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How the Apollo missions transformed our understanding of the Moon’s origin
And how going back to the Moon will tell us how Earth and Luna formed.
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By Jatan Mehta | Dives into lunar exploration, space technology, Indian space, planetary science, and more.
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Everything we know about the rover NASA's Artemis astronauts will drive on the Moon
The Lunar Terrain Vehicle will be vastly more capable than the rover rode by Apollo astronauts.
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Are planets with two stars promising places for life?
A look at the potential for habitable planets in binary systems despite their chaotic births.
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NASA’s Artemis I is loaded with sidekick science and technology missions
January 2023 Edit: I’ve covered post-launch updates on the CubeSats on Moon Monday #104, #105, and #108. NASA is all set to launch the SLS rocket on August 29, setting in motion the historic Artemis I mission to send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back. While
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My articles on Indian space
Here are all notable articles and blog posts I’ve published on India’s largely successful—but also very opaque—space program, including all of its planetary missions. I keep updating any evergreen posts within this list, and will maintain the list itself for the convenience of readers, so make
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Space science missions ISRO will launch in the near future
India’s nascent space science endeavors to get a much needed boost.
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Lunar Trailblazer, NASA’s Moon water mapper
Advancing our understanding of water across the Moon for exploration and science.
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Ultimate guide to water on the Moon
Water ice on the lunar poles is central to exploration plans of space agencies worldwide.
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Looking back at Chandrayaan 1 and forward to Artemis
India’s first Moon mission discovered lunar water, and catalyzed plans by nations worldwide to further explore our cosmic neighbor.
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Recipes to make moons
Our Solar System hosts a great diversity of moons. There’s our own Moon, whose airlessness makes it a natural geological time capsule of events in the early Solar System. There’s Saturn’s largest satellite Titan, which boasts an atmosphere and lakes of methane in eerie reminiscence to adolescent
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Looking back at Pathfinder as the start of modern Mars exploration
And a cool fact about the mission and the Internet.
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Rings in our Solar System can come and go
By the time Saturn becomes a pale hazy brown ringless orb, another planet will have adorned a cosmic crown of its own.