On 20th July 2019: it will be 50 years since the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, and events are being staged around the globe to commemorate the occasion. We’ve put together a list of Apollo 50th Anniversary Events for you to enjoy. On May 25th 1961 President John F. Kennedy announced his ambitious goal of […]
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May
May
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing a major new exhibition is being staged at The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich London. Opening in July 2019, the exhibition is dedicated to all things Moon related and promises “amazing objects that have been to the Moon and back”. Items include lunar samples collected from NASA’s […]
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Apr
Apr
Exciting news has recently come out of China, that they are aiming to be the first country to land a probe on the dark side of the Moon, later this year. According to The Xinhua new agency they are planning to land the Chang’e-4 probe, in an attempt to grow flowers on the Moon’s surface. […]
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Nov
Nov
The full Moon of November 14th 2016 will occur at 13.53 GMT, only a few hours after the Moon is at what is known as perigee, the point in the Moon’s orbit when it is closest to Earth. The resulting supermoon will appear to be up to 14% bigger, and 30% brighter than the usual […]
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Sep
Sep
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 […]
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Sep
Sep
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 […]
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Aug
Aug
This is a wonderful video put together by NASA to explain the way the Moon has evolved.
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Aug
Aug
This man, Gene Cerman was the last of the 12 human beings to set foot on the surface of the Moon. Photo Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Only 12 human beings have had the pleasure of walking on the surface of the Moon. The most famous were of course the two Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong […]
All, Moon Facts
The average distance between the Earth and the Moon is about 240,000 miles (385,000 kms)
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Jul
Jul
The Moon moves in a counterclockwise direction with an average orbital speed of about 0.6 miles/sec or 2,160 m.p.h. Because the lunar orbit is elliptical, the distance between the Earth and the Moon varies between about 227,000 miles (365,000 km) at perigee, and about 254,000 miles (409,000 km) at apogee, when the Moon is farthest […]
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Jul
Jul
There is no air on the Moon, but it has recently been announced that water is definitely present. In 2013 NASA funded Lunar research found evidence of water locked in mineral grains, deep beneath the surface. Using data from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument aboard the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists remotely […]
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