Earth's Moon Archives | Search Articles | Astronomy Trek Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:59:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 How Do Moon Phases Work? https://www.astronomytrek.com/moon-phases-explained/ Thu, 09 May 2024 11:57:38 +0000 https://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=18174 The Sun always illuminates roughly half of the Moon. So why don’t we always see a half Moon? The answer is that how much of that illuminated half we can see changes as the Moon ...

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]]> 100m Liquid Telescope To Be Placed On The Moon https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/telescope-on-the-moon/ Sun, 06 Dec 2020 15:44:50 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=14309 An international team of astronomers want to build a 100 meter in diameter telescope on the Moon. No this is not the plot of some sci-fi movie, it is very much something that could happen ...

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]]> Water Discovered on Sunlit Surface of the Moon https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/water-on-moon-sunlit-surface/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 12:56:24 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=14299 NASA’s flying SOFIA telescope has confirmed the presence of water on the Moon’s sunlit surface. This proves that water is not just present in the shadowy craters, but could be all over the lunar surface. ...

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]]> Chinese Land Rover On Dark Side Of Moon https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/chinese-change-4-mission-moon/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/chinese-change-4-mission-moon/#respond Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:23:12 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=12927 The image above shows the culmination of the Chinese space agency’s Chang’e 4 mission to the dark side of the Moon. In the photo, the mission’s Jade Rabbit 2 lunar rover can be seen rolling ...

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]]> https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/chinese-change-4-mission-moon/feed/ 0 Earth’s Water Supply Survived Moon-Forming Impact https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/earths-water-supply-survived-moon-forming-impact/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/earths-water-supply-survived-moon-forming-impact/#respond Tue, 01 May 2018 16:41:28 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=12619 The image above shows an artist’s impression of the impact between Earth and a Mars-sized object in an event that is widely accepted as the mechanism that formed Earth’s Moon only about 100 million years ...

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]]> https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/earths-water-supply-survived-moon-forming-impact/feed/ 0 10 Interesting Facts About the Apollo Missions https://www.astronomytrek.com/10-interesting-facts-about-the-apollo-missions/ Fri, 03 Nov 2017 14:54:10 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=11987 NASA’s Apollo program took humans to the Moon for the first time, but the famous Apollo 11 landing was only one part of an extraordinary program of space exploration that ran throughout the 1960s and ...

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]]> Top Theories on How the Moon Formed https://www.astronomytrek.com/top-theories-on-how-the-moon-formed/ Mon, 29 May 2017 19:41:42 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=10839 The Moon has been a constant source of wonder and fascination throughout mankind’s’ history, but despite being located a mere 238,900 miles or 1.28 light-seconds away, we know less about it and how it came ...

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]]> Top 10 Features on the Moon for Stargazers https://www.astronomytrek.com/top-10-features-on-the-moon-for-stargazers/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:05:20 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=10261 Look at the Moon through binoculars or a telescope and you’ll find much more than craters. Its surface is covered with vast dark plains, rugged highlands, mountains, impact basins, valleys, rilles and bright rays of ...

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]]> Moon Village an Essential Part of a Space Exploration Strategy https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/moon-village-an-essential-part-of-a-space-exploration-strategy/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 13:26:16 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=8251 The old proverb states that “it takes a village to raise a child”, but according to the European Space Agency (ESA) it will also take one to ensure the future of space exploration. In an ...

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]]> Russia and Europe Aim To Build Base On Dark Side Of The Moon https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/russia-and-europe-aim-to-build-base-on-dark-side-of-the-moon/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/russia-and-europe-aim-to-build-base-on-dark-side-of-the-moon/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:34:50 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=6723 The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmo) have announced a joint mission to the moon in 2020, whose primary goal will be to explore the South Pole region, and discover whether ...

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