- Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
This is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972, including transcripts, astronaut commentaries, and multimedia.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Are Apollo Moon Photos Fake?
Ian Williams Goddard has taken the time to replicate all the photographic 'anomalies' with little models showing how they're not anomalies at all. Highly recommended.
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/iangoddard/moon01.htm
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Moon
Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/moon.html
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- Full Moon Names
The Harvest Moon is always the full Moon closest to the autumnal equinox. If the Harvest Moon occurs in October, the September full Moon is usually called the Corn Moon. Source: The Old Farmer's Almanac. The names of the other full moons are also given.
http://www.santacruzpl.org/readyref/files/d-f/fullmn.shtml
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Honeymoon
What is the origin of the Honeymoon tradition?
http://www.hudsonvalleyweddings.com/guide/honey.htm
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Lunar Eclipses
During a total lunar eclipse the Moon takes on a dark red color because it is being lighted slightly by sunlight passing through the Earth's atmosphere and this light has the blue component preferentially scattered out, leaving faint reddish light to illuminate the Moon during the eclipse.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/eclipses_lunar.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Lunar Geology
Lunar Geology is the study of the moons crust, rocks, strata, etc. and tends to cover two broad areas of study; Maria (and/or Basins) and Highlands.
http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/printerready/science/geologys.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Lunar Maps
Click on the images to identify crates and maria.
http://www.moon-phases.com/moon-map/moon-map-index.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Lunar Maria
This site shows a map of the major lunar maria. These maria range from over 200 km to about 1200 km in size.
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/lunar/mare/mlm.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Missions to the Moon
Links to the Apollo Project, Artemis Project, Clementine,
Lunar Orbiter, Lunar Prospector, Surveyor, Ranger Experiments, and
Soviet Experiments.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Space/Exploration/Missions/Moon/
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- Moon - The Nine Planets
The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/luna.html
(Added: Sun Oct 06 2002)
- Moon Fact Sheet
Contains the mass, volume, escape velocity, orbital elements, spin rate, and many other parameters.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html
(Added: Sun Oct 06 2002)
- Moon Hoax?
This site examines the theories that suggest the NASA Apollo moon landings were faked. It hopes to prove, without any doubt, that these theories are wrong and a combination of a poor understanding of basic science and a desire to make a fast buck.
http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- Orbit and Phases of the Moon
The orbit of the Moon is very nearly circular (eccentricity ~ 0.05) with a mean separation from the Earth of about 384,000 km, which is about 60 Earth radii. The plane of the orbit is tilted about 5 degrees with respect to the ecliptic plane. The Moon appears to go through a complete set of phases as viewed from the Earth because of its motion around the Earth, as illustrated in the figure on this web page.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/moonorbit.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Solar Eclipses
One consequence of the Moon's orbit about the Earth is that the Moon can shadow the Sun's light as viewed from the Earth, or the Moon can pass through the shadow cast by the Earth.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/eclipses.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Surface Features of the Moon
The surface of the Moon has two hemispheres with rather asymmetric properties; as a consequence the nature of the Lunar surface that we can see from the Earth is substantially different from the surface that is always hidden from the Earth. View the near side, the farside and the Maria.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/moon/moon_surface.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- The Apollo Program
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969.
http://www.nasm.edu/apollo/AS11/a11.htm
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- The Moon's Interior
Before the Apollo missions we knew almost nothing about the interior of the Moon. The Apollo missions left seismometers on the lunar surface that have allowed us to deduce the general features of the Lunar interior by studying the seismic waves generated by "moonquakes" and occasional meteor impacts.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/moon/moon_interior.html
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- Theories of Formation for the Moon
An extremely important question is that of how the Moon was formed and came to have its present orbit around the Earth. There are five serious theories.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/moon/moon_formation.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Tidal Coupling in the Earth-Moon System
The fact that the rotational period of the Moon and the orbital period of the Earth-Moon system are of the same length is not an accident.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/moon/tidal.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Tides
The tides at a given place in the Earth's oceans occur about an hour later each day. Since the Moon passes overhead about an hour later each day, it was long suspected that the Moon was associated with tides. Newton's Law of Gravitation provided a quantitative understanding of that association.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/tides.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Volcanism on the Moon
The Moon has no large volcanoes like Hawaii or Mount St. Helens. However, vast plains of basaltic lavas cover much of the lunar surface.
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/lunar/Overview.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
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