Watch the Moon Evolve in Three Minutes

NASA\’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has traced the moon\’s early history as well as the latest trash left behind by moonwalkers, and now the team behind the mission has created a video smashing 4.5 billion years of the moon\’s existence into less...

MOON-ing Over Seismic Activity

The standard picture of the moon is of a long-dead object, geologically speaking. But using observations from cameras on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Thomas Watters and colleagues say in the journal Nature Geosciences that there are signs of more recent...

Moon Magnetism

Image courtesy Science/AAAS – The moon\’s magnetic rocks are pictured to the left in dark red. Unlike Earth, the moon has no global magnetic field, but patches of the satellite\’s surface are magnetic. According to new models, these unusually...

Apps We Love: AutoStitch Panorama

Have you ever wanted to capture a wider view in a photo? Do you sometimes wish you had a better camera on your iPhone or iPod Touch? With AutoStitch, you can: – Combine multiple photos to produce wide-angle panoramas with no visible seams – Create...