Space is hard, lunar landings are even harder.
Only 4 of 13 robotic lander missions since 2019 have been successful, as shown in the table below.
Note that the ispace Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander ended with a hard landing in April 2023.
Sending best wishes to RESILIENCE for a successful landing.
After landing, the ispace RESILIENCE lander will have about 14 earth days (one lunar day) to complete its mission, before night falls, bringing darkness and brutally cold temperatures.
Similar to other recent robotic landers, RESILIENCE is powered by solar cells and will not have sufficient energy storage to survive the lunar night.
#Moon #Space #MoonLanding #HAKUTO @ispace
5/n
The ispace HAKUTO-R RESILIENCE landing site is in Mare Frigoris or the "Sea of Cold, at 60.5°N 4.6°E, close to the north polar region on the near side of the moon.
The ispace Hakuto-R M2 landing webcast will begin at 2:10 p.m. EDT (18:10 UTC).
Landing is scheduled for 3:17 p.m. EDT (19:17 UTC).
This photo is insane. Dude went to Alaska to capture the #eclipse and the Northern Lights appeared behind it.
(Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHTysJtvv4Q/?igsh=YzZ0aWMxYjlzaWF4)
#Checklist for the #Night of the #KrononautMoon
when #TimeTravelers are invited to make #Contact
The next #TotalLunarEclipse is coming our way on 2025 Mar 14 #UTC 07:00. ~ 3 months from now. #Observe the #Moon & #Stars that night. #Times are flexible. #Connect with the #Cosmos & with your #Past & #Future #Selves. Click & share exabytes of #Photos with @KronoMoonPhotos. #Experience a #Moment of authenticity & meaning, wherever you are.
Time Travel: obscure & cryptic little ad in Artforum Magazine from 45 years ago proves more relevant today than back in 1980.
#Scientific #research, #spiritual #quest, or #conceptual #art, it's an invitation to make contact with Time Travelers — or Visitors from the Future(s) — at what some call a landing reception. Today, the ongoing work of The Krononaut Moon Project continues at full steam on #Mastodon & #Fediverse.
The historic ad appeared in the magazine's 1980 Jan issue, announcing a gathering to occur two years later on 1982 Mar 09, inviting #Krononauts or #TimeTravelers to beam down to #Baltimore #MD #US. The hundreds of attendees at the night's festivities were documented by a #NYTimes #newspaper reporter. Later, others would organize their own inter-dimensional meet-ups in #Perth #AU, #MIT #US, and #Cambridge #UK. (All were landing receptions of type-1.0. See links below & on our other @KronoMoon pages for details.)
The Artforum ad can be found in #library collections and on the "Time Travel" page of #Wikipedia.
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Absence_of_time_travelers_from_the_future https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WelcomeKrononauts_Artforum_Jan1980_p.90_800x600.png
Baltimore's event was timed for a full #Moon & a rare #planetary alignment in 1982, known to #astronomers as a #syzygy. It was the prototype for today's more evolved type-2.0 "experimentations, observations & celebrations" taking place under the shadow of the #TotalLunarEclipse — the night of the #KrononautMoon. There will be 3 #TLEclipses in 2025 & 2026, with the next one coming up on 2025 Mar 14 #UTC 07:00, barely months away.
❛❛ On the Night of the Total Lunar Eclipse,
Time Travelers descend in their space-time ships. ❜❜
All sentient beings are welcome to join us in connecting with the #cosmos, the #multiverse, and your #past & #future #selves. Even folks who gripe that this is utter absurdity are invited (despite the #thinking of a few enlightened #quantum #physicists). Or, you might choose to spend a peaceful evening by yourself under the #stars, on a #sacred #mountaintop, at the #beach, or in your own #backyard. The more diverse are these experimental approaches, the greater the likelihood of meaningful contact. Or, you could bring along your friends & colleagues, your grandparents & grandkids, your #CatsOfMastodon & #DogsOfMastodon (and don't forget a #camera for lots of @KronoMoonPhotos). Watch the skies for #UFOs, #UAP, or a #signal from the #beyond. Who can know who might show up? The #fullMoon will be shining bright on that night, before it goes dark, and then shines bright again, all in an hour or so. Participants will be contributing to the greater body of Community Time Travel Research. Become a fellow #MoonWatcher on 2025 March 14, wherever you are.
Krononauts in the #NYTimes https://NYTimes.com/1982/03/11/us/the-night-the-planets-were-aligned-with-baltimore-lunacy.html
Krononauts podcast on Pushkin.fm & TheLastArchive.com https://Pushkin.fm/podcasts/the-last-archive/the-krononauts
Krononauts on Medium.com & @WriteUndertheMoon https://Medium.com/write-under-the-moon/on-the-night-of-the-total-lunar-eclipse-6eec94750f4e
2024-11-14T19:04:40+09:00:00
月齢12.9 地心距離0.9368142 (360111km) 輝面率0.968
今月最も地球に近付いた月
#月 #天体観測 #moon #photography #fedibird
2024-06-30T04:33:35+09:00:00
月齢23.3 地心距離0.9645901 (370788km) 輝面率0.398
おはようございます
彼は誰時、有明の月です 
#月 #天体観測 #moon #photography #fedibird
Fun fact: #Grafana helped Japan become the 5th country to land on the #moon!
Watch the full talk to find out how. Their dashboards and use case are truly out of this world 
https://youtu.be/CpHQfwFPvw8
2024-03-30T01:48:35+09:00:00
月齢19.3 地心距離1.0274104 (394937km) 輝面率0.829
熟田津（にきたつ）に船乗りせむと月待てば潮（しほ）もかなひぬ今は漕ぎ出でな
熟田津尓 船乗世武登 月待者 潮毛可奈比沼 今者許藝乞菜
熟田津で船に乗り込もうと月の出を待っていると、潮も、船出にちょうどよくなってきた。さあ、今こそ漕ぎ出そう。
額田王（ぬかたのおほきみ） 萬葉集 巻第一（雑歌）8
「万葉集（一）」（岩波文庫、2013）
https://www.iwanami.co.jp/book/b245983.html
「原文 万葉集（上）」（岩波文庫、2015）
https://www.iwanami.co.jp/book/b245990.html
#月 #天体観測 #moon #photography #fedibird
Last night's image of the #moon.
Out of the 82 frames taken, only 11 made it into the final image.
Next try tonight, with fully charged batteries 
Don’t fuck with moon dust. No seriously, do not fuck with moon dust.
Absent any moisture or atmosphere, millennia of asteroid impacts have turned lunar regolith (soil) into a fine powder of razor sharp, glass-like particles. What’s more, the solar wind imparts an electric charge on the dust, causing it to cling to any and every surface it touches through static electricity. On earth, sand tends to get smoother over time as wind and water tumble the grains about, eroding their sharpness. Not so on the moon – lunar dust is sharp and deadly. This is Not A Good Time if you’re an explorer looking to visit our celestial neighbor.
During Apollo, the astronauts faced a plethora of unexpected issues caused by dust. It clung to spacesuits and darkened them enough that exposure to sunlight overheated the life support systems. Dust got in suit joints and on suit visors, damaging them. It ate away layers of boot lining. It covered cameras. Upon returning to the cabin, astronauts attempting to brush it off damaged their suit fabric and sent the dust airborne, where it remained suspended in the air due to low gravity.
Inhaling moon dust causes mucus membranes to swell; every Apollo astronaut who stepped foot on the moon reported symptoms of “Lunar Hay Fever.” Sneezing, congestion, and a “smell of burnt gunpowder” took days to subside. Later Apollo missions even sent a special dust brush with the team to help clean each other and equipment. We don’t know exactly how dangerous the stuff is, but lunar regolith simulants suggest it might destroy lung and brain cells with long-term exposure. 1
In fact the dust is so nasty that it destroyed the vacuum seals of sample return containers. We no longer have any accurate samples of lunar dust, “Every sample brought back from the moon has been contaminated by Earth’s air and humidity […] The chemical and electrostatic properties of the soil no longer match what future astronauts will encounter on the moon.” 2
Whats worse, the solar-charged dust gets thrown up off the moon’s surface via electrostatic forces. The moon doesn’t technically have an atmosphere, but it does have a thin cloud of sharp dust itching to cling to anything it can find.
And it probably isn’t just the moon. “A 2005 NASA study listed 20 risks that required further study before humans should commit to a human Mars expedition, and ranked "dust" as the number one challenge.” 3
The coolest solution I’ve heard about in next-gen spacesuit design is a mesh of woven wires layered into the suit. When activated, the wire mesh would form an anti-static electric field that repels dust. Quite literally a force field. 4
#astronomy #apollo #moon #lunardust
Export versions of the #moon #photos I took this afternoon and evening. Included some pictures I took from my phone of my computer screen (lol) showing the zoomed-in detail in #Lightroom.
Absolutely incredible detail; Very little atmospheric interference. I think I'm now hitting the optical limitations of the lens and teleconverter. I won't be able to get photos like this once the late Spring and Summer months come as there will be too much atmospheric and thermal interference. #photography #astrophotography #moonphotography #lunarphotography #Nikon
RE: https://soc0.outrnat.nl/notes/9pq6f42jqs
@Gargron instant #rfc600 flashback •g• #Plato to the #Moon ;) https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc600.txt 
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange solutions require as much varied and relevant information as possible.
This story is of a daunting, dangerous, and unique #scientific effort to help determine just how dire our extremely dire situation may be.
"#Scientists have less material from under the #IceSheet [covering #Greenland] than they do from the surface of the #moon."
Scene from the 1997 Windows game Moon Child. I co-designed the game and made all graphics. 
The game and more free downloads can be found here:
つきはいざよいじゅうろくや。
オヤスミセカイ。
ブルームーン
昨夜のお月さま♪
今月もよろしくお願いします(╹◡╹)
