MetaFilter posts tagged with moons

Spirit photographs Phobos and Deimos

brownpau — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:33:01 -0800

Two Moons Passing in the Night. Mars rover Spirit took these sequential photos of Martian moons Phobos and Deimos passing overhead in the night sky. Those rovers are still going strong!

KRAZY KAT

y2karl — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:40:10 -0800

T h e r e i s a h e p p y l e n d , f u r , f u r a -w a -a -a y - S u r e a s m o o n s i s c h e e s e s

Waxing Gibbous

Irontom — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 05:30:32 -0800

Names of the Full Moons We are now 4 days past the Snow Moon, and this year it's easy to see (at least here in northern Virginia) why it was so named. It was also called the Hunger Moon... [more inside]

Ringed Uranus with its moons

y2karl — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 21:13:09 -0800

Ringed Uranus with its moons : I love it that one moon is named Puck. ( courtesy Robot Wisdom)

KirkJobSluder — Sun, 03 Nov 2002 06:54:26 -0800

Swan song for a great explorer. Tomorow, the Galileo explorer will make a flyby of Jovian moon Amalthea ending pehaps the geatest unmanned mission in NASA history. Galileo telemetry may not survive the flyby having already receieved much more radiation than it was designed for. Even if it does survive, this will be its final orbit scheduled to crash into Jupiter in September of next year. In spite of antenna difficulties, the spacecraft returned many beautiful images of Jupiter's moons, along with coverage of the Shoemaker-Levy collision and the first atmospheric probe to decend into Jupiter's weather.

skallas — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:17:12 -0800

Interesting hypothesis that Europa's seas are swimming with bacteria. Preliminary results show that all three species, the ordinary gut bacteria Escherichia coli, and extremophiles Deinococcus radiodurans and Sulfolobus shibatae, are just as good at explaining Europa's IR spectrum as the [magnesium sulphate] salts.

donkeysuck — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:08:08 -0800

Once in a blue moon. Not only will the full moon on Halloween be the first in 40(i think) and the last for another 19 years, it is also a 'blue moon' which means that the moon is full twice in the same month. Notwithstanding any MeFi visitors from Detroit, are you feeling strange yet?

skallas — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 18:32:02 -0800

NASA proposes visit to Saturn's moons via blimp. Native Titans debunk UFO as weather balloon. More space balloons here. (via robotwisdom)

tiaka — Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:04:35 -0800

Your-anus doesn't have the most moon anymore, Saturn does. 22. haha.

owillis — Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:04:03 -0800

"clouds and even rain showers seem to have been spotted on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Scientists have already labeled Titan a hot spot in the search for extraterrestrial life, and the new work adds to that enthusiasm." You bet it does.