14 month ago
nelson : Lunar mapping - Marius Watz discovers some amazing map visualizations
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factoryjoe : In the Shadow of the Moon - apparently I should see this. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: movie
deusx : In the Shadow of the Moon - remember when the whole world looked up
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34 month ago
deusx : NASA - Apollo Chronicles: The Smell of Moondust - "Why does it smell? How does it react with landers, rovers and habitats? What surprises await?"
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38 month ago
deusx : NASA - How We'll Get Back to the Moon - Finally waking up from the shuttle disaster? (The whole program, that is.) "Building on the best of Apollo and shuttle technology, NASA's creating a 21st century exploration system that will be affordable, reliable, versatile, and safe."
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Wired News: Moon Could Be Next Tourist Trap - The company that pioneered commercial space travel by sending "tourists" up to the International Space Station is planning a new mission: rocketing people around the far side of the moon
deusx : Wired News: Moon Could Be Next Tourist Trap - "The first mission by Space Adventures could happen in 2008 or 2009 and is planned as a stepping stone to an eventual lunar landing by private citizens."
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41 month ago
Andy Baio : Google Moon - try zooming all the way in
jkottke : Google Moon: explore the Apollo landing sites in the Google Maps interface
joshua : Google Moon - mmm, cheese
kayodeok : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - "In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we?ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor"
gleuschk : Google Moon - zoom all the way in
Rod Begbie : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - Lovely little Googletreat to celebrate the anniversary of the moon landings. Make sure and try zooming in to the maximum resolution to see what the moon is made of. #
jimray : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - Just a small slice of the moon, commemorating the original moon landing 36 years ago. Still cool, though.
erikbenson : Google Moon - Zoom in all the way to see the moon at a level of detail never experienced before.
Simon Willison : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - Be sure to zoom all the way in for a Wallace and Gromit like revelation. (via) [via]
Philippe Janvier : Google Moon - Un petit pas pour l'homme... [via] #
Linkorama : Google Moon - Honestly, if you are going to visit a fairly large moon, why would you keep going to the same place? What is this, Lunar Vegas?
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41 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: Abandoned spaceship snapshots are on the way - "...the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will also snap the first close-range pics of Apollo relics we've seen for three decades." But, of course, they still won't believe we've been to the moon...
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45 month ago
deusx : news @ nature.com - Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion  - Images reveal worrying cracks in the face of the Moon. - "These earthly bacteria, exposed to intense ultraviolet radiation on the lunar surface, could have acquired mutations that allow them to digest Moon rocks, he suggests."
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plasticbag : A stunning and beautifully exotic story of an alien moon - "Liquid methane rain feeds river channels, lakes, streams, and springs on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, images from the Huygens probe show..."
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47 month ago
plasticbag : A coloured image of the surface of Titan - I don't really understand this stuff - I don't really see why you couldn't take a colour photo. Surely people on earth want to see what it would be like to experience Titan directly?
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47 month ago
plasticbag : Composite image of the surface of Titan from Huygens' descent to the moon - At first glance it really does look like a coastline and some form of liquid sea. I love this stuff. I was gutted when the Beagle 2 failed. Totally gutted.
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50 month ago
jkottke : A time lapse photo of the recent lunar eclipse
plasticbag : A Time Lapse Lunar Eclipse - A stunning visualisation of the moon as it passes through the shadow of the earth. Terribly cool. Terribly beautiful.
Richard Rutter : Time lapse lunar eclipse - Fabulous imagery of the Earth’s shadow engulfing the Moon (filed under Stuff). [via plasticbag.org]
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