Welcome to the 200th edition of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter! 🚀🌗 I’d like to take this moment to highlight four things working on Moon Monday has enabled: 1. An extensive 4-year archive of curated ...

Many of my headlines make little sense to Google, Web Search Engines, and for SEO. For example, I titled Moon Monday #199 as “Not the fault in our stars but certainly stressful faults on our Moon”.

Yes, the headline makes little sense to Google, Web Search Engines, and for SEO. And most likely mainstream social media algorithms don’t care much for it either. Screw them all! And here’s why.

I’d like to take this moment to highlight four things working on Moon Monday has enabled: It’s truly gratifying to be able to write Moon Monday as the world’s only such resource and serve space ...

First look at the Artemis Moonwalking suit Following China’s unveiling of its lunar spacesuit last month, Axiom Space has revealed the latest design of its AxEMU suit that astronauts will wear on NASA ...

A close look at scooped lunar farside samples brought to Earth by China’s Chang’e 6 mission. They contain a diversity of stony, volcanic, impact-induced and glassy materials. Image: Chunlai Li, et al.

For most of the 20th century, scientists thought the Moon’s surface was bone-dry. The 382 kilograms of rock and soil samples brought by the Apollo missions to Earth attested to this. When they did ...

Our Moon is home to some lovely lava channels, relics from the time when our cosmic neighbor was volcanically active. My previous blog post of a curated gallery of lunar mountains was received well so ...

Update in January 2024: KPLO has not only been successfully capturing beautiful high resolution images of the Moon’s surface but uniquely studying it for various scientific purposes. On August 5, 2022 ...

When Mangalyaan entered orbit around Mars, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi had boasted that at ~$70 million, the mission was cheaper than the Hollywood film Gravity, and even an auto rickshaw ...