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A lithograph of the hoax's "ruby amphitheater", as printed in The Sun. The "Great Moon Hoax", also known as the "Great Moon Hoax of 1835" was a series of six articles published in The Sun (a New York newspaper), beginning on August 25, 1835, about the supposed discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
Photograph of the far side of the Moon, with Mare Orientale (center left) and the mare of the crater Apollo (top left) being visible, taken by Orion spacecraft during the Artemis 1 mission. The far side of the Moon is the lunar hemisphere that always faces away from Earth, opposite to the near side, because of synchronous rotation in the Moon's ...
The Compton–Belkovich Thorium Anomaly is a volcanic complex on the far side of the Moon. [1] It was found by a gamma-ray spectrometer in 1998 and is an area of concentrated thorium, a 'fertile' element. [1][2] Lunar rock samples from the Apollo missions reveal that most lunar volcanism occurred around 3 to 4 billion years ago, but this ...
The South Pole–Aitken basin (SPA Basin, / ˈeɪtkɪn /) is an immense impact crater on the far side of the Moon. At roughly 2,500 km (1,600 mi) in diameter and between 6.2 and 8.2 km (3.9–5.1 mi) deep, it is one of the largest known impact craters in the Solar System. It is the largest, oldest, and deepest basin recognized on the Moon. [1]
June 1, 2024 at 9:21 PM. By Joey Roulette and Joe Brock. SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday, a landmark mission aiming to retrieve the ...
The lunar geological timescale (or selenological timescale) divides the history of Earth 's Moon into five generally recognized periods: the Copernican, Eratosthenian, Imbrian (Late and Early epochs), Nectarian, and Pre-Nectarian. The boundaries of this time scale are related to large impact events that have modified the lunar surface, changes ...
The near side of the Moon, with major maria and craters labeled. The lunar maria (/ ˈmæri.ə / MARR-ee-ə; sg. mare / ˈmɑːreɪ, - i / MAR-ay, MAR-ee) [1] are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth 's Moon, formed by lava flowing into ancient impact basins. They were dubbed maria (Latin for 'seas') by early astronomers who mistook them for ...
The lunar south pole is located on the center of the polar Antarctic Circle (80°S to 90°S). [2][4] (The axis spin is 88.5 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic.) The lunar south pole has shifted 5.5 degrees from its original position billions of years ago. [5] This shift has [6] changed the rotational axis of the Moon, allowing sunlight to ...