentation
Speaker diarization systems often struggle with high intrinsic intra-speaker variability, such as shifts in emotion, health, or content. This can cause segments from the same speaker to be misclassified as different individuals, for example, when one raises their voice or speaks faster during conversation. To address this, we propose a style-controllable speech generation model that augments speech across diverse styles while preserving the target speaker's identity. The proposed system starts …

Why would the trumpies want to put a reactor on the moon?
Wouldn't it be more in keeping with the maga-mind's "big beautiful clean coal" message to build a coal powered power plant on the moon?
That would really show the Russians and Chinese who is boss of the moon!

@… draw for me a ghost with a pumpin head standing between a witch and an evil looking clown behind a knee high pot filled with green smoke. It is in the middle of the night and a full moon is visible behind some clouds

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
a‐ha:
🎵 The Killing Moon
#aha

NASA will get a safety process cut before it gets money to satisfy the empty promise from this administration. Folks will die, Trump will blame scientists, install yet more political hacks, and leave office having achieved nothing more than hollowing out another science-based government entity.

NASA’s acting chief “angry” about talk that China will beat US back to the Moon
“I can tell you what, I’ll be damned if that is the story that we write.”…

reading more about the energia rockets at https://russianspaceweb.com

Flournoy, Dak over the moon after WR's career day vs. Jets https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/flournoy-dak-over-the-moon-after-wr-s-career-day-vs-jets

ESSENTIAL: Episodic and Semantic Memory Integration for Video Class-Incremental Learning
Jongseo Lee, Kyungho Bae, Kyle Min, Gyeong-Moon Park, Jinwoo Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10896

ESSENTIAL: Episodic and Semantic Memory Integration for Video Class-Incremental Learning
In this work, we tackle the problem of video classincremental learning (VCIL). Many existing VCIL methods mitigate catastrophic forgetting by rehearsal training with a few temporally dense samples stored in episodic memory, which is memory-inefficient. Alternatively, some methods store temporally sparse samples, sacrificing essential temporal information and thereby resulting in inferior performance. To address this trade-off between memory-efficiency and performance, we propose EpiSodic and SE…

higher than the moon, hazy like a beautiful illusion, crazy and in confusion

Koalas vs. Crows: An Evolutionary Theory of #Software
https://ajmoon.com/posts/koalas-vs-crows-an-evolutionary-theory-of-software

🦠 Synthetic biology could support future outposts on the moon and Mars
#space

Synthetic biology could support future outposts on the moon and Mars
As humanity sets its sights on long-duration missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond, keeping astronauts healthy will be as critical as building rockets or habitats. A new paper appearing in npj Microgravity explores the possibilities of synthetic biology in accomplishing this.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[3/5]:
- Responsible AI Technical Report
, , Park, Yoon, Moon, Oh, Lee, Kim, Kim, Park, Shin, Lee, Lee, Ju, Noh, Jeong, Kim, Park, Bae

Another timestep of the #Pleiades #occultation by the #Moon, at 21:26 UTC - Merope had just emerged behind the dark side. Interestingly no stars whatsoever could be seen in 11 x 70 binoculars though the Moon - nice terminator - was a beauty. The Moon's elevation was 15°; 1/4 second at f/3.2 and ISO 200.

Coordinated Motion Planning of a Wearable Multi-Limb System for Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction
Chaerim Moon, Joohyung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10444 https://

Coordinated Motion Planning of a Wearable Multi-Limb System for Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction
Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (SRLs) can enhance human capability within close proximity. However, as a wearable device, the generated moment from its operation acts on the human body as an external torque. When the moments increase, more muscle units are activated for balancing, and it can result in reduced muscular null space. Therefore, this paper suggests a concept of a motion planning layer that reduces the generated moment for enhanced Human-Robot Interaction. It modifies given trajectories…

An instrumental-heavy list from me this week, with a bit of dorky folk and some power pop thrown in for good measure.
Dirty Three, "Moon on the Land" (2012)
https://dirtythree.bandcamp.com/track/moon-on-the-land
Future Folk, "Moons of Hondo" (…

Moon on the land, by Dirty Three
from the album Toward the Low Sun

Replaced article(s) found for cs.PL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PL/new
[1/1]:
- Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations
David Moon, Andrew Blinn, Thomas J. Porter, Cyrus Omar

Moon.exe has stopped working

Origin of the lunar farside highlands from Earthshine-induced global circulation in lunar magma ocean
Wenshuai Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11199 https://

Origin of the lunar farside highlands from Earthshine-induced global circulation in lunar magma ocean
The lunar farside highlands, referred to as the lunar farside thicker crust compared with the nearside crust, presents a challenge to the theory of formation and evolution of the Moon. Here, we show that, after the Moon reached synchronous rotation, Earthshine could induce global circulation in lunar magma ocean due to the imposed surface temperature gradient generated by the hot, post-giant impact Earth. The global circulation, generating downwellings on the farside and a deeper return flow on…

Controlled growth of polar altermagnets via chemical vapor transport
Hiraka Haruhiro, Raktim Datta, Poonam Yadav, Anzar Ali, Suheon Lee, Matthias J. Gutmann, Duhee Yoon, Dirk Wulferding, Xianghan Xu, Moon-Ho Jo, Sang-Wook Cheong, Sungkyun Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11716

Controlled growth of polar altermagnets via chemical vapor transport
Altermagnetic properties have been recently proposed in polar magnetic oxides, M$_{2}$Mo$_{3}$O$_{8}$ (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni), where improved characteristics of stronger magnetoelectric coupling and higher magnetic transition temperatures were observed. Thus, understanding their microscopic origins is of fundamental and technological importance. However, the difficulty in growing large single crystals hinders detailed experimental studies. Here, we report the successful growth of large single crys…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Elvis Presley:
🎵 Blue Moon
#NowPlaying #ElvisPresley
https://hamziarif.bandcamp.com/track/blue-moon-elvis-presley
https://open.spotify.com/track/47Yann2RUKWbjSIIjQadiC

The moon, just past full
Throws shadows against the earth
Hoping some will stick.
#dailyhaikuprompt - moon
#haiku
#poem

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Eyal Talmudi:
🎵 Moon Colors (feat. Nitai Hershkovits)
#EyalTalmudi

Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks for Efficient Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction
Seon-Geun Jeong, Kyeong-Hwan Moon, Won-Joo Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11046 https:/…

Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks for Efficient Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction
Protein-ligand binding affinity is critical in drug discovery, but experimentally determining it is time-consuming and expensive. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to predict binding affinity, significantly accelerating this process. However, the high-performance requirements and vast datasets involved in affinity prediction demand increasingly large AI models, requiring substantial computational resources and training time. Quantum machine learning has emerged as a promising solution …

Full moon yesterday behind clouds, over the Red River of the North #Fargo #Moorhead

The Case for Alien Life on Saturn’s Moon Just Got a Boost https://www.404media.co/the-case-for-alien-life-on-saturns-moon-just-got-a-boost-2/

NASA confirms Moon landing by a private American spacecraft - Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/nasa-confirms-moon-landing-by-private-american-spacecraft-blue-ghost-1/

Studying Exoplanets in the Radio from the Moon
Jake D. Turner, Jack O. Burns, David Rapetti, Philippe Zarka, Jean-Mathias Grie{\ss}meier, Judd Bowman, Gregg Hallinan, Joshua Hibbard, Johnny Dorigo Jones, Laurent Lamy, Corentin K. Louis, Richard Lovelace, Nivedita Mahesh, Ronald Polidan, Xiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09222

Studying Exoplanets in the Radio from the Moon
Exoplanets with and without a magnetic field are predicted to form, behave, and evolve very differently. Therefore, there is great need to directly constrain these fields to holistically understand the properties of exoplanets including their potential habitability. This goal aligns with the Astro2020 Decadal Survey recommendations. Observing planetary auroral radio emissions is among the most promising detection methods, but decades of searching have yet to yield a conclusive detection, though…

Acceleration of nuclear power development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight
Acting NASA director Duffy cites plans by China and Russia to put a reactor on the moon by the mid-2030s
as part of a partnership to build a base there.
If they were first, China and Russia “could potentially declare a keep-out zone” that would inhibit what the United States could do there, Mr. Duffy said.
The directive calls for the appointment of…

NASA’s Acting Administrator Calls for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon
The acceleration of nuclear development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight. A reactor would be useful for long-term stays on the moon.

#moon #photo

I need this
#rats

I don't know if it's the black hole imagery, the intriguing name, or a desire for space stuff but Moon Mystery looks *sooo* appealing to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwk6w0KR4Ak
Too bad it's sitting at Mixed on Steam right now. Sounds like it's really buggy. I sho…

🌝 Solar powered moon brick factory could build future lunar cities
#space

Solar powered moon brick factory could build future lunar cities
Chinese scientists have developed a remarkable machine that could revolutionize how humans build structures on the moon. The device works like a 3D printer powered by concentrated sunlight, turning lunar soil (known as regolith) into strong construction bricks without needing any materials from Earth.

Cislunar Resonant Transport and Heteroclinic Pathways: From 3:1 to 2:1 to L1
Bhanu Kumar, Anjali Rawat, Aaron J. Rosengren, Shane D. Ross
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12675 https:…

Cislunar Resonant Transport and Heteroclinic Pathways: From 3:1 to 2:1 to L1
Understanding the dynamical structure of cislunar space beyond geosynchronous orbit is critical for both lunar exploration and for high-Earth-orbiting trajectories. In this study, we investigate the role of mean-motion resonances and their associated heteroclinic connections in enabling natural semi-major axis transport in the Earth-Moon system. Working within the planar circular restricted three-body problem, we compute and analyze families of periodic orbits associated with the interior 4:1, …

The moon last night, exactly 12h ago...
(Canon R7, 400mm, f8, 1/125s)
#Moon #AstroPhotography #BlackAndWhite

And the the #Pleiades #occultation by the #Moon is already history in Bochum, Germany: a final timestep at 22:34 UTC, with the Moon having cleared all major stars of the cluster. Nice show that was - though only for the camera (which was a Panasonic DMC-FZ300 on a tripod, mostly at maximum zoom; this image 1/5 second at f/3.2 and ISO 200, with the Pleiades 25° up).

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tom Hickox:
🎵 The Whole of the Moon
#NowPlaying #TomHickox
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rZngFBLrqv1InrSYjPlcg

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Mildlife:
🎵 The Magnificent Moon
#Mildlife
https://mildlife.bandcamp.com/track/the-magnificent-moon-tornado-wallace-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/04EPqKDNKEJx80mzW7qMvZ

Efficient Learning-Based Control of a Legged Robot in Lunar Gravity
Philip Arm, Oliver Fischer, Joseph Church, Adrian Fuhrer, Hendrik Kolvenbach, Marco Hutter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10128

Efficient Learning-Based Control of a Legged Robot in Lunar Gravity
Legged robots are promising candidates for exploring challenging areas on low-gravity bodies such as the Moon, Mars, or asteroids, thanks to their advanced mobility on unstructured terrain. However, as planetary robots' power and thermal budgets are highly restricted, these robots need energy-efficient control approaches that easily transfer to multiple gravity environments. In this work, we introduce a reinforcement learning-based control approach for legged robots with gravity-scaled power-op…

Sean Duffy, NASA's acting administrator, warned of
"letting safety be the enemy of progress"
when it comes to winning a space race
http…

Interim NASA head tells agency that it will beat China back to the moon
It's full steam ahead for NASA — at least according to Sean Duffy, the agency's acting administrator

Enhancing the Quality of 3D Lunar Maps Using JAXA's Kaguya Imagery
Yumi Iwashita, Haakon Moe, Yang Cheng, Adnan Ansar, Georgios Georgakis, Adrian Stoica, Kazuto Nakashima, Ryo Kurazume, Jim Torresen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11817

Enhancing the Quality of 3D Lunar Maps Using JAXA's Kaguya Imagery
As global efforts to explore the Moon intensify, the need for high-quality 3D lunar maps becomes increasingly critical-particularly for long-distance missions such as NASA's Endurance mission concept, in which a rover aims to traverse 2,000 km across the South Pole-Aitken basin. Kaguya TC (Terrain Camera) images, though globally available at 10 m/pixel, suffer from altitude inaccuracies caused by stereo matching errors and JPEG-based compression artifacts. This paper presents a method to improv…

“Nasa to put nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev2dylxv74o

Language of Persuasion and Misrepresentation in Business Communication: A Textual Detection Approach
Sayem Hossen, Monalisa Moon Joti, Md. Golam Rashed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09935

Language of Persuasion and Misrepresentation in Business Communication: A Textual Detection Approach
Business communication digitisation has reorganised the process of persuasive discourse, which allows not only greater transparency but also advanced deception. This inquiry synthesises classical rhetoric and communication psychology with linguistic theory and empirical studies in the financial reporting, sustainability discourse, and digital marketing to explain how deceptive language can be systematically detected using persuasive lexicon. In controlled settings, detection accuracies …

🐍 Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator (COBRA)
#robots #space

Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator (COBRA)
NASA aims to establish a sustainable human basecamp on the Moon as a stepping stone for future missions to Mars and beyond. The discovery of water ice on the Moon's craters located in permanently shadowed regions, which can provide drinking water, oxygen, and rocket fuel, is therefore of critical importance. However, current methods to access lunar ice deposits are limited. While rovers have been used to explore the lunar surface for decades, they face significant challenges in navigating harsh…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Neko Case:
🎵 I Wish I Was The Moon
#NekoCase
https://nekocaseofficial.bandcamp.com/track/i-wish-i-was-the-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PxzGOH79jcmmldKgoI9sB

The #Moon in front of the #Pleiades star cluster as seen from #Bochum, Germany, ten minutes ago (at 20:42 UTC) - not only a number of stars show up but also the earthshine, very faintly.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Dead Moon:
🎵 Walking on My Grave
#DeadMoon
https://chucknorrisexperiment.bandcamp.com/track/walking-on-my-grave-tribute-to-dead-moon-single
https://open.spotify.com/track/0FaauWA6qCmdsT9weCnMIy

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Neville Brothers:
🎵 Yellow Moon
#NowPlaying #TheNevilleBrothers
https://djandyp.bandcamp.com/album/the-neville-brothers-yellow-moon-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5azaQP9aqjy3XYwsuJ0ebJ

Wasn't there a TV show (spoilers: Space: 1999) where this was a thing and it turned out not to be a good thing?
Pete Buttigieg's replacement wants NASA to nuke the moon - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/pete-buttigiegs-replacement-wants-nasa-to-the-moon/

PERSONA: Personalized Whole-Body 3D Avatar with Pose-Driven Deformations from a Single Image
Geonhee Sim, Gyeongsik Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09973 https://

PERSONA: Personalized Whole-Body 3D Avatar with Pose-Driven Deformations from a Single Image
Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity representation. However, modeling pose-driven deformations, such as non-rigid cloth deformations, requires numerous pose-rich videos, which are costly and impractical to capture in daily life. The second, a diffusion-based approach, learns pose-driven deformations from la…

We haven’t mined on the moon yet, but companies are already buying its resources.

Finnish tech firm Bluefors,
a maker of ultracold refrigerator systems critical for quantum computing,
has purchased tens of thousands of liters of Helium-3 from the moon
— spending “above $300 million”
— through a commercial space company called Interlune.
The agreement, which has not been previously reported, marks the largest purchase of a natural resource from space
…

Moon helium deal is biggest purchase of natural resources from space
The feasibility of moon mining is not yet proven, but the future of supercomputing may depend on the ability to extract Helium-3 from the lunar surface.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Los Lobos:
🎵 Kiko and the Lavender Moon
#LosLobos
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JxHZfZM0ysnwPDefDl8Mz

Good morning from #Goerlitz, Germany! The clock tower of the Town Hall - #AstronomicalClock showing Moon phases above the regular one and the opening of the #ag2025goerlitz astronomy conference ... in the synagogue.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nick Drake:
🎵 Pink Moon
#NowPlaying #NickDrake
https://sameness.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-nick-drake-pink-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/4KROoGIaPaR1pBHPnR3bwC

Slantwise convection and heat transport in the icy moon oceans
Yaoxuan Zeng, Malte F. Jansen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06480 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06…

Slantwise convection and heat transport in the icy moon oceans
Ocean heat transport on icy moons shapes the ice shell topography, a primary observable of these moons. Two key processes control the heat transport: baroclinic instability driven by surface buoyancy contrasts and convective instability driven by heating from the core. However, global ocean simulations cannot accurately resolve convection under realistic icy moon conditions and instead often use Earth-based convective parameterizations, which capture only vertical convective mixing and cannot r…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Death Valley Girls:
🎵 Fire and Brimstone
#DeathValleyGirls
https://deathvalleygirls.bandcamp.com/album/sisters-of-the-moon-b-w-fire-and-brimstone
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jRq49pjTXmk5QOd6tHmxl

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Echo & The Bunnymen:
🎵 The Killing Moon
#NowPlaying #Echo #TheBunnymen
https://billwhite.bandcamp.com/track/the-killing-moon-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/35E2eKIEXXnP5q9L51iOAk

Probing the Moon from Future Asteroid Impacts: A Review
Yifei Jiao, Bin Cheng, Hexi Baoyin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01436 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0143…

Probing the Moon from Future Asteroid Impacts: A Review
The Earth--Moon system has been experiencing impacts from asteroids and comets for billions of years. The Moon, as an airless body, has preserved a distinct record of these events in form of impact craters and ejecta deposits, offering valuable insights into the impact history and surface evolution of the Moon. However, the ancient impact relics can only provide limited information to the lunar interior structure, with an absence of the Moon's immediately dynamic response to the impact events. …

A relatively cool lunar farside mantle inferred from Chang’e-6 basalts and remote sensing: #moon may be colder than the near side: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/sep/far-side-moon-may-be-colder-near-side

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Black Pumas:
🎵 Black Moon Rising
#BlackPumas
https://blackpumas.bandcamp.com/track/black-moon-rising-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/2uQRFyTAAH6C0EJO9J9Tvl

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The Neville Brothers:
🎵 Yellow Moon
#NowPlaying #TheNevilleBrothers
https://djandyp.bandcamp.com/album/the-neville-brothers-yellow-moon-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5azaQP9aqjy3XYwsuJ0ebJ

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kit Sebastian:
🎵 Göç / Me (Ko Shin Moon remix)
#KitSebastian
https://kitsebastian.bandcamp.com/track/g-me-ko-shin-moon-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1nPC5op37uOleRc6RH3Xdl

Earth Wind-Driven Formation of Hematite on the Lunar Surface: #Moon Is Rusting, And It's All Earth's Fault: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-moon-is-rusting-and-its-all-earths-fault

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Nick Drake:
🎵 Pink Moon
#NickDrake
https://sameness.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-nick-drake-pink-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/4KROoGIaPaR1pBHPnR3bwC

Here's how (the first partiality of) yesterday's Total #LunarEclipse looked from the #ISS: #refraction.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Arthur Russell:
🎵 This Is How We Walk on the Moon
#ArthurRussell
https://bewilderedhallelujah.bandcamp.com/track/arthur-russell-this-is-how-we-walk-on-the-moon-bewhal-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/74LbkcDTjFV1WtMmTAtORI