Moon
Categories
Links
NSSDC Photo Gallery: Moon
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/PhotoGallery-Moon.html
Select images from various space probes and telescopes.
Robonaut from NASA/JPL/DARPA
http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/robonaut.html
The Robonaut project seeks to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that can function as an EVA astronaut equivalent.
SMART-1: ESA's Mission to the Moon
Official mission site includes articles, images, FLASH presentation, PDF brochures, etc.
Space.com: More Moons Around Earth?
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/second_moon_991029.html
Article describing the asteroid Cruithne, and orbital motions at gravitational balance points in space that temporarily pull asteroids into Earth orbits.
Summer Moon Illusion
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/24jun_moonillusion.htm?list661644
An explanation of the illusion that the Moon, low on the horizon, is actually bigger then when seen higher in the sky.
The Moon Illusion Explained
http://facstaff.uww.edu/mccreadd/
Why our satellite looks big at the horizon and smaller when higher up.
The Moon Museum
http://moon.uc.edu/ar2des3.htm
A tour made on the 30th anniversary of the first lunar landing.
The Solar System in Action: Moon
http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/moon.html
General information about the satellite, the eclipses and the phases, presented in a popular language.
What's a Blue Moon?
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/moon/article_127_1.asp
From Sky and Telescope magazine. Explains what it is and when the phenomenon happens.
Woman in the Moon
http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/fellows/georgepage.html
Several features of lunar landscape combined can be seen as a profile of a woman.