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Moon Monday #202: A bao-burrito-bhel of global lunar updates
Dating farside volcanic samples, awaiting the next wave of landers, and disliking opaque orbital operations.
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Moon Monday #201: Scientists can now study exotic Changāe 6 lunar samples
Plus: New round of Changāe 5 sample studies, gifting part of the Moon, and Sino-US cooperation
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Moon Monday #200: Thank you, a crewed Chinese rover, Artemis updates, and more
Welcome to the 200th edition of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter!Ā šš Iād like to take this moment to highlight four things working on Moon Monday has enabled: 1. An extensive 4-year archive of curated and contextualized global lunar exploration developments, with embedded links to everything. All editions are
I write for you, not social media or SEO
Many of my headlines make little sense to Google, Web Search Engines, and for SEO. For example, I titled Moon Monday #199 as āNot the fault in our stars but certainly stressful faults on our Moonā. Most likely, mainstream social media algorithms donāt care much for such headlines either.
Moon Monday
Moon Monday #199: Not the fault in our stars but certainly stressful faults on our Moon
Letās study Moonquakes to not let them shake a Moonbase.
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Moon Monday #198: Suit up to walk under Moonlight, and grab global mission updates
First look at the Artemis Moonwalking suit Following Chinaās unveiling of its lunar spacesuit last month, Axiom Space has revealedĀ the latest design of its AxEMU suitĀ that astronauts will wear on NASAāsĀ crewed Artemis IIIĀ lunar surface mission later this decade. The first-time unveiling of the
Indian Space
Discussing Indiaās lunar exploration heading with Carnegie India (podcast)
I was a guest on Carnegie Indiaās podcast Interpreting India. In light of the recently approved Chandrayaan 4 sample return mission, we discuss for a good 45 minutes where Indiaās Moon exploration plans are heading, and what are the enablers and constraints on the increasingly complex road for
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Moon Monday #197: Starship Artemis, and lunar mission updates
NASAās road to the Moon inches through Starship SpaceXās fifth launch of its fully integrated Starship Super HeavyĀ rocket onĀ October 13 was aĀ resounding success, with both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship second stage completing their flight as well as soft return objectives. With this
Indian Space
Indian Space Progress #20ā21: ISROās plan to study Venus alongside NASA and ESA
Also in this special edition: ISROās ambitions to fetch samples from the Moon, build a space station, and develop a heavy-lift rocket!
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Moon Monday #196: Confusion about lunar water and LUPEX, and papers plus mission updates
The hunt for water on the Moon continues US researchers find that permanently shadowed regions up to 77Ā° latitudeāwhich is outside the Moonās south poleācould host surface and near-surface water ice, thereby expanding the presence of such regions farther than previously expected. This result is based
Letās explore our Moonās mountains! š
The Moon is home to some amazing mountains. Unlike the millions of years it takes for most mountains on Earth to form via slowly colliding tectonic plates, most lunar mountains form near-instantly through asteroid or cometary impacts.Ā Here are some resources to explore them. š» 1. With cool elevation graphs
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Moon Monday #195: Little LUNA on Earth, a Sino spacesuit, and communicating navcom
You know how I remarked in the previous Moon Monday about having two feature stories instead of one to adequately contextualize big new developments? Well, this weekās Moon Monday has three! For Europe, China, and the US. š Europeās new test facility brings more of those lunar vibes on
