For the first time in more than 30 years we will be able to see a supermoon in combination with a total eclipse of the Moon. The moon on the night of September 27-28 will be visible at it’s brightest and biggest, as it makes its closest approach to the Earth. In the Northern Hemisphere […]
Monthly Archives: September 2015
This shaded relief image shows the moon’s Shackleton Crater, situated near to the Lunar south pole, which is permanently shadowed. The interior structure is illustrated in colour based on data from NASA’s LRO probe. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SVS “A team of researchers lead by Bill Farrell of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, investigated how […]