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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-21 07:15:16
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"From afar the chambers breathing magic spells burst open and the grim doors flew wide, and she [Medea] gazed at all that she had torn from the ocean-bed or from the Shades below, or drawn down from the blood-red visage of #Luna."

This vase depicts the shepherd Endymion luring Selene the Moon down from the sky with a shining fleece. The goddess drives in a four-horse chariot and is crowned with the crescent moon and shining aureole. Aphrodite and Peitho, the goddesses of love and seduction, stand to her left (not seen here).
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-09 21:57:09
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"May you [Luna, the Moon] wear a shining face and, the clouds all scattered, fare on with undimmed horns; when you drive your car through the nightly skies."
Seneca, Phaedra 417
🏛️ #Luna, Roman statuette, Antikensammlung…

Bronze statuette of Luna. She is dressed in a peplos, wearing her iconic lunar crescent on her head and the cloak billowing behind it.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-06-06 19:12:36

Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ and scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon. in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-03 01:31:08
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Mene (the Moon), full with grey fire, gilds with her face the gleaming heaven"
Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilias 514
🏛️ #Luna oil lamp, ca. 90-140 CE
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Mould-made pottery lamp with a circular body, a rounded shoulder, and a short flat-topped semicircular nozzle set into the shoulder and defined by a lateral groove. At the rear is a pierced handle, grooved along the upper edge. The discus is surrounded by two circular grooves, the outer one pierced with an air-hole. On the discus is a draped bust of Luna with the horns of a crescent moon rising on each side of her. Across the slightly raised base is the impressed name CATILIVEST. Covered with a…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-14 12:47:36

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Luna Li:
🎵 Confusion Song
#LunaLi
lunali.bandcamp.com/track/conf
open.spotify.com/track/3xYyoN7