#night #clouds and the #moon (it's a πŸŒ™)#sky #photography

πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ TIL: πŸŒ™πŸͺ¨ A lunar #meteorite called Northwest #Africa 12593 preserves evidence of three impacts, including one 3.5 billion years ago that melted #lunar rock.

University of #Colorado #Boulder researchers linked the blast to similar impacts on #Earth and #asteroid #Vesta when #life was first appearing here.

πŸ‘‰ https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-piece-of-the-moon-found-in-africa-records-a-giant-lunar-impact-from-the-dawn-of-life-on-earth/

#moon #space #geology #science #northwestafrica #earthscience #solarsystem #minerals

A Piece of the Moon Found in Africa Records a Giant Lunar Impact From the Dawn of Life on Earth

A lunar meteorite links ancient impacts on the moon, Earth and asteroid Vesta.

ZME Science
Comme il a pas le mastodon je vous partage la photo qu'a prise mon copain : la lune et Venus #skyphotography #moon #venus #astrophotography

Stern also said that the initial capability would be to land at nearside sites up to 75Β° latitude in either hemisphere, with longer stays and polar and farside site capabilities added later.

A more serious effort commenced with a workshop held at LPI in October 2013. I attended it, with a poster. It happened during one of those periodic US government shutdowns so some folk were only on screen. Lots of sites were discussed.
#moon #goldenspike

One reward for participating in the Indiegogo event was to choose a landing area from a list of eight: Aristarchus, Copernicus, Davy crater chain, Marius Hills, SchrΓΆter’s Valley, Tycho, Plato and Dionysius, and the winner was Aristarchus. I don't know how the list was compiled.

Stern said at LPSC in 2013 that a Russian response to the Golden Spike concept had been that they could land by one of their old landers, and NASA suggested the same later.
#moon #goldenspike

You found $1.5 billion under a couch cushion and purchased a Golden Spike flight. Where are you going to go? You get to choose - landing sites would be chosen by each customer, but Golden Spike initiated discussion through a crowdfunding exercise on Indiegogo.com in the spring of 2013, not to fund lunar missions but for outreach and public participation. The goal was to raise $240,000 US ($1 per mile to the Moon) but only $19,450 was collected. We call this foreshadowing!
#moon #goldenspike

Nice evening to see the planetary parade with a crescent moon.

#Astronomy #Moon #Venus #Jupiter #Mars