The moon is beautiful tonight.

The moon is beautiful tonight.

New Scars Found on Moon: The largest of the newly found graben, in highlands on the moon’s far side. Image courtesy ASU/SI/NASA Parts of the moon’s surface have been stretched apart to form shallow, sunken valleys, according to a new study based on NASA images. The presence of the long, thin valleys—known as graben—suggests that the moon has undergone relatively recent tectonic activity, within the past 50 million years or so. That activity in turn hints that the moon may not have been entirely melted when it first formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago. Instead the early moon likely had a solid core covered by a global ocean of molten rock.

New Scars Found on Moon: The largest of the newly found graben, in highlands on the moon’s far side.

Image courtesy ASU/SI/NASA

Parts of the moon’s surface have been stretched apart to form shallow, sunken valleys, according to a new study based on NASA images.

The presence of the long, thin valleys—known as graben—suggests that the moon has undergone relatively recent tectonic activity, within the past 50 million years or so.

That activity in turn hints that the moon may not have been entirely melted when it first formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago. Instead the early moon likely had a solid core covered by a global ocean of molten rock.

Hunting a Night Hunter (di Vapileh)

Hunting a Night Hunter (di Vapileh)

Moon Halo by Sean King

Moon Halo by Sean King

Lunar Terminator

Lunar Terminator

Saturn’s moon Enceladus appears to be cloaked in drifts of powdery snow around 330 feet (100 meters). Scientists estimate that Enceladus’s low gravity—about one percent that of Earth—allows some of the ice emitted by the polar geysers to jet into space rather than falling back to the moon’s surface. by Nasa

Saturn’s moon Enceladus appears to be cloaked in drifts of powdery snow around 330 feet (100 meters).

Scientists estimate that Enceladus’s low gravity—about one percent that of Earth—allows some of the ice emitted by the polar geysers to jet into space rather than falling back to the moon’s surface.

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Tomorrow night the new moon will make a close approach to Earth, giving rise to the second supermoon of the year—but this one will have the power of invisibility.

Tomorrow night the new moon will make a close approach to Earth, giving rise to the second supermoon of the year—but this one will have the power of invisibility.

Hunting the Moon by Jean-Baptiste Feldmann

Hunting the Moon

by Jean-Baptiste Feldmann

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Saturn’s icy moon Dione has an atmosphere, albeit a thin one, astronomers have discovered. Image courtesy SSI/NASA

Saturn’s icy moon Dione has an atmosphere, albeit a thin one, astronomers have discovered.

Image courtesy SSI/NASA

(Fonte: National Geographic)

Diamond ring - Turkey 2006 (di JDurston2009)

Diamond ring - Turkey 2006 (di JDurston2009)

Moon Footprint (Photograph courtesy NASA) A symbol of mankind’s giant leap, this photo of man’s small step—astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s—shows one of the first human prints left on the surface of the moon. Aldrin took this photo of his own footprint during NASA’s 1969 Apollo 11 mission.

Moon Footprint

(Photograph courtesy NASA)

A symbol of mankind’s giant leap, this photo of man’s small step—astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s—shows one of the first human prints left on the surface of the moon. Aldrin took this photo of his own footprint during NASA’s 1969 Apollo 11 mission.

(Fonte: National Geographic)

Sixteen Moons (by Fragile Oasis)

Sixteen Moons (by Fragile Oasis)

Hitoshi Nomura made ‘Moon Scores’ between 1975 and 1979, the project consisted to take photographs from the lunar body moving across the night sky.  Nomura marked the film  with five lines, turning the photographs series into an item of musical notation. Transferring the notes to staff paper, he then had the chance compositions performed by a chorus and a string quartet.


Hitoshi Nomura made ‘Moon Scores’ between 1975 and 1979, the project consisted to take photographs from the lunar body moving across the night sky.  Nomura marked the film  with five lines, turning the photographs series into an item of musical notation. Transferring the notes to staff paper, he then had the chance compositions performed by a chorus and a string quartet.

Lunar “Grin” Photograph courtesy of NASA

Lunar “Grin”

Photograph courtesy of NASA

(Fonte: National Geographic)

Photograph courtesy NASA Earth may have once had two moons, but one was destroyed in a slow-motion collision that left our current lunar orb lumpier on one side than the other, scientists say.

Photograph courtesy NASA Earth may have once had two moons, but one was destroyed in a slow-motion collision that left our current lunar orb lumpier on one side than the other, scientists say.

(Fonte: National Geographic)