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An image captured by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Chang’e 4 landing site from a distance of over 200 miles, revealing both the probe and the desolate lunar landscape around it.
https://gizmodo.com/freaky-view-from-lunar-orbit-shows-chinese-lander-on-th-1832425714
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A unique view of the Moon, with its far side facing the camera and an unsettlingly tiny Earth lurking in the background, has been captured by China’s Longjiang-2 satellite.
https://gizmodo.com/chinese-satellite-snaps-rare-pic-of-lunar-far-side-and-1832392868
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A re-analysis of lunar materials collected during the Apollo 14 mission has resulted in a rather astonishing conclusion: One of the rocks brought back appears to contain a small chunk of Earth dating back some 4 billion years. Incredibly, it’s now amongst the oldest terrestrial rocks known to exist.
https://gizmodo.com/apollo-astronauts-may-have-brought-a-piece-of-ancient-e-1832055011
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New research suggests that much of the material that made life possible on Earth arrived after a cataclysmic collision between our planet and a Mars-sized object billions of years ago—likely the same collision that produced the Moon, the scientists say.
https://gizmodo.com/a-collision-with-another-planet-may-have-seeded-earth-w-1831984838
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If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. Such is the philosophy of Jose Maria Madiedo, an astronomer at the University of Huelva in Spain, who, for over 10 years, has tried to capture a meteorite hitting the Moon during a lunar eclipse. Yesterday, during the so-called “Super Blood Wolf Blood Moon,” it finally…
https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-the-moon-was-struck-by-a-meteorite-during-th-1831950105
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https://gizmodo.com/china-successfully-deploys-jade-rabbit-2-rover-on-moons-1831486960
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On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts William Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman reached lunar orbit, allowing them to become the first humans in history to witness an Earthrise. The images captured that day, showing our planet in context with the lunar landscape, remain among the most enduring photos taken…
https://gizmodo.com/50-years-later-the-iconic-apollo-8-earthrise-photo-sti-1831298664
