Moon
Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast: March 5-11, 2012
[/caption] Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Our week begins with the dance of the planets and a gathering of asteroids. Keep watching…
A ‘Melted’ Moon Makes for Bad Future Landing Sites
[/caption] The miniature radio frequency (min-RF) radar instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is revealing some interesting things about…
Is There Life on Earth?
[/caption] It may seem like a silly question -- of course there's life on Earth -- but what if we…
Face-to-Face With Some Shattered Lunar Boulders
[/caption] Breaking up may be hard to do, but these two lunar boulders seem to have succeeded extremely well! Imaged…
A Weekend Sky Show: Moon, Venus and Jupiter
[/caption] As promised by Nancy in a previous article on Universe Today, Venus was visible during the daylight hours this…
If the Moon Currently has Liquid Magma, Why isn’t it Erupting?
[/caption] Last year, scientists took another look at the seismic data collected by Apollo era experiments and discovered that the…
A Mardi Gras Moon Crossing
[/caption] The Sun seems to be glowing in traditional Mardi Gras colors in this image, made from three AIA channels…
Get Your Own Unprecedented 3-D View of the Moon
[/caption] Love 3-D images? Interested in maps? Want to explore the Moon? Then a new Kickstarter project may be just…
Lunar Crater Reveals Many Secrets, Including a Not-So-Young Age
[/caption] The Moon is covered with craters of various shapes and sizes, and in various states of preservation. Scientists have…
China Unveils High Resolution Global Moon Map
[/caption] Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of…