Return to the Moon, or Astronomical Picture of the Day Highlights
Please join us for presentation of either Brian Day on Artemis and US return to the Moon,
or
Robert Nemiroff for a tour of the highlights from the Astronomy Picture of the Day archive for 2022.
(audience choice)
Brian Day from NASA's SSERVI brings us up to date about NASA’s plans for lunar exploration, including the Artemis missions. The Artemis missions will include a mix of crewed and robotic landings. Thirteen regions near the South Pole of the Moon have been identified as candidates for human exploration. Some of these same regions have also been targeted for precursor robotic landings through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program. In addition, locations away from the South Pole have been designated as targeted sites for robotic exploration due to some fascinating aspects of these sites. Other locations which have not yet been assigned landers are high on the lunar science community’s list of important lunar locations to be explored. In this presentation, we will examine key potential target sites on the Moon, discuss what makes them so compelling, and demonstrate how members of the public can conduct their own explorations of these amazing lunar locations using NASA’s Moon Trek data visualization and analysis portal.
EAS meeting - 3:00 pm, Evergreen Branch Library, in south Everett, in the meeting room.
Please join us for presentation of either Brian Day on Artemis and US return to the Moon,
or
Robert Nemiroff for a tour of the highlights from the Astronomy Picture of the Day archive for 2022.
(audience choice)
Brian Day from NASA's SSERVI brings us up to date about NASA’s plans for lunar exploration, including the Artemis missions. The Artemis missions will include a mix of crewed and robotic landings. Thirteen regions near the South Pole of the Moon have been identified as candidates for human exploration. Some of these same regions have also been targeted for precursor robotic landings through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program. In addition, locations away from the South Pole have been designated as targeted sites for robotic exploration due to some fascinating aspects of these sites. Other locations which have not yet been assigned landers are high on the lunar science community’s list of important lunar locations to be explored. In this presentation, we will examine key potential target sites on the Moon, discuss what makes them so compelling, and demonstrate how members of the public can conduct their own explorations of these amazing lunar locations using NASA’s Moon Trek data visualization and analysis portal.
EAS meeting - 3:00 pm, Evergreen Branch Library, in south Everett, in the meeting room.
Date: Saturday, July 15, 2023
Time: 3 p.m. Pacific
Location:
Evergreen Branch Library
9512 Evergreen Way
Everett, WA
