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Can Spacecraft-Borne Contamination Compromise Our Understanding of #Lunar Ice Chemistry? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009132 -> Future moon landings could wipe out clues to how life began on Earth: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260710003537.htm - spacecraft exhaust may spread across the moon surprisingly fast, threatening to contaminate ancient lunar records that could reveal how life on Earth began.

New Constraints on the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Lunar Surface Regolith: #lunar explorers, depending on the task at hand.

On the Anticipation of #Lunar Travel in the Early 20th Century - A Pedagogical Exercise: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12582 -> "This article examines, from historical and pedagogical perspectives, Alphonse Berget's anticipation of Earth-Moon travel in Le Ciel (Larousse, 1923), decades before the beginning of the space age. [...] Unlike earlier fictional treatments such as Jules Verne's De la Terre a la Lune, Berget approached space travel using physical reasoning grounded in Newtonian gravitation. [...] His estimated Earth-Moon travel time of approximately 49 hours is of the same order of magnitude as Apollo mission transit times (approx. 72 h)."

Thick Lunar Crust Amplifies Deci-Hertz Gravitational-Wave Signals / Gravitational-Wave Tomography of the Moon: Constraining #Lunar Structure with Calibrated Gravitational Waves: #GravitationalWave Detectors Get a Lift from Geology: #Moon might gather more information than previously thought, thanks to geology.

A Comparison of Lunar AI-based Crater Databases Using Uniform Criteria: #LunarCrater catalogs: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-study-discovers-discrepancies-ai-lunar-crater-catalogs

Rocket Exhaust Derived Surface Water Migration at Lunar Landing Sites: #Lunar spacecraft exhaust could obscure clues to origins of life: https://news.agu.org/press-release/lunar-spacecraft-exhaust-could-obscure-clues-to-origins-of-life/ - exhaust methane could travel pole-to-pole in under two lunar days, half of it settling in regions potentially harboring original ingredients of earthly life.