November 14th, 2007
Looking home
Posted by
chrislintott in
Uncategorized, Moon
I’ve just landed in California as part of a fairly epic Sky at Night trip around the US, conducting interviews for a couple of programmes about the new era of lunar exploration. I am slightly worried that we should really be in China or Japan, though, as both countries have successful new probes in orbit around the Moon right now. One of the things that surprises me - particularly when you talk to astronauts who were lucky enough to actually go there - is that the more we explore the Moon, our companion in space, the more we end up looking back home. That was true in the Apollo era, and it’s true with these amazing shots from the Kaguya probe.
Hat tip : Bad Astronomy.
Update : Better Bad Astronomy post.
on November 15th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I wonder, is this the cosmic version of
‘’the grass is always greener'’ ?
How shall we rephrase this for the next generation?
suggestion;
‘’the Planets always bluer'’