Tagged: Moon

4:02pm

Wed February 1, 2012
NPR Science

New video sheds more light on dark side of the moon

Originally published on Wed February 1, 2012 3:35 pm

NASA/JPL-Caltech

New video from NASA gives us a fresh view of the far side of the moon (or the technically incorrect but way cooler sounding "dark side").

It's from NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft.

And just for the record, some news outlets have looked at the space agency's headline — "NASA Mission Returns First Video From Moon's Far Side" — and are reporting that this is the first time we've seen images from there. That's not correct. What NASA seems to have tried to say is that this is the first video of the far side from this mission.

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4:00am

Thu July 7, 2011
Record Bin Roulette

There's a moon in the sky - but have we been there? Really?

Wish you were here.
e-strategyblog.com / Flickr

One small step for man ... and one giant leap of believability. As many as 25% of us Earthlings think the moon landings were a big fake, staged by Stanley Kubrick on a Hollywood sound stage.

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