2026-03-27 00:34:38
A galactic cosmic ray cavity in Earth-Moon space: #Moon: https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-spot-previously-unknown-space-cavity-thats-quietly-protecting-the-moon-2000737969
A galactic cosmic ray cavity in Earth-Moon space: #Moon: https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-spot-previously-unknown-space-cavity-thats-quietly-protecting-the-moon-2000737969
Isotopic evidence for volatile loss driven by South Pole-Aitken basin–forming impact: #Moon Is Asymmetrical: https://eos.org/articles/primordial-impact-may-explain-why-the-moon-is-asymmetrical - analysis of surface samples from the Chang’e-6 mission suggests that an asteroid may have vaporized parts of the lunar mantle, suppressing volcanic activity on the farside of the Moon.
People are gonna fly by the moon!
Scheduled to launch on April Fool's day 😆
#space
two Canadians playing key roles right now as this historic flyby happens! Jeremy Hansen of course is in the Integrity capsule and fellow CSA astronaut Jenni Gibbons is the CapCom during that time and most of the active time of the Artemis mission!
#nasa #moon #artemisII
Couldn't sleep, so here is the moon
#moon #photograpy #black
In #Goettingen, the upcoming Astronomy Day on March 28th will offer lectures, planetarium shows and skygazing. Topics will be #moon, #planets,
Did you know that the #Moon was unhappy to have been created? Learned this today from a fresco in #Fanefjord Church on MŸn - #Elmelundemesteren. The Sun looks happier ...
Reminder to those in #australia - the blood red #moon #eclipse is tonight and has started - total eclipse in half an hour from now
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moon Duo:
🎵 Sleepwalker
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/sleepwalker
https://open.spotify.com/track/1qr2bHbX2X05w8rsEmadT7
Currently watching the #moon flyby on NASA TV
https://www.nasa.gov/live/
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Moon Duo:
🎵 Stars Are The Light
#NowPlaying #MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/album/stars-are-the-light-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/19xLlmWwfG7uXfGcjkdnjO
Facing east from Australia right now, using the app:
#artemis
Another view of the #ZodiacalLight behind the #Moon, from a camera on the solar cells. And the daily #ArtemisII press conferences resume now, the first one post-flyby coming up at the bottom of the hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YWATA3d5dU
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moon Duo:
🎵 Flying
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/flying
https://open.spotify.com/track/7C3Bx5k7dPyTCw0TdWiEbi
The #Moon in a perfectly fitting #easteregg shape in the live stream #ArtemisII right now. Two new updates: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/04/artemis-ii-flight-day-4-crew-completes-manual-piloting-demonstration/ and just in https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/05/artemis-ii-flight-day-5-crew-starts-day-with-suit-demo/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Moondog:
🎵 Bird's Lament
#Moondog
https://ulises.bandcamp.com/track/moondog-birds-lament-ulises-edit
"Chang'E-4 (CE4), the first mission to soft-land on the lunar farside, provides a unique opportunity for astronomical observations from an environment shielded from terrestrial radio interference, and thus serves as pathfinder for #LunarFarside radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) studies. We present a search for periodic technosignatures using low-frequency radio observations from the CE-4 mission, the first radio #SETI study based on data from on the observation in lunar farside": #Moon ...
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moon Duo:
🎵 Stars Are The Light
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/album/stars-are-the-light-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/19xLlmWwfG7uXfGcjkdnjO
More #MareOrientale in this new #ArtemisII #Moon image - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55190158269/in/album-72177720307234654 - than in the first one with a long focal length presented. The lunar flyby webcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-j1uxBmis0 will begin at 17:00 UTC today and the lunar observations run from 18:45 UTC to 1:20 UTC on 7 April - as explained in the press conference tonight we will mostly get images from the exterior cameras with astronaut commentary of what they see; real photographs like this one will be downloaded later during the day and the following ones.
It is legitimately exciting that 4 humans might start on a journey around the Moon today!
Godspeed to all of them but especially The Big Unit* Canadian Jeremy Hansen!!
(*my unofficial nickname. the dude is huge, how does he even fit in the capsule!)
#NASA #ArtemisII #Space #Moon #Canada
Cool picture of the #ArtemisII stack in front of the first quarter #Moon at the #KSC - supplied by ULA: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ulalaunch/55063964129/
Phase C has officially begun for Lunar Meteoroid Impacts Observer or #Lumio, ESA’s pioneering CubeSat technology demonstration mission dedicated to monitoring #meteoroid flashes on the far side of the #Moon: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Shaping_the_Future/A_leap_forward_for_Lumio_Phase_C_officially_launched - Lumio is entering the detailed design and implementation phase that will advance the mission toward flight readiness and a potential launch in 2028.
The #Moon with #earthshine and #Venus in two stages of #dusk over #Bochum, Germany, this evening: in https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10233702649202911 and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/der-artemis-ii-stack-steht-erneut-auf-der-rampe/ more pictures!
From the #LPSC #NASA HQ Briefing: the four American robotic #Moon landings planned for this year - the Blue Origin HLS demonstrator for #Artemis should go first, as early as next month. (There is a little #VIPER looking at the latter because this homeless rover might fly on a second demonstrator - if they can figure out how to get it from the 8 meters high lander to the surface.)