moon

Nvidia used global illumination to prove we did land men on the moon

Posted in Software on 21st Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller

Conspiracy theorists have argued that the 1969 image of Buzz Aldrin descending the ladder wasnt possible because Aldrin should have been in the shadow of the lander.

Crops Grow On Fake Moon And Mars Soil

Posted in Science on 10th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller

That means future space colonizers may be able to farm their own food using local dirt.

The Plan to Make the Moon an Enormous Detector of Cosmic Rays

Posted in Science on 6th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller

Where do these ultrahigh energy cosmic rays come from? Astronomers have a plan to find out, using the moon and a massive new radio telescope array.

The core of the moon is hot

Posted in Science on 10th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

An international research team has found an extremely soft layer inside the Moon where heat is generated by the gravity of the Earth.

Moon mystery: Why our Earth's satellite is lemon-shaped

Posted in Science on 31st Jul, 2014
by Alex Muller

The early Moon was closer to Earth than today, so its shape may have been changed by the tides.