The Earth's Moon

The Earth's Moon

• Solar System Websites
• Solar System -- Specialized Websites
• The Sun
• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• The Moon
• Moon pages
• School pages
• Articles
• Lunar space missions
• Observing the Moon
  (including eclipses, phases)
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Pluto
• Minor Objects:
  Asteroids & Comets
• Meteors, Meteorites, & Impacts
• Interplanetary Space / Space Physics

Some Related Pages

• The Sun
• Space Missions
• Related Sciences
• Articles & News
• Observing the Sky
• Astronomy Pictures
• Astronomy with Math
• Understanding Orbits
• Extra-Solar Planets
  
• Life in the Universe

Moon Pages on Solar System Websites:

• The Moon @ SEDS Nine Planets
• Moon @ Views of the Solar System
• The Moon @ NSSDC
• StarDate Online | Solar System Guide | Moon
• The New York Times - The Moon data and recent news articles.



• NASA Spacelink - Earth's Moon
  Links to NASA educational pages and related links.
• Moon Pages @ McAuliffe Challenger Center.
• "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Moon" (sic) Univ. of Texas.
• Cheryl Robertson's Whole Moon Page
  Nicely done website about many cultural aspects of the Moon, as well as about the physical science.
• The Motions of the Moon by Wesley Colley, September 14, 1998, Suite101.Com
• Is it a coincidence that the moon's period of rotation and revolution are identical? @ Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Astronomy
• Volcanism on the Moon @ Volcano World
• LPI Lunar and Planetary Institute Home Page
• Lunar exploration science results @ Exploring the Moon
• also see Clementine Explores the Moon by Paul D. Spudis (LPI)
• Moon History (about results from past Lunar missions) @ Lunar Prospector Homepage
  Includes pages on background science.
• Lunar Ice Special Report from Spacer.Com
• Also see Lunar Prospector on the Solar System Space Missions page for reports about looking for Lunar Ice.
• Lunar Samples @ NASA JSC
• Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility @ NASA JSC:
• Virtual Tour of the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility
• Rocks & Soil from the Moon @ NASM / NASA JSC
• Lunar Samples by The Meteoritical Society
• See Space Resources-Univ. of Wisconsin, especially the sections by Harrison Schmidt.
• Shorty Crater and the Orange Soil- A visit to a Dark Halo Crater About the orange lunar soil discovered during the Apollo 17 mission.
• Planetary Sciences Inst.
• Origin of the Moon about the recent collision-with-Earth theory by William K. Hartmann and Donald R. Davis,
• NOVA - To the Moon
  PBS documentary, July 13, 1999.
  Includes a science section on the origins of the Moon.
• The Triple Triumph of the Moon - Isaac Asimov
• ADS Virtual Book Library
• Papers presented at the Conference on the Origin of the Moon, held in Kona, Hawaii, October 1984.
• American Lunar Society
• Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers
• The Moon, A Resource Guide Astronomical Soc. of the Pacific.
  A listing of offline literature and other study resources about the Moon.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• May 23, 2001 - Strange Orange Soil on the Moon
• March 26, 1999 - Impact Moon


Also check the more general links in the sections,

• Solar System Overview Websites
• Solar System -- Specialized Websites

School pages and projects

• Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground:
• The Earth's Moon
• The Awesome Moon A student project @ Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Searching the Cosmos--Intersession 1998
• The Moon: Spotlight In The Sky a student project @ Eastchester, NY Middle School.
• Kids On The Moon Lunar Base @ Immaculate Conception School (New Jersey)
• The Origin of the Moon by Roberto Bugiolacchi. University College London, Dept. of Geological Sciences.
• The Earth's Moon Planetary Geology for Teachers, Idaho State University.
• The Moon activity pages from Hawaii Space Grant Consortium.
• Includes Large Images of the Moon with latitude and longitude lines.

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Articles:

• The New York Times - The Moon
• NASA Planetary Science Research Discoveries
• Moon article archive
• Uranus, Neptune, and the Mountains of the Moon
• The Surprising Lunar Maria Titanium in lunar maria, by G. Jeffrey Taylor, June 23, 2000.
• The Moon's very small core by Linda M.V. Martel. Sept. 24, 1999.
• Origin of the Earth and Moon by G. Jeffrey Taylor, December 31, 1998.
• The Biggest Hole in the Solar System, about the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin. By G. Jeffrey Taylor, July 17, 1998.
• Moonbeams and Elements by G. Jeffrey Taylor, October 20, 1997.
• Explosive Volcanic Eruptions on the Moon by Catherine M. Weitz, February 12, 1997.
• Ice On the Bone Dry Moon by Paul D. Spudis, December 21, 1996.
• The Motions of the Moon by Wesley Colley, September 14, 1998, Suite101.Com
• Also see the Articles Page

Space Missions to the Moon

Links to: Lunar space mission

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Observing the Moon

Please see the Observing the Sky page.


• Observing The Moon
  Includes phases of the Moon.

• Observing Eclipses

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