#lunarfarside — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lunarfarside, aggregated by home.social.
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"Chang'E-4 (CE4), the first mission to soft-land on the lunar farside, provides a unique opportunity for astronomical observations from an environment shielded from terrestrial radio interference, and thus serves as pathfinder for #LunarFarside radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) studies. We present a search for periodic technosignatures using low-frequency radio observations from the CE-4 mission, the first radio #SETI study based on data from on the observation in lunar farside": https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07920 - spoiler: no aliens called the far side of the #Moon ...
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Crescent Earth Over Lunar Horizon 🌎🌑🧑🚀
#Artemis #ArtemisII #Crater #Earth #Farside #Lunar #LunarFarside #LunarFlyby
⏩ 4 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=4&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260410010120
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Ultra-depleted mantle source of basalts from the South Pole–Aitken basin: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09131-7 -> "Here we present the petrology and geochemistry of basalt fragments from Chang’e-6 (CE6), the first returned #LunarFarside samples from the SPA basin [...] Either way, originating during the LMO or later melt extraction, the ultra-depleted mantle beneath the SPA basin offers a deep observational window into early lunar crust–mantle differentiation." Three older CE6 papers are also in https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/643/issues/8071 with the strange cover picture https://bsky.app/profile/andrewjonesspace.bsky.social/post/3ltlh6d4h5c2d which is probably fake: https://bsky.app/profile/stim3on.bsky.social/post/3ltlm6um3a223
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📸 Lunar Farside
From lunar orbit, we can view the Moon's rugged farside. This sharp mosaic, made from over 15,000 images by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, reveals a surface very different from the smooth nearside.
📅 June 28, 2025
📷 NASA / GSFC / ASU / LRO
🔗 https://stellarsnap.space
#APOD #LunarFarside #Moon #LRO #LunarReconnaissanceOrbiter #NASA #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #LunarScience #PlanetaryScience #MoonCrust #NoDarkMaria -
Water abundance in the lunar farside mantle: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08870-x -> Chinese Scientists Discover Drier Mantle on Moon's Farside, Offering Potential Insight on Lunar Evolution: https://english.cas.cn/head/202503/t20250327_908846.shtml / Drier #LunarFarside offers insight on moon's evolution: https://english.news.cn/20250409/3a1859b37d144d418055eee52449f50b/c.html / Soil from the moon’s far side suggests drier conditions than the side facing Earth: https://apnews.com/article/moon-far-side-near-side-water-18081418600ea93bac69ac6af86a761b
