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  1. LRO rolled 51° to the east allowing LROC to capture this dramatic oblique view of McGetchin crater, incidence angle 68°, M1527218499L,R

    Credit:
    NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines].

    The LROC team proposed the name McGetchin to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to honor Thomas McGetchin, a pioneering lunar scientist during the Apollo era of lunar exploration. Dr. McGetchin made significant contributions to our understanding of impact cratering mechanics, and, appropriately, McGetchin crater is revealing new details of impact crater formation.
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    lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501

    #space #moon #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod

  2. LRO rolled 51° to the east allowing LROC to capture this dramatic oblique view of McGetchin crater, incidence angle 68°, M1527218499L,R

    Credit:
    NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines].

    The LROC team proposed the name McGetchin to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to honor Thomas McGetchin, a pioneering lunar scientist during the Apollo era of lunar exploration. Dr. McGetchin made significant contributions to our understanding of impact cratering mechanics, and, appropriately, McGetchin crater is revealing new details of impact crater formation.
    rock.geosociety.org/net/docume
    planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Nom

    lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501

    #space #moon #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod

  3. LRO rolled 51° to the east allowing LROC to capture this dramatic oblique view of McGetchin crater, incidence angle 68°, M1527218499L,R

    Credit:
    NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines].

    The LROC team proposed the name McGetchin to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to honor Thomas McGetchin, a pioneering lunar scientist during the Apollo era of lunar exploration. Dr. McGetchin made significant contributions to our understanding of impact cratering mechanics, and, appropriately, McGetchin crater is revealing new details of impact crater formation.
    rock.geosociety.org/net/docume
    planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Nom

    lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501

    #space #moon #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod

  4. LRO rolled 51° to the east allowing LROC to capture this dramatic oblique view of McGetchin crater, incidence angle 68°, M1527218499L,R

    Credit:
    NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines].

    The LROC team proposed the name McGetchin to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to honor Thomas McGetchin, a pioneering lunar scientist during the Apollo era of lunar exploration. Dr. McGetchin made significant contributions to our understanding of impact cratering mechanics, and, appropriately, McGetchin crater is revealing new details of impact crater formation.
    rock.geosociety.org/net/docume
    planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Nom

    lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501

    #space #moon #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod

  5. LRO rolled 51° to the east allowing LROC to capture this dramatic oblique view of McGetchin crater, incidence angle 68°, M1527218499L,R

    Credit:
    NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines].

    The LROC team proposed the name McGetchin to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to honor Thomas McGetchin, a pioneering lunar scientist during the Apollo era of lunar exploration. Dr. McGetchin made significant contributions to our understanding of impact cratering mechanics, and, appropriately, McGetchin crater is revealing new details of impact crater formation.
    rock.geosociety.org/net/docume
    planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Nom

    lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501

    #space #moon #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod

  6. 2026 September 23

    A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin
    * Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines
    * Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
    kerockcliffe.com/

    Explanation:
    A once-in-a-lifetime crater has appeared on the Moon! A comet or asteroid roughly the size of a humpback whale (approximately 10-20 meters, 30-60 feet) crashed into the Moon sometime between April and May of 2024. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), with its monthly monitoring of the Moon, captured today’s images of the lunar surface before and after the event. The resulting crater, named after Apollo-era lunar scientist McGetchin, is two soccer fields across. Craters of this size are only expected once every 132 years! Follow up thermal imaging revealed a large cold spot that surrounds the warm crater. Surface impacts will puff up the loose lunar sediment, or regolith, making it less dense and harder to retain heat. This event affected an area much larger than the visible crater, which will inform humanity’s understanding of surface impacts and the evolution of the Moon’s surface. It also reminds us all to be thankful for Earth's atmosphere.
    fisheries.noaa.gov/species/hum
    science.nasa.gov/mission/lro/
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240602.ht
    lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501
    rock.geosociety.org/net/docume
    ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001
    science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv
    assets.science.nasa.gov/conten
    science.nasa.gov/biological-ph
    science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250803.ht

    .. provided .gif shows two images:
    The before image shows a lunar surface sprinkled with small craters. The after image shows the same location but taken over by a large dark impression surrounding by a ridge that slopes down to the surface.

    The topographic map created from new NAC observations shows that the crater has an average diameter of 222 meters, a depth of 43 meters, wall slopes averaging 24° (but reaching nearly 40° in places), and a rim that rises 8 meters above the pre-existing surface on average. These dimensions closely match current models of crater formation based on observations of other lunar craters, as well as those on Earth and in laboratory simulations.

    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260923.ht

    #space #moon #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod

  7. 2026 September 23

    A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin
    * Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines
    * Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
    kerockcliffe.com/

    Explanation:
    A once-in-a-lifetime crater has appeared on the Moon! A comet or asteroid roughly the size of a humpback whale (approximately 10-20 meters, 30-60 feet) crashed into the Moon sometime between April and May of 2024. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), with its monthly monitoring of the Moon, captured today’s images of the lunar surface before and after the event. The resulting crater, named after Apollo-era lunar scientist McGetchin, is two soccer fields across. Craters of this size are only expected once every 132 years! Follow up thermal imaging revealed a large cold spot that surrounds the warm crater. Surface impacts will puff up the loose lunar sediment, or regolith, making it less dense and harder to retain heat. This event affected an area much larger than the visible crater, which will inform humanity’s understanding of surface impacts and the evolution of the Moon’s surface. It also reminds us all to be thankful for Earth's atmosphere.
    fisheries.noaa.gov/species/hum
    science.nasa.gov/mission/lro/
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240602.ht
    lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501
    rock.geosociety.org/net/docume
    ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001
    science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv
    assets.science.nasa.gov/conten
    science.nasa.gov/biological-ph
    science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250803.ht

    .. provided .gif shows two images:
    The before image shows a lunar surface sprinkled with small craters. The after image shows the same location but taken over by a large dark impression surrounding by a ridge that slopes down to the surface.

    The topographic map created from new NAC observations shows that the crater has an average diameter of 222 meters, a depth of 43 meters, wall slopes averaging 24° (but reaching nearly 40° in places), and a rim that rises 8 meters above the pre-existing surface on average. These dimensions closely match current models of crater formation based on observations of other lunar craters, as well as those on Earth and in laboratory simulations.

    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260923.ht

    #space #moon #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod

  8. 2026 September 23

    A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin
    * Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines
    * Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
    kerockcliffe.com/

    Explanation:
    A once-in-a-lifetime crater has appeared on the Moon! A comet or asteroid roughly the size of a humpback whale (approximately 10-20 meters, 30-60 feet) crashed into the Moon sometime between April and May of 2024. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), with its monthly monitoring of the Moon, captured today’s images of the lunar surface before and after the event. The resulting crater, named after Apollo-era lunar scientist McGetchin, is two soccer fields across. Craters of this size are only expected once every 132 years! Follow up thermal imaging revealed a large cold spot that surrounds the warm crater. Surface impacts will puff up the loose lunar sediment, or regolith, making it less dense and harder to retain heat. This event affected an area much larger than the visible crater, which will inform humanity’s understanding of surface impacts and the evolution of the Moon’s surface. It also reminds us all to be thankful for Earth's atmosphere.
    fisheries.noaa.gov/species/hum
    science.nasa.gov/mission/lro/
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240602.ht
    lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501
    rock.geosociety.org/net/docume
    ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001
    science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv
    assets.science.nasa.gov/conten
    science.nasa.gov/biological-ph
    science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250803.ht

    .. provided .gif shows two images:
    The before image shows a lunar surface sprinkled with small craters. The after image shows the same location but taken over by a large dark impression surrounding by a ridge that slopes down to the surface.

    The topographic map created from new NAC observations shows that the crater has an average diameter of 222 meters, a depth of 43 meters, wall slopes averaging 24° (but reaching nearly 40° in places), and a rim that rises 8 meters above the pre-existing surface on average. These dimensions closely match current models of crater formation based on observations of other lunar craters, as well as those on Earth and in laboratory simulations.

    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260923.ht

    #space #moon #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod

  9. 2026 September 23

    A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin
    * Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines
    * Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
    kerockcliffe.com/

    Explanation:
    A once-in-a-lifetime crater has appeared on the Moon! A comet or asteroid roughly the size of a humpback whale (approximately 10-20 meters, 30-60 feet) crashed into the Moon sometime between April and May of 2024. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), with its monthly monitoring of the Moon, captured today’s images of the lunar surface before and after the event. The resulting crater, named after Apollo-era lunar scientist McGetchin, is two soccer fields across. Craters of this size are only expected once every 132 years! Follow up thermal imaging revealed a large cold spot that surrounds the warm crater. Surface impacts will puff up the loose lunar sediment, or regolith, making it less dense and harder to retain heat. This event affected an area much larger than the visible crater, which will inform humanity’s understanding of surface impacts and the evolution of the Moon’s surface. It also reminds us all to be thankful for Earth's atmosphere.
    fisheries.noaa.gov/species/hum
    science.nasa.gov/mission/lro/
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240602.ht
    lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501
    rock.geosociety.org/net/docume
    ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001
    science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv
    assets.science.nasa.gov/conten
    science.nasa.gov/biological-ph
    science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250803.ht

    .. provided .gif shows two images:
    The before image shows a lunar surface sprinkled with small craters. The after image shows the same location but taken over by a large dark impression surrounding by a ridge that slopes down to the surface.

    The topographic map created from new NAC observations shows that the crater has an average diameter of 222 meters, a depth of 43 meters, wall slopes averaging 24° (but reaching nearly 40° in places), and a rim that rises 8 meters above the pre-existing surface on average. These dimensions closely match current models of crater formation based on observations of other lunar craters, as well as those on Earth and in laboratory simulations.

    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260923.ht

    #space #moon #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod

  10. 2026 September 23

    A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin
    * Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines
    * Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
    kerockcliffe.com/

    Explanation:
    A once-in-a-lifetime crater has appeared on the Moon! A comet or asteroid roughly the size of a humpback whale (approximately 10-20 meters, 30-60 feet) crashed into the Moon sometime between April and May of 2024. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), with its monthly monitoring of the Moon, captured today’s images of the lunar surface before and after the event. The resulting crater, named after Apollo-era lunar scientist McGetchin, is two soccer fields across. Craters of this size are only expected once every 132 years! Follow up thermal imaging revealed a large cold spot that surrounds the warm crater. Surface impacts will puff up the loose lunar sediment, or regolith, making it less dense and harder to retain heat. This event affected an area much larger than the visible crater, which will inform humanity’s understanding of surface impacts and the evolution of the Moon’s surface. It also reminds us all to be thankful for Earth's atmosphere.
    fisheries.noaa.gov/species/hum
    science.nasa.gov/mission/lro/
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240602.ht
    lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501
    rock.geosociety.org/net/docume
    ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001
    science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv
    assets.science.nasa.gov/conten
    science.nasa.gov/biological-ph
    science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250803.ht

    .. provided .gif shows two images:
    The before image shows a lunar surface sprinkled with small craters. The after image shows the same location but taken over by a large dark impression surrounding by a ridge that slopes down to the surface.

    The topographic map created from new NAC observations shows that the crater has an average diameter of 222 meters, a depth of 43 meters, wall slopes averaging 24° (but reaching nearly 40° in places), and a rim that rises 8 meters above the pre-existing surface on average. These dimensions closely match current models of crater formation based on observations of other lunar craters, as well as those on Earth and in laboratory simulations.

    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260923.ht

    #space #moon #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod

  11. This deep field view showcases a striking contrast between two distinct open star clusters within the constellation Gemini. Located approximately 2,800 light-years away, M35 is a relatively young cluster characterized by bright blue stars and an age of roughly 150 million years. In contrast, the more compact NGC 2158 sits much further at 11,000 light-years and is ten times older, appearing smaller and more yellow as its celestial population has evolved over billions of years. Studying such pairs allows astronomers to better understand galactic structural evolution and the lifecycle of stellar populations at varying distances from Earth. #Astronomy #Astrophysics #NASA #Stargazing

    #astronomy #astrophysics #nasa

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  12. This composite image of a partial lunar eclipse illustrates the Earths penumbral and umbral shadows. Captured in November 2021, the visual data highlights the Rayleigh scattering phenomenon, where the Earths atmosphere filters shorter wavelengths and refracts longer red wavelengths into the geometric shadow. These observations provide critical insights into celestial mechanics and the atmospheric composition of our planet during syzygy events.

    #astronomy #space #astrophysics

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  13. europesays.com/cz/221939/ S těžištěm Země se něco děje. NASA zkoumá výkyvy, které mohou ovlivnit navigaci – Aktuálně.cz #NASA #Svět #World #WorldNews #Země

  14. In 📆 2014, #NASA's commercial crew program selected #SpaceX and #Boeing to ferry astronauts to the #ISS.

    Though NASA's original goal was for commercial vehicles to fly in 2015, Congress initially underfunded the program, delaying 🥱 the first flights until 📆 2017. Further technical problems for both SpaceX and Boeing pushed the first crewed launches to 📆 2020 for SpaceX and to at least 2021 for Boeing* planetary.org/articles/why-nas

    *2021 article, 2024 : latimes.com/business/story/202

    #HumanSpaceflight

  15. In 📆 2014, #NASA's commercial crew program selected #SpaceX and #Boeing to ferry astronauts to the #ISS.

    Though NASA's original goal was for commercial vehicles to fly in 2015, Congress initially underfunded the program, delaying 🥱 the first flights until 📆 2017. Further technical problems for both SpaceX and Boeing pushed the first crewed launches to 📆 2020 for SpaceX and to at least 2021 for Boeing* planetary.org/articles/why-nas

    *2021 article, 2024 : latimes.com/business/story/202

    #HumanSpaceflight

  16. In 📆 2014, #NASA's commercial crew program selected #SpaceX and #Boeing to ferry astronauts to the #ISS.

    Though NASA's original goal was for commercial vehicles to fly in 2015, Congress initially underfunded the program, delaying 🥱 the first flights until 📆 2017. Further technical problems for both SpaceX and Boeing pushed the first crewed launches to 📆 2020 for SpaceX and to at least 2021 for Boeing* planetary.org/articles/why-nas

    *2021 article, 2024 : latimes.com/business/story/202

    #HumanSpaceflight

  17. In 📆 2014, #NASA's commercial crew program selected #SpaceX and #Boeing to ferry astronauts to the #ISS.

    Though NASA's original goal was for commercial vehicles to fly in 2015, Congress initially underfunded the program, delaying 🥱 the first flights until 📆 2017. Further technical problems for both SpaceX and Boeing pushed the first crewed launches to 📆 2020 for SpaceX and to at least 2021 for Boeing* planetary.org/articles/why-nas

    *2021 article, 2024 : latimes.com/business/story/202

    #HumanSpaceflight

  18. In 📆 2014, #NASA's commercial crew program selected #SpaceX and #Boeing to ferry astronauts to the #ISS.

    Though NASA's original goal was for commercial vehicles to fly in 2015, Congress initially underfunded the program, delaying 🥱 the first flights until 📆 2017. Further technical problems for both SpaceX and Boeing pushed the first crewed launches to 📆 2020 for SpaceX and to at least 2021 for Boeing* planetary.org/articles/why-nas

    *2021 article, 2024 : latimes.com/business/story/202

    #HumanSpaceflight

  19. Voyager 1 is 25.73 billion km/15.99 billion miles away from Earth and will reach 1 light-day from Earth in 57 days, 18 hours: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste

    Voyager 2 is 21.52 billion km/13.37 billion miles away from Earth: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste

    #Voyager1 #Voyager2 #voyager #nasa #space

  20. Voyager 1 is 25.73 billion km/15.99 billion miles away from Earth and will reach 1 light-day from Earth in 57 days, 18 hours: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste

    Voyager 2 is 21.52 billion km/13.37 billion miles away from Earth: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste

    #Voyager1 #Voyager2 #voyager #nasa #space

  21. Voyager 1 is 25.73 billion km/15.99 billion miles away from Earth and will reach 1 light-day from Earth in 57 days, 18 hours: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste

    Voyager 2 is 21.52 billion km/13.37 billion miles away from Earth: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste

    #Voyager1 #Voyager2 #voyager #nasa #space

  22. Voyager 1 is 25.73 billion km/15.99 billion miles away from Earth and will reach 1 light-day from Earth in 57 days, 18 hours: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste

    Voyager 2 is 21.52 billion km/13.37 billion miles away from Earth: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste

    #Voyager1 #Voyager2 #voyager #nasa #space

  23. Voyager 1 is 25.73 billion km/15.99 billion miles away from Earth and will reach 1 light-day from Earth in 57 days, 18 hours: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste

    Voyager 2 is 21.52 billion km/13.37 billion miles away from Earth: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste

    #Voyager1 #Voyager2 #voyager #nasa #space

  24. Why Some Creatures While Others Without a : Medium

    Has already found on ? : Sci Am

    40,000-year-old provide to how flourished : Nature

    Latest

    knowledgezone.co.in/resources/

  25. Why Some Creatures #Fossilize While Others #Vanish Without a #Trace : Medium

    Has #NASA already found #Life on #Mars? : Sci Am

    40,000-year-old #Bird #Carvings provide #Clues to how #IceAge #Humans flourished : Nature

    Latest #KnowledgeLinks

    knowledgezone.co.in/resources/

  26. Why Some Creatures #Fossilize While Others #Vanish Without a #Trace : Medium

    Has #NASA already found #Life on #Mars? : Sci Am

    40,000-year-old #Bird #Carvings provide #Clues to how #IceAge #Humans flourished : Nature

    Latest #KnowledgeLinks

    knowledgezone.co.in/resources/

  27. Why Some Creatures #Fossilize While Others #Vanish Without a #Trace : Medium

    Has #NASA already found #Life on #Mars? : Sci Am

    40,000-year-old #Bird #Carvings provide #Clues to how #IceAge #Humans flourished : Nature

    Latest #KnowledgeLinks

    knowledgezone.co.in/resources/

  28. Why Some Creatures #Fossilize While Others #Vanish Without a #Trace : Medium

    Has #NASA already found #Life on #Mars? : Sci Am

    40,000-year-old #Bird #Carvings provide #Clues to how #IceAge #Humans flourished : Nature

    Latest #KnowledgeLinks

    knowledgezone.co.in/resources/

  29. 🌠 Space Image of the Day: Cocoon Nebula Wide Field

    📷 Piotr Czerski
    🗓️ 2026-09-21

    When does a nebula look like a comet? In this crowded starfield covering over two degrees within the high-flying constellation of the Swan (Cygnus), the eye is drawn to t...

    #NASA #APOD #Space #Astronomy #Science

  30. Astronomers Expected More Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune – Webb Found Something Else

    This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO), a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #astronomy #HubbleSpaceTelescope #jameswebbspacetelescope #NASA #Science #solarsystem #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/777508/