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Best of 2021
Here are my most notable articles on space exploration and the Moon this year.
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Moon Monday
Moon Monday Issue #57
India's Chandrayaan 3 Moon landing on track for Q3 2022 launch; Mexico joins U.S. Artemis Accords to cooperate in lunar exploration; China's rover finds ancient soil layer underground, & more updates.
I’ve had a monumental shift in my worldview after reading Carl Sagan’s Cosmos
Literal, the new Goodreads competitor in town for book aficionados, interviewed me a few months ago (for some reason) about how my interest in space exploration shapes what I read. Also for some reason, their interview of me or anyone else has no link other than all such posts simply
Views of Mars from India's Mangalyaan orbiter
I compiled this video from some pretty views of the Red Planet shot by the orbiter.
Moon Monday
Moon Monday Issue #56
ESA training future astronauts in a Moon-like lava tube; NASA SLS rocket to get booster upgrade next decade; a microcrystal for lunar solar power; how to process Chang'e data, and more lunar updates.
On some major upcoming European planetary missions
The European Space Agency is sending some of the most ambitious missions to explore the solar system in the next 10 years.
What are swirls on the Moon?
The bright and magnetic features whose origin remain a mystery.
Moon Monday
Moon Monday Issue #55
Japan to recruit new astronauts for Gateway lunar station; Intuitive Machines to attempt a Moon landing selfie; carbon dioxide cold traps on the Moon confirmed, and more lunar updates.
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Gallery: Our Moon's marvelous mountains
A peek at lunar peaks, mountain rings, volcanic domes, and more.
Moon Monday
Moon Monday Issue #54
NASA to send commercial Moon lander to an enigmatic swirl, U.S. watchdog says Artemis is currently unsustainable, Northrop Grumman to bid rugged rover for future astronauts, and more lunar updates.
The Moon will always be there
Even as the night sky goes starless.
Moon Monday
Moon Monday Issue #53
NASA delays landing humans on the Moon, Astrobotic builds lunar regolith lab to test rovers, ESA training astronauts in geology and making a tablet for Moonwalks, and more lunar updates.