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📣Attention, geology enthusiasts! In celebration of #GeologicMapDay, explore our Unified Geologic Map of the Moon! 🌒 Created by the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, in collaboration with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Lunar and Planetary Institute, this first-ever comprehensive map reveals the moon’s entire surface geology, combining Apollo-era data with recent satellite missions. Not only does it show the 4.5-billion-year history of our lunar neighbor, but it’s also a key tool for future human missions and an invaluable resource for scientists, educators, and space enthusiasts. Download the entire map and legend here: https://ow.ly/YMUw50TOTY1 #EarthScienceWeek #NASA #MoonMap #GeologicMap #Apollo #LunarScience #SpaceExploration #Geology 📹: This animation shows a rotating globe of the new Unified Geologic Map of the Moon with shaded topography from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA). Credit: NASA/GSFC/USGS.

🌕 The Missions to the Moon, a global exploration effort! Week 5 of "The Moon and its Exploration" dives into the post-Apollo lunar missions! From robotic landers to orbiters, we’ll uncover how these programs shaped our understanding of the Moon and paved the way for future exploration. Interested in learning more about the Moon, join us, you are invited! Classes starts Friday October 25, 2024 at 4 - 6 pm PT! Register now: https://lnkd.in/ggg3vtea Please share this post with your network to help inspire future explorers. Thank you for sharing! #MoonExploration #MoonExploration #PostApollo #SpaceScience #SpaceEducation #STEM Pascal Lee Mars Institute NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Ames Research Center National Space Society

Moon Missions 1950s: Dawn of the Space Age 1960s: Race to the Moon 1970s: Sampling the Moon 1980s: Quiet Moon 1990s: Robots Return 2000s: International Moon 2010s: Delving Deeper 2020s: Back to the Surface Learn More: https://lnkd.in/g2nvGHtK #spaceeducation #spaceexploration

Welcome home Crew-8! Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, spent 232 days aboard the space station. During their mission, crew members traveled nearly 100 million miles and completed 3,760 orbits around Earth. They conducted new scientific research to advance human exploration beyond low Earth orbit and benefit human life on Earth. Research and technology demonstrations included conducting stem cell research to develop organoid models for studying degenerative diseases, exploring how fuel temperature affects material flammability, and studying how spaceflight affects immune function in astronauts. Their work aims to improve astronaut health during long-duration spaceflights, contributing to critical advancements in space medicine and benefitting humanity. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 members, from left to right, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin and NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps, are seen inside the Dragon spacecraft shortly after having landed off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on Oct. 25, 2024. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Learn More about the Commercial Crew Program: https://lnkd.in/gRbzF8vA #spaceeducation #spaceexploration #commercialspace #crew8 #NASA

🌕 The Moon is more than just craters! Explore its unique volcanic plains, rugged highlands, basins, and the far side in "The Moon and its Exploration" course at Kepler Space University. In Week 4, we will cover Special Areas and Features on the Moon including; South Pole Aitken Basin; Schrödinger Basin; Lunar Polar Regions; Water on the Moon; Pits and Caves on the Moon; Reiner Gamma and Other Lunar Swirls; Aristarchus, Copernicus, Tycho, Clavius and Philolaus Craters; and The Lunar Far Side. Interested in learning more about the Moon, join us, you are invited! Classes starts Friday October 25, 2024! Register now: https://lnkd.in/ggg3vtea Please share this post with your network to help inspire future explorers.  Thank you for sharing! #MoonExploration #LunarGeology #SpaceScience #SpaceEducation #STEM Pascal Lee Mars Institute NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Ames Research Center National Space Society

Inflatable habitation for the lunar base Inflatable structures have a number of advantages over rigid modules in providing habitation at a lunar base. Some of these advantages are packaging efficiency, convenience of expansion, flexibility, and psychological benefit to the inhabitants. The relatively small, rigid cylinders fitted to the payload compartment of a launch vehicle are not as efficient volumetrically as a collapsible structure that fits into the same space when packaged, but when deployed is much larger. Pressurized volume is a valuable resource. By providing that resource efficiently, in large units, labor intensive external expansion (such as adding additional modules to the existing base) can be minimized. The expansive interior in an inflatable would facilitate rearrangement of the interior to suite the evolving needs of the base. This large, continuous volume would also relieve claustrophobia, enhancing habitability and improving morale. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the aspects of inflatable habitat design, including structural, architectural, and environmental considerations. As a specific case, the conceptual design of an inflatable lunar habitat, developed for the Lunar Base Systems Study at the Johnson Space Center, is described. M. Roberts. "Inflatable habitation for the lunar base" The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, Volume 1. 1992

This image of the Moon was obtained by the Galileo Solid State imaging system on Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. PST as the Galileo spacecraft passed the Earth and was able to view the lunar surface from a vantage point not possible from the Earth. On the right-hand side of the image is seen the dark maria of Oceanus Procellarum, also visible from the Earth. The dark spots in the center are Mare Orientale, on the western limb of the nearside of the moon, a region barely visible from the Earth. This region and the bright far side highlands on the left have not been seen previously by a camera system such as the one on the Galileo spacecraft, which provides multispectral images of the lunar limb and far side which have not previously been obtained. Comparison of such images to those of the near-side areas from which Apollo astronauts have returned samples will help us understand the spectral properties and composition of the lunar far side. Credit: NASA/JPL #spaceeducatioon #spaceexploration #Moon

🌑 What do the Moon's dark maria and bright highlands tell us about its past? Find out in "The Moon and its Exploration" as we dive into Lunar geology! 📅 Learn more—class starts this Friday: https://lnkd.in/ggg3vtea In Week 3, we cover: Geophysics and internal structure of the Moon; The surface of the Moon; Lunar highlands; Lunar mare; The Lunar Regolith. Lunar Samples and Meteorites; Dust on the Moon; Lunar Surface Processes. Impact Cratering on the Moon; Lunar Volcanism; Lunar Tectonism; Solar Wind Interactions on the Moon; Ionizing Radiation on the Moon; Electrostatics on the Moon; Micro-meteoritic gardening on the Moon; Origin of the Moon. You are invited! All you need is to bring your curiosity and passion for space! #MoonGeology #LunarScience #KeplerU #spacescholars #STEM #ISRU Pascal Lee SETI Institute. Mars Institute NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Ames Research Center National Space Society

Geology of the Moon by Arch Geikie For many years past geologists have turned wistfully to the moon in the hope of gaining from a study of its surface some insight into planetary evolution, and more especially into some of the stages in the history of our own globe. It must be confessed, however, that as yet few satisfactory data have been obtained, either in the facts observed or in the deductions drawn from them. The great majority of those who have studied the subject have formed the opinion that our satellite was once a liquid mass, such as we believe the earth itself to have also been, and that its so-called “craters” represent extensive and prolonged volcanic activity, when the gases and lava of the heated interior escaped to the surface, probably on a scale of magnitude greatly surpassing that on which subterranean energy has ever been manifested in the geological history of our planet. But another explanation has been proposed for these lunar features, according to which, as worked out by Mr. G. K.Gilbert, of the United States Geological Survey, the moon was formed by the aggregation of a ring of meteorites which once encircled the earth, and the “craters,” instead of arising from the escape of volcanic energy from within, were produced by the impact of the last meteoric bodies that fell from without. These bodies, arriving with planetary velocity, would be melted or reduced to gas, while a portion of the lunar surface around them would also be liquefied. Mr. Gilbert believes that the lunar topography bears witness to such a meteoritic bombardment rather than to gigantic volcanic explosions. #spaceeducation #spaceexploration #lunarhistory GEIKIE, A. GEOLOGY OF THE MOON . Nature 71, 348–350 (1905).

Upcoming Science Launching to the International Space Station! NASA and its international partners are launching scientific investigations on SpaceX’s 31st commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station including studies of solar wind, a radiation-tolerant moss, spacecraft materials, and cold welding in space. The company’s Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read more about some of the research making the journey to the orbiting laboratory: https://lnkd.in/gS2gkbu3 #spaceeducation #spaceexploration #spaceexperiments #iss