The Most Complete Map of the Moon
Future exploration of the Moon requires precise knowledge of the distribution of rock types on the lunar surface. A recent map released by the United States Geological Survey separates the […]
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Evolution of the Lunar Crust as told by Feldspathic Meteorites
The lunar magma ocean (LMO) hypothesis describes the early differentiation and resulting compositional structure of the Moon’s interior, including the formation of a primary flotation crust consisting of anorthositic rocks. […]
Community Announcement: Commercial Lunar Payload Services Virtual Discussion on December 4
Dear Lunar Community, We would like to host a two-hour virtual discussion session on Wednesday, December 4 from 2–4 p.m. EST in order to share our thoughts on how we […]
International Observe the Moon Night is October 5
International Observe the Moon Night is a worldwide celebration of lunar science and exploration held annually since 2010. One day each year, everyone on Earth is invited to observe and […]
Mass Concentrations Under South Polar Basin Yield Clues About Lunar History
The South Pole-Aitken (SP-A) basin is the largest impact feature on the Moon, 2500 kilometers in diameter and 13 kilometers deep. Observations made by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory […]
Postdoc Opportunity in Lunar Regolith Processes at Purdue University
The Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science at Purdue University has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher to lead a joint code development, modeling, and remote sensing project focused […]
The Moon’s Mantle Revealed by the Chang’e 4 Rover
The 2,500-kilometer-diameter South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is the largest impact structure on the Moon. Such very large impact craters can potentially penetrate through the crust and sample the underlying lunar […]
Earth and Moon Were Pummeled Beginning 300 Million Years Ago
Impact cratering from asteroids and comets is perhaps the most important process that shapes planet surfaces in the solar system, so it is important to know the rate of impact […]
China’s Chang’e 4 Probe Makes Historic Landing on the Far Side of the Moon
China’s Chang’e 4 probe successfully landed on the far side of the Moon on Thursday, January 3, at 10:26 am (Beijing time). This is the first mission to land on […]
Detailed Geological Characteristics of Von Kármán Crater, Northwestern SPA Basin: Chang’E-4 Landing Site Region
The farside South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is the largest known impact structure on the Moon and is a hot spot for scientific and space exploration. In 2018, the Chinese Chang’e-4 […]
Moon Dust Potentially Hazardous to Astronauts
The lunar surface is covered by regolith that contains microscopically small, angular, and abrasive dust particles. A new study on simulants, carried out by Rachel Caston and colleagues at Stony Brook University, […]
Geosciences Special Issue: Recent Advances in Lunar Studies
Dear Colleagues, The journal Geosciences is accepting papers for a Special Issue related to recent advances in studies of the Moon. The deadline has been extended until the end of […]
EPSC 2018 Call for Abstracts: Late Accretion onto the Moon, Earth and other Terrestrial Planets
Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the European Planetary Science Congress 2018, EPSC 2018 (16–21 September 2018, Berlin, Germany), on the Session LSE1/TP15: […]
That’s Quite an Attractive Anomaly
Unlike Earth, the Moon does not have a global magnetic field, but it does display regional magnetic anomalies. The magnetic carrier in lunar rocks is metallic iron, but indigenous lunar […]
Lunar Phases, On Your Own Schedule
Goddard has recently released a new Scientific Visualization Studio webpage focusing on the Moon and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data: Moon Phase and Libration, 2018. Beginning January 1, 2018, the page […]
Mercury Takes Quite a Beating
In an effort to compare the relative rates of landform evolution on the Moon and Mercury, Caleb Fassett of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and his team measured the depth-to-diameter […]
2017 NASA Exploration Science Forum
NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) will hold the annual Exploration Science Forum (ESF) July 18-20, 2017 at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Moffett Field, Calif: https://nesf2017.arc.nasa.gov/ The […]
AGU Session 24418: Exploring the Surface Properties of the Moon, Asteroids, and other Airless Bodies
The close collaboration between science, technology, and exploration enables a deeper understanding of the Moon and other airless bodies as our manned missions move further out of low-Earth orbit, return […]
AGU 2016 SESSION: P032: The Science of Exploration as enabled by the Moon, Near Earth Asteroids and the moons of Mars
Session ID#: 13390 Session Description: A close collaboration between science, technology and exploration will enable deeper understanding of the Moon and other airless bodies as we move further out of […]
PLANETARY SCIENCE SHORT COURSE
2016 Planetary Science Short Course (PLANETSC 9603A) Offered through the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), the Department of Earth Sciences, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University […]