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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

Full #moon with smartphone through a 25€ telescope. 😎

🌡️ Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax
#moon

Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax
Sometimes space exploration doesn't go as planned. But even in failure, engineers can learn, adapt, and try again. One of the best ways to do that is to share the learning, and allow others to reproduce the work that might not have succeeded, allowing them to try again. A group from MIT's Space Enabled Research Group, part of its Media Lab, recently released a paper in Space Science Reviews that describes the design and testing results of a pair of passive sensors sent to the moon on the ill-fa…

Bei so einem Supervollmond springt hier sicher gleich nochmal die Photovoltaikanlage an.
#moon #mond

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 #DriveTime
Moon Duo:
🎵 Lost Heads
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/lost-heads
https://open.spotify.com/track/6f8wIpMdNnL7CZ8zsfmh6v

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Moon Panda:
🎵 Starfruit
#MoonPanda
https://moonpanda.bandcamp.com/track/starfruit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5GU3GZ5BKK2OItIIxcyjH3
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Moon Walker:
🎵 New God
#MoonWalker
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TxHd6feUaIpJxLAjpYJZp

While looking in vain for comet Lemmon - already too low - from Bochum, Germany, yesterday (28 October) the setting #Moon suddenly broke through the clouds, at -26° declination. Some consolation prize ...

Active landslides on the Moon: #Moon, recognizing endogenic moonquakes rather than new impacts are the primary trigger: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100110 -> Moonquakes are the primary trigger for lunar landslides, study finds: https://www.astronomy.com/science/moonquakes-are-the-primary-trigger-for-lunar-landslides-study-finds/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moon Duo:
🎵 Jukebox Babe
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/album/jukebox-babe-no-fun
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zldKan8Pu2rPegmeY0wIV

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.

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).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Moon Duo:
🎵 Cross-Town Fade
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/cross-town-fade
https://open.spotify.com/track/5lSeb9PZBkU8PfuLfVb15G

Space missions that could have been ... found this report - #Moon in the 1980s, visiting the poles where water ice was suspected. And using a lander to be built in LEO from components launched on three space shuttles. Not an option for Artemis III today, I'm afraid ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Moon Duo:
🎵 Stars Are The Light
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/album/stars-are-the-light-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/19xLlmWwfG7uXfGcjkdnjO

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.