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🤾 Building a giant catcher's mitt on the moon
#moon

Building a giant catcher's mitt on the moon
Members of the space exploration community are always coming up with novel ideas to solve problems that they view as holding back humanity's expansion into the cosmos. One such problem that has become more noticeable of late, due to the failure of several powered lunar landers, is the difficulty of landing on the moon.

Lunar volcanic gas cloud chemistry - constraints from glass bead surface sublimates: #moon shimmers with shiny glass beads: https://source.washu.edu/2025/06/why-the-moon-shimmers-with-shiny-glass-beads/

Full Sturgeon #Moon (from last night)

But the moon has its own tricks to keep the clouds at bay.
#photography #amateur #moon

Next at the #SolarEclipse Conference Nick James talked about new (and finally amateur-affordable) polarization-sensitive cameras in which each pixel comes with a polarizer: since it's a while til the next solar eclipse he demonstrated it with the #Moon where the #polarization of the maria is higher than of the highlands, matching expectations. 2/n

🥮 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.

One hell of a bright #moon tonight.

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

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

NASA and ESA scientists are monitoring
💥asteroid 2024 YR4,
initially feared to pose a threat to Earth,
but now projected to have a small chance of impacting the #Moon by 2031
—potentially offering a rare opportunity to observe a lunar impact and test planetary defense strategies.
First detected by the
"Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System" (ATLAS) in Hawaii…

2024 YR4
When discovered, asteroid 2024 YR4 appeared to have a small chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Experts now think it poses no significant risk to Earth.

AN ACTUALLY A PIECE OF THE MOON
🌚🌘🌖🌒🌝 #moon #moonrock

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

Dusty streaks on the #Moon - fingerprints of multiphase flow instabilities: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62001-8 -> Johns Hopkins engineers explain forces that create unusual radiating dust patterns: https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/21/lunar-landing-dust-debris/

The clouds want to swallow the almost full moon. 🌫️
#photography #amateur #moon #clouds

A shallow mantle source for the Chang’e 5 lavas reveals how top-down heating prolonged lunar magmatism: #moon came from much shallower depths than previously thought, new study finds: https://news.ufl.edu/2025/07/molten-magma/

Oblivious to the idiocy on this planet tonight the cosmic clockwork just marches on ... here is the #Moon / #Venus #conjunction right now over Bochum, Germany; see https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid0eWPo5yt1RFqzGPmYfskv6kiBGHP2A1PT8rR1rcZA14orAR6DyqZLCjorYoynJhiUl for more views.

Sister, seems like we were all afraid you wouldn’t survive your first winter inside
But you thrived
And now, I hear maybe you are moving to Central Park - pretty swank
See you soon
👋 ❤️ 🌖 🌳
#nasa #MoonTree #nyc #nasagiss
https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/nasa-stem-artemis-moon-trees/

A crazy picture of the #occultation of the #Pleiades by the #Moon right now ... shot with a handheld camera through a window and a hole in the clouds from Bochum, Germany. See https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid0VgrVTvLkmkn7SjUGXRKTYTNsxUFs8kyPZXN9TbHsLiuUeb2xCY5p7SDQ6QzBsiWVl for more pictures: the cluster stars came and went and were never all at once in the clear. But hey, I kinda got it. ;-)

Halogen abundance evidence for the formation and metasomatism of the primary lunar crust: #moon –> new clues about formation.