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NASA / The Atlantic Moon Bloopers, a NASA Study
In the 1970s, the agency analyzed the way astronauts tripped and slid across the lunar surface.
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NASA Moonquakes and Marsquakes
Earth isn’t the only place that shakes from time to time.
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HelenField / Shutterstock Why Land on the Moon? To See If We Can
Revisiting a classic 1963 essay that argued in favor of a manned lunar mission—and tried to quiet the critics who called it a moondoggle
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Andrew Symes How to Actually Take a Good iPhone Photo of the Moon
Andrew Symes takes stunning pictures of the planets with just his smartphone—and a telescope.
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davejdoe/Flickr Now People Can Send Their Old Cuff Links to the Moon
Sorry, moon.
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Lunar Mission One A Time Capsule on the Moon
Lunar Mission One will launch in 2024—if enough backers fund the project on Kickstarter.
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CNSA What the Earth Looks Like From the Far Side of the Moon
A Chinese mission's image of our sole satellite and blue marble
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Google Earth/NASA Wait, Is That a Human on the Moon?
No, NASA says.
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Carlo Allegri/Reuters How the Moon Became a Real Place
Once humans stepped on, smelled, and tasted the lunar surface—our relationship with it changed forever.
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Reuters A Reading List of Stories About the Moon
For the 45th anniversary of the lunar landing, we dipped into the archives.
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flickr/Janet Ramsden Buzz Aldrin on the Moon: 'More Desolate Than Any Place on Earth'
The second man to set foot on the lunar surface answers the Internet's questions.
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Otsuka via The Verge We're Now Putting Ads on the Moon
A beverage company is soon to put some sports drink on the lunar surface.
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A Beautiful GIF of Earth Rising Over the Moon's Horizon
With a little Photoshop trick, a shaky video is transformed into a mesmerizing view of Earth.
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A Rare Glimpse of the Moon Orbiting the Earth From Afar
In just a few flickering pixels, our entire planet and its only moon.
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AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams Here's a Climate-Change Fix: a Giant Solar-Power Plant on the Moon
Imagined by Japan, staffed by robots
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Not Sleeping Well? Blame the Moon
Lunar phases seem to affect the length and quality of our sleep.
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Ron Miller / BNPS What the Night Sky Would Look Like If the Other Planets Were as Close as the Moon
It's not always easy to imagine just how big the other planets are. Here, a space artist's thought experiment turns into a lesson in Earth's relative size.
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Oops! This Lab Neglected to Return the Samples of Moondust NASA Loaned It
Something to make you feel better about those library books you still haven't returned
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How Did the Moon Form? We May Need a New Theory
There may be much more water on the moon than we thought. And that could change everything.
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Thousands of Minimoons: Our Moon Is Not Alone
There's the one big one we all know and love, but there are also minimoons that temporarily orbit our planet. Maybe, just maybe, we can snag one and bring it back to Earth.
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