Moon Monday

This International Moon Day learn and share how countries worldwide have explored our stellar cosmic companion

Moon Monday #284

In 2021, the United Nations proclaimed July 20th as International Moon Day, via the resolution 76/76 on “international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space”. Some key goals of the day are to promote awareness about our Moon’s unique scientific and cultural importance as well as how countries worldwide are exploring it. To that end, I present a curated webpage of linked, free resources for people from all backgrounds to learn about our Moon as well as dive into specific exploration themes from the past to the present. Of course, for regular Moon Monday readers, every Monday is International Moon Day. 🌝

Note: You can also click on the images to open the respective links. (Since this is a visual browsing page, image credits are inside the links.)

Look up to our Moon

**Our Moon is valuable even beyond itself ✨**

**Luna Sights – A visual tour of our Moon, at scales big and small**

Science facts from simply watching the Moon 🌕

NASA’s Moon page 🌙

Programs and global progress

**How the Apollo missions transformed our understanding of the Moon’s origin**

**Artemis II flew four astronauts around the Moon**

Curated Apollo stories 🧑🏻‍🚀

Experience Apollo in real time ⏱️

**Deep dive into India’s Chandrayaan Moon missions**

**KPLO, South Korea’s first Moon mission**

**Blue Ghost 1, the first successful private Moon lander**

**China’s lunar leaps and fetched samples**

**JAXA’s SLIM lander sparked an era of precision landings**

**How engineers test Moon landers on Earth**

**How India-US and India-Japan have collaborated to select lunar landing sites**

Global lunar activities in 2026 🌗

Moon missions worldwide in 2025 🌕

2024 lunar exploration rundown 🌙

Lunar science

**How NASA and India discovered water on the Moon**

**Moon mountains are a marvel of instant formation**

**Visualizing a new Moon based on scientific discoveries by China’s Chang’e 6 mission**

**Ultimate guide to water on the Moon** and **permanently shadowed regions**

**How China’s Chang’e 7 mission will comprehensively study lunar polar water**

ESA’s Library of Lunar Science 🔭

Lunar poetry

An ode to our Moon 🌙

Selene, smashed not shattered 💥

Back to the Moon..

Don’t screw up the Moon :/

The dawn of your light 🌕

Fascinated by our Moon?

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This International Moon Day learn and share how countries worldwide have explored our stellar cosmic companion

Look up to our Moon

Programs and global progress

Lunar science

Lunar poetry

Fascinated by our Moon?

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