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Seattle-based #Interlune was created to seek out and harvest #helium3 and other resources on the #moon - but now it's also aiming to help #NASA build base camps and other infrastructure on the lunar surface. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/interlune-excavator-helium-3-moon-construction/ #Space #Artemis

Prototype excavator being tested on a rocky patch of land

GeekWire

Interlune digs into the development of an excavator for helium-3 and construction projects on the moon

Interlune says it's working on a $150,000 NASA contract to develop the technology for digging trenches and doing excavation on the moon.

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Anton Gorlin

@antongorlin@mastodon.art · 3 weeks ago

Where Silence Glows
Pure magic as the great red moon quietly rises. The sea greets it with a brief unrest, then gently settles again. You stand there, silent, witnessing the moment as the night takes reign.

#sea #seascape #meer #seaWednesday #meerMittwoch #landscape #landscapePhotography #nature #moon #night #art #MastoArt

night seascape with a bright Moon in the top middle above a dark rocky island. Then there is a bright orange moon trail. Foreground has a tip of a basalt columns rocky area with some orange highlights from the moonlight.

Anton Gorlin

@antongorlin@mastodon.art · 3 weeks ago

#sea #seascape #meer #seaWednesday #meerMittwoch #landscape #landscapePhotography #nature #moon #night #art #MastoArt

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Mina

@mina@berlin.social · 3 weeks ago

Have you always be fascinated by space and its exploration?

Do you find stories about the Apollo program deeply inspiring?

Then you and me are on the same page.

So: Do also you find the knowledge that in the next few months there will be a crewed moon flyby just not interesting or inspiring at all?

I sincerely don't see what this is for, aside from filling the contractors' companies' pockets at the expense of actual research.

Is it my age or is this just pointless?

#Space #Moon #Artemis

A high resolution black and white picture of the moon.

Mina

@mina@berlin.social · 3 weeks ago

Have you always be fascinated by space and its exploration?

Do you find stories about the Apollo program deeply inspiring?

Then you and me are on the same page.

So: Do also you find the knowledge that in the next few months there will be a crewed moon flyby just not interesting or inspiring at all?

I sincerely don't see what this is for, aside from filling the contractors' companies' pockets at the expense of actual research.

Is it my age or is this just pointless?

#Space #Moon #Artemis

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atomicker

@atomicker@mstdn.ca · 3 weeks ago

Title: Remains of the Checkpoint at Shitomae (1956)

Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260202_08/ #ShinHanga #SosakuHanga #Art #Showa #KasamatsuShiro #Winter #Snow #Moon #FullMoon #Japan

A full moon shines down out of a starless night sky, illuminating a pair of rustic wooden buildings standing near a tall wiry pine tree. In the foreground, the stumps of a few dozen wooden posts poke up through the snow, all that remains of some lost structure. Beyond, the pine tree dominates the center of the image, its branches heavy with snow. A figure carrying a bucket is approaching the nearest building; warm lights shine in the windows of the second building further on. A layer of fresh snow covers everything.

atomicker

@atomicker@mstdn.ca · 3 weeks ago

Title: Remains of the Checkpoint at Shitomae (1956)

Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260202_08/ #ShinHanga #SosakuHanga #Art #Showa #KasamatsuShiro #Winter #Snow #Moon #FullMoon #Japan

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Sabine

@canyakker@mas.to · 3 weeks ago

The full moon (Snow Moon) rising at supper time.
The Ojibwe call it the Bear Moon because around this time of year the bear cubs are being born in the winter dens.

#moon #bears

Evening sky with a full moon rising behind the bare branches of a birch tree.

Sabine

@canyakker@mas.to · 3 weeks ago

The full moon (Snow Moon) rising at supper time.
The Ojibwe call it the Bear Moon because around this time of year the bear cubs are being born in the winter dens.

#moon #bears

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unfa🇺🇦

@unfa@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

Here's a picture I've taken today.

Shot with Panasonic Lumix GH5 + "default" zoom 12-60 lens + old soviet binoculars.
#photography #moon #sky

Moon face with a bit of unusual green chromatic aberration artifact.

unfa🇺🇦

@unfa@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

Here's a picture I've taken today.

Shot with Panasonic Lumix GH5 + "default" zoom 12-60 lens + old soviet binoculars.
#photography #moon #sky

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Jason Baluyut

@bluejay@ohai.social · 3 weeks ago

Something small transited the moon as I was looking through my telescope last night, crossing in a straight line in a southwesterly direction (relative to the moon’s face). Too distant to be a plane, I think. A Starlink satellite? The ISS? Taken on January 31 at 5:55pm in Brooklyn. Would be interesting to find out what it was.

#photography #astrophotography #moon #fullmoon #satellites #satellite

A closeup of the full moon, with crater details visible, its western and southern areas cropped out of frame. Near the eastern curve is a small black speck, which stands out against the brighter lunar surface.

Shot on an iPhone 15 attached to a Celestron 130mm reflector telescope. — A closeup of the full moon, with crater details visible, its western and southern areas cropped out of frame. Near the eastern curve is a small black speck, which stands out against the brighter lunar surface. Shot on an iPhone 15 attached to a Celestron 130mm reflector telescope.

Jason Baluyut

@bluejay@ohai.social · 3 weeks ago

#photography #astrophotography #moon #fullmoon #satellites #satellite

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 3 weeks ago

🌙 Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has a 4% Chance of Hitting the Moon. Here’s Why That’s a Scientific Goldmine.

｢ On December 22nd, 2032, Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of actually striking the Moon. If it does, it will release enough energy to be the equivalent of smacking our nearest neighbor with a medium-sized thermonuclear weapon. It would be 6 orders of magnitude more powerful than the last major impact on the Moon, which happened back in 2013 and was caused by a much smaller meteoroid ｣