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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 ...

🐇 The tortoise and the hare: will China beat the US in the race back to the moon?
#moon

The tortoise and the hare: will China beat the US in the race back to the moon?
The rival superpowers are ramping up preparations for a crewed lunar landing, with China’s progress slow and steady and the US’s landers still in development

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Moon Owl's Mages:
🎵 Weekend
#MoonOwlsMages
https://open.spotify.com/track/7Exy1lEBrjphrpb5Cke67e

Earth–Moon transfer via the L1 Lagrangian point using the theory of functional connections: #Moon than any previously described: https://agencia.fapesp.br/method-calculates-more-efficient-route-between-earth-and-moon-than-any-previously-described/58066

The little crescent on the right is Earth. Moon in the middle. Artemis/Integrity on the left. Every human being is in this picture.
#humanity #artemis #moon

China has unveiled an AI-powered humanoid robot that it plans to send to the #Moon as part of its 2029 Chang’e-8 mission: https://www.independent.co.uk/space/china-robot-moon-mission-humanoid-b2974130.html - the 100 kilogram robot will act as a porter to transport and install instruments at various lunar locations ahead of a crewed landing.

People are gonna fly by the moon!
Scheduled to launch on April Fool's day 😆
#space

Artemis II: NASA’s First Crewed Lunar Flyby in 50 Years - NASA
Meet the Artemis II crew and learn how NASA’s 10-day lunar flyby mission will test deep space systems and pave the way for future Moon landings.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moon Duo:
🎵 Sleepwalker
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/sleepwalker
https://open.spotify.com/track/1qr2bHbX2X05w8rsEmadT7

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,

A southward differentiated impactor forms the tapered shape of the South Pole–Aitken impact basin on the #Moon: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea1984 -> A violent impact might have ejected material from deep within the moon's mantle — and future Artemis astronauts might be able to sample it: https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/a-bizarre-decapitated-asteroid-likely-made-the-moons-largest-impact-crater-nasas-artemis-astronauts-may-land-near-the-proof

#NASA's #Artemis II Crew Launches To The #Moon (Official Broadcast)

Reminder to those in #australia - the blood red #moon #eclipse is tonight and has started - total eclipse in half an hour from now

Currently watching the #moon flyby on NASA TV
https://www.nasa.gov/live/

A galactic cosmic ray cavity in Earth-Moon space: #Moon Mission Data Reveal Unexpected Cosmic Ray “Shadow”: https://eos.org/articles/moon-mission-data-reveal-unexpected-cosmic-ray-shadow - a particle detector on the Chang’e-4 lunar lander showed a surprising zone of reduced radiation stretching out from Earth at a strange angle, with potential implications for future astronauts.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Moon Duo:
🎵 Sevens
#MoonDuo
https://open.spotify.com/track/2La8TQxmcsZSeiZdZVXVEw

Facing east from Australia right now, using the app:
#artemis

🌚 Lunar Dust Protection Technology and Evaluation: A Review
#moon #space

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Moon Owl's Mages:
🎵 Dog Track
#MoonOwlsMages
https://open.spotify.com/track/5R5UBrv9NwAcTako85gIHP

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.)

Upper stage impacting the #moon on 2026 August 5: https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm -> A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/a-falcon-9-upper-stage-will-strike-the-moon-in-august/

"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:
🎵 Flying
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/flying
https://open.spotify.com/track/7C3Bx5k7dPyTCw0TdWiEbi

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

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

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/

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.

🇺🇦 #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

Moon Seen Through Fork in Dead Poplar Snag Next to My House
#photo #photography #moon #nature

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Moon Duo:
🎵 Lost Heads
#MoonDuo
https://open.spotify.com/track/6f8wIpMdNnL7CZ8zsfmh6v

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Moondog:
🎵 Bird's Lament
#Moondog
https://ulises.bandcamp.com/track/moondog-birds-lament-ulises-edit

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Moon Duo:
🎵 Jukebox Babe
#MoonDuo
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zldKan8Pu2rPegmeY0wIV
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KW4FxNKVGpVTgIJYolnNY
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

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!