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All the #MoonBase news from today in one text: #NASA will announce the crew of #ArtemisIII: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-announce-artemis-iii-crew-provide-mission-progress-update/

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 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

The #Moon tonight: thanks to #libration several #mare at the edge are visible!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Moon Duo:
🎵 Planet Caravan
#MoonDuo
https://sacredbonesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/planet-caravan
https://open.spotify.com/track/5QBzorRtkUglhnTQBzNJMU

🌙 is amazing tonight! #moon #lookup

Here is the new #MoonBase NASA website: https://www.nasa.gov/moonbase/ - at the presser it was also announced that Blue Origin, AstroLab and LunarOutpost have been chosen to build and deliver Lunar Terrain Vehicles while Firefly will build the vehicle to carry the Moonfall probes: https://bsky.app/profile/genejm1017.bsky.social/post/3mmrmpih4yc22. Meanwhile three NASA-sponsored Moon landings are planned for the remainder of this year: https://nitter.net/NASA/status/2059338624651387312#m

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

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.

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

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 -> SwRI team uncovers clues about what future astronauts may find on the Moon: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-team-uncovers-clues-about-what-future-astronauts-may-find-the-moon

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

Yeah, so I suck at #astrophotography when all I have is a handheld mobile phone camera. 🌙♀♃
#Moon #Venus #Jupiter

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

BRB howling at the #moon 🌕

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

RE: #Moon was already half way between Mercury and Jupiter:

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/

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

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

The moon right now. Almost half way through the waxing phase. 🌓
#photography #amateur #moon #night #Germany

Heute wirds himmlisch. 🌕
#workinprogress 🎨, freie Arbeit, kommt später voraussichtlich in den #wandklex Shop.
#moon #fediart #mastoart #creativeToots

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moon Duo:
🎵 Flying
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/flying
https://open.spotify.com/track/7C3Bx5k7dPyTCw0TdWiEbi

Subsurface ice in doubly shadowed craters as revealed by Chandrayaan-2 dual frequency synthetic aperture radar: #Moon using Chandrayaan-2 data: https://www.deccanherald.com/science/space/isro-detects-possible-subsurface-ice-on-moon-using-chandrayaan-2-data-what-this-means-4019012

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:
🎵 Stars Are The Light
#MoonDuo
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/album/stars-are-the-light-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/19xLlmWwfG7uXfGcjkdnjO

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/

"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 ...

NASA just released some of the pictures taken by the astronauts yesterday and Oh My Word. So many new wallpapers!! :D
#NASA #ArtemisII #pictures #amazing #eclipse #earth #moon #Mars

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 #Audioasis
Moon Duo:
🎵 Lost Heads
#MoonDuo
https://open.spotify.com/track/6f8wIpMdNnL7CZ8zsfmh6v

Das Modell hielt neulich so still, dass ich es nochmal eingeladen habe. 😁
#workinprogress 🎨, freie Arbeit, kommt später in den #wandklex Shop.
#moon #luna #watercolor #watercolour #aquarell #art #fediart #mastoart #creativeToots

Seid ihr schon bereit für den Mondaufgang? Im #wandklex Shop ist Vollmond! Das Original ist seit gerade eben auf #watercolor #watercolour #aquarell #art #artShop #moon #spaceArt #fediart #mastoart #creativeToots #artforsale

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moon Boots, Lyric Jones:
🎵 Sunshine
#MoonBoots #LyricJones
https://foolsgoldrecs.bandcamp.com/track/sunshine
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ApLg0vSM6AIZ1dYQRZ9kY

🇺🇦 #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