Global Moon Party I

from iceland with daniel oh hello
hello say hi eve say hi
hi jessica
okay if you uh remind your if anybody's
watching the stream of it just make sure you have your audio turned off on that
computer it's a common mistake even with myself
good reminder i was just doing that
almost the top of the hour
should we kick off the kickoff party yeah we're we're streaming live right
now hi everyone and our mics are hot
scott are we uh are we going to begin with debbie waltzing
or shall we jump right into some introductions
completely up to you guys well i know we're gonna get to hear some
more debbie waltzing later so why don't we get started with our party okay welcome welcome welcome and and
scott i'll hand it off to you to kick us off okay all right so uh
i will take us to the to our wind sink trim
and here we are [Music]
and here we are we have started officially the um
global moon party and the kickoff for the international observe the moon night and uh
so uh with us uh you know i'm just part of a team of wonderful individuals um we
started out this this idea with uh vivian white at night sky network
and um she has invited on just an amazing group of support people and
speakers and presenters from all over the country i think from different parts of the world as well i think all the way
out to iceland which is totally cool and so uh you know later in the program we even
have amy kaminsky senior policy advisor for the office of the chief scientist at nasa so that's it
doesn't get any cooler than that um why don't you take it away vivian and kayla
thank you scott i am so excited to kick off the international observe the moon night season with this um global star
party scott has been amazing at explore alliance helping us to
um coordinate all of the herd all the cats he's an expert cat herder thank you so much scott it's really lovely to be
here and thanks for being the man behind the curtain figuring all of the things out absolutely my pleasure
i am vivian white i work at the astronomical society of the pacific in san francisco california
where i am thrilled to be able to work on the nasa night sky network i've got
my colleague dave prosper here with me who is running quite a few things behind
the scenes too thanks dave and i want to introduce um the other
uh host of this evening kayla berry she works at nasa
goddard and has just been an amazing coordinator of getting this all together so we're really excited to kick off the
international observe the moon night we'll say week kayla welcome
thank you vivian thank you scott and hello everyone we are so excited to be here with you my name is kayla berry and
i work in the solar system exploration division at nasa's goddard space flight center i am also the host and observer
liaison for international observe the moon night which is a worldwide public
engagement event that happens every year in just a few moments the director of the program andrea jones is going to
tell you all about it but before we get there i would just like to provide a quick peek at some of the exciting
things that are coming our way tonight our first hour of the program
is going to focus on all the ways that you can get involved with international observe the moon night pro tips
resources activities we are here to welcome you help you figure it out and
welcome your ideas if you're someone who has done this before in the second hour of our program we are
going to focus on citizen science and education resources so we will hear from as scott
mentioned amy kaminsky who is part of the artemis prizes challenges and crowd sourcing
program we will get to hear from special guests at slu about some educational resources that are available through
their program from our colleagues at the lunar and planetary institute we have an awesome hands-on activity demonstration for you
and we're also very excited to welcome brandon rodriguez from jpl education
with an additional activity demonstration and we're going to kick off that hour with a citizen
science program so if you are interested in getting involved with the science
that nasa does tune in that's for you we're really excited to share some opportunities
there our last hour is going to go over perspectives from a few
different nasa folks in addition to the ones that you'll hear from earlier in the program we'll get a
moon in review recent and upcoming winter news with stacey t again we'll get to hear from ernie wright who
is a data visualizer at nasa's scientific visualization studio we'll
see a couple of really cool ways to tour the moon virtually that you can do at
home on your own and we'll get to hear from the person behind the astronomy picture
of the day series which has been a favorite of mine for a long time and i'm so pleased that we get to
hear from robert later today throughout the program we are very very
excited to be able to bring you some musical offerings from the wind quintet wind sink
and others um and that's just a quick preview of some of the things that are coming our
way this evening so with that i'll kick it back to vivian and scott for any any more words before
we jump in i am just reading through some of the comments on youtube and i was gonna say please let us know where you're um
joining from i know we have people from all over the globe for this global moon party so it's really lovely to just know
that you're out there and tuning in yeah and and from us uh
explore alliance it's just really great to be a part of it and to uh uh be the
the guys that are connecting the wires to you know to run this i'm i'm just as excited as all of you guys are uh in
watching these amazing presenters so thank you thank you scott
all right let's kick it off um we have with us to start the evening
one of international observe the moon nights founding members and now the public
engagement lead who is running the international observant night with an incredible team of people who many of
whom you'll meet tonight i want to introduce andrea jones who's going to share with us um some more about
international observe the moon night she is a scientist at um nasa goddard and works
with oops just as i got it together works at the solar system exploration division um so
andrea welcome we love to hear from you and hear all about your experience with the international observe the moon night
because you have had you've been doing this for quite a while i have um but it is so wonderful to be
here um with all of you and i oh whoops i think i'm sharing
ah hold on i think it messed up what's going on um
let's see is this ah okay
this are you seeing something yes excellent okay
okay good good the best right there excellent all right well thank you so much and thank you all for being here
thank you so much to vivian and kayla and scott and the whole night sky network and the whole team that's
putting this together and to all of our presenters for being here and to all of you for for joining us this evening um
or this morning or whatever time it is where you are but this is our first global moon party that we've ever done
um we've been doing this event for a long time now and i'll tell you a little bit about it um but i'm really really
happy to be part of this first global moon party and to be here with all of you um as we are
trying out something new it's always fun to have a new thing uh together but as we're um getting underway here let's
see if i can change aha okay so for those of you who are not familiar
with our program international observant is a worldwide celebration of lunar
science exploration celestial observation and our personal and cultural connections to the moon so you
can see a few ways how people are participating here but really it's one day each year that we invite everyone on
earth to go out look at the moon observe the moon celebrate the moon together and though i said one day it's really a
series of days so as vivian said we do have one official date and this year the official date is october 16th but we
have a window because we know that date doesn't work for everyone just like it didn't for this particular party so this
year from october 8th until the 24th um we are celebrating the moon in lots of
different ways some people are having virtual events like this one others are in person
there's maybe a few less of those right now during our global pandemic um and
places where you can gather safely um that's another choice so there's lots of resources that we have on our
website on moon.nasa.gov observe and we want people to take those materials take
the inspiration to go out look at the moon and learn about the moon and then make it your own so depending
on your interests perhaps you work in a museum a science center with a classroom and you want to have an event that's
great we want you to tailor it for your own audience and the resources that you have available or maybe you want to
observe the moon at home with your family or with your friends or as an individual lunar observer and we think
all of that is wonderful and just want everyone to go out and have a wonderful meaningful experience for them with the
moon and we try to provide a lot of resources on our website to do that so
let's see all right so this event um or this program uh was inspired by the lunar
reconnaissance orbiter and our twin or our sister spacecraft the lunar crater observing and sensing satellite uh back
in 2009 we had a big event at nasa goddard in maryland and at nasa ames in
california celebrating we're at the moon we had these big we're at the moon parties and people seem to like them and
so we thought hey we can keep this up and so we kept having events to invite
everyone in the world um to actually we started a lot smaller we started you know thinking just our local communities
and we thought national and we never did that because right away people around the world expressed interest in doing
this with us um and so we've kept it up since then but the lunar reconnaissance orbiter has
been with us the entire time this is a spacecraft that's still at the moon today and is helping really reshape our
understanding of our nearest neighbor in space so here i'm showing a few of our data sets we have
all the way on the left the near side and far side visible imagery with our cameras the middle is
showing you the topography of the surface which we actually know better than the topography of the earth or any
other large planet we actually know the shape of bennu uh better than the moon now but then it's a little bit smaller
and then we also monitor the temperatures of the lunar day and the lunar night and during lunar eclipses to
see how the surface changes and understand some of the physical and chemical properties of the surface with
temperature as well and also help prepare for going back to the moon and what kind of temperature
environment what kind of radiation environment what kind of you know impact cratering rate are we seeing um so that
we can protect our equipment and our astronauts when we return there um and the bottom images are one of those new
impact craters um which i just think is so beautiful we're watching the moon change before our eyes
and it's gorgeous it's dazzling and um this is a process that happens throughout the solar system on every
solid body and beyond as well so we're learning about that as well as admiring
it um the middle image is really just because i think it's gorgeous it's a sunrise or sunset which one over the
northern uh pole of the moon which is just stunning and we're gonna have views like this um at the south pole as
well and ernie wright later will will show you some of our great imagery um and or really the visualizations of what
we're preparing uh better astronauts will see at the south pole and over on the right i include that because
we've been to the moon but there are still so many mysteries about the moon
so this is a crazy feature called aina d that we don't really understand what it
is yet it might be evidence of recent volcanism on the moon um a volcanism
type that we do have on the earth but we really need to learn more about all of these features
the moon still has many many secrets um that we would love to learn more about
all right so some other things about our event so international observatory night takes
place every year in september or october on a saturday is always the official
event date but again we have a date range to be more flexible for everyone's
schedules out there and it's always around first quarter this is kind of a late phase for us it's a little more in
the gibbous phase than we normally have it but this was just a great time to
look at the moon um when you see that line
between day and night you're seeing the terminator and the terminator is a great
place to look at the rugged topography of the moon the cratered landscape
really pops out um when you see that line between day and night so that's why we don't normally do
a full moon even though we encourage you to go out anytime you can possibly see the moon but we specifically pick a
phase where you can see on that terminator and then can look through telescopes if you have
any available or binoculars and that's a really really nice place to look at the moon and each year also
brian day from nasa ames who's on our team makes moon maps for us so it used to be one moon map now he's
gone above and beyond and we have several moon maps we have three different ones this year made for northern hemisphere and southern
hemisphere and if you go to our website on moon.nasa.gov observe under the resources you can find this and each one
of these features he picks new ones every year and then describes them for you and he
always picks some along the terminator so in case you get to look through a telescope or um binoculars or even just
with your naked eye there are some really really neat features to look for and this year he also made video flyovers in moon trek
for each of these sites so you can take a look at those and some will be later on in the broadcast as well
oh all right so let me step ahead here okay so international deserve the moon
night is a great time to talk about lunar science and exploration and what's been going on in the past year uh with
lunar science so stacy pedickin my colleague is going to be talking with you later about a lot of different
things that have been going on this past year in lunar science so i won't go into great detail here um but some some sneak
peeks of what she might talk about are sunlight or on the moon we thought that was a dry
place turns out you can actually get little little bits of water even on the sunlit surfaces of the moon which is
really really incredible we also found some great places potentially to look for
samples if we go collect rock samples on the moon again where can we find some that will tell us about the deep
interior or at least you know deeper in the mantle than we get on most parts of the crust um to learn about what the
interior of the moon is like so this was another release this past year um and then we're also
doing some field work here on earth to learn about how to explore the moon how to prepare
to safely explore the moon in areas of rich scientific interest and
keep our astronauts safe keep our equipment safe and really get the best science out of our expeditions to the
moon and beyond and our next speaker is from iceland i had the great pleasure to go there um not too long ago and learn
about how we're doing some of these preparations as well and we're going to feature this on our nasa expeditions
twitter account the week after international observe the moon if anyone's interested but there's many more um scientific advantages to talk
about and some of these are collected in a slide deck that stacy t can also is going to post to our website so i hope
you turn in for her talk and i also hope that you check out our website for more information
all right i wanted to share just a few more things with you about our event so
ah i think i'm flipping ahead here so in addition to um celebrating lunar science
and exploration this is also a great time to be celebrating the moon in our
culture our personal connections to the moon um and the moon in art and science are in arts
um as well so we have a lot of different ways to observe the moon um we love different
cultural stories some of them will be featured in this broadcast as well um but you really have we we really
encourage people to observe in creative ways so you can touch the
moon we have some 3d prints there we of course have images from spacecrafts you can go outside and look at it you can
also make moon art you can take pictures of the moon you can share them with us
on social media if you have um a fun way that you're observing the moon show us what you're doing share that with the
world and you can do that through all kinds of social media channels and we link to those on our website or observe
the moon on any social media platform and you can share that with the world and with us we'd love to see how you are
observing the moon so last year this is our map of participation in the middle there
so this is an event where hundreds of thousands of people get together each year to observe the moon to learn about
the moon to celebrate the moon and by being here today you are a part of that
so we're so glad that you're here to to learn about the moon with us um and you
can see lots of different ways again that people have been participating so we've been updating our website we're
providing new resources and graphics we encourage you to you know observe in groups where you can or observe you know
outside and all on your own or with your family friends i really like the moon because um this time when i am distance
from a lot of my friends and family we're all able to look at the same moon together so i think that's really really
special and you can find this and a lot more on our website so thank you so much for
being here thanks again to our organizers and our hosts um and i'm really really looking forward to
having a having a great night here with you all so thank you so much
all right thank you andrea for that introduction to international observe the moon night
as andrea mentioned our next guests are calling in all the way from iceland and
i want to extend a huge huge uh
thank you to our next three guests who are all calling in from time zones where it is very late at night so without any
further delay i'd like to welcome daniel wiebe from
the iceland space agency and austis sif gunnar stotcher a poet from iceland who
are going to deliver our next presentations thank you so much uh kayla vivian andrea
it's a real pleasure uh to be here we're honored to join all of you i'm here
in lunar habitat reykjavik uh the the habitat i'm actually sitting in was was
designed uh by students at the rhode island school of design under the leadership of professor michael lye
who we've been working with here at the iceland space agency and this specific habitat was designed for the lunar south
pole um so i thought it would be apropos to uh to join from uh from
middeck here um but without further ado i'd like to introduce uh our very special guest here
uh austie sif uh who is a poet uh a video artist
here in uh here in iceland and working all over the globe uh and she's uh
put together a very special lunar uh poem for us tonight
so without further ado austie seth
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foreign
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you reflect the sun gazing at us from the skies
we read into you we look at you as a signal
when the moon is full we can feel it it has a direct effect on us
our feelings high tide low tide the water
you are our cosmic clock are where and will be
in the search for water a lady steps onto the lunar surface
one step closer to the martian hills to explore and reflect the blue light
of home
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thank you
now thank you austies um it was real really uh a pleasure to to
hear that that's the first time i've heard the poem all the way through uh austie's actually
has been composing uh these words uh for the last uh last few days a few weeks
so thank you and um till harming you uh congratulations to
uh to everyone for this incredible kickoff event um here in iceland uh many of you may
know that in fact at the beginning of the uh the space age the original apollo astronauts
came here to iceland to train uh for their eventual landing at tranquility
base uh they came here in 1965 and 1967
for geology uh training missions and since then uh researchers from nasa
have continued to come to iceland with a great frequency and now with artemis
the importance of iceland is uh that much more um
both martian research uh analog research uh is being done here in iceland and has
been for the last couple years and now with uh the return to the moon
uh astronaut training will resume uh here in in iceland once more
and just this past summer we were field testing the ms-2
moon mars analog spacesuit simulator and we have some very special footage that's never
been seen before that i'd like to share with you and uh i'll i'll be talking
over it there's no audio uh to the video uh but this was captured
uh just uh this past august and uh there were actually three
separate teams all in iceland this summer all doing separate research
but i think it emphasizes the uh the importance of iceland for the future of
space exploration and we're just really excited uh to be here and be able to offer logistical support research
support um for the artemis program and and without further ado i'd like to uh show
you uh some some video documentation of our field testing of the ms2
and scott if um here we go thank you
so this uh this material here was uh was taken uh in the highlands
uh the original uh apollo training missions were all done uh north of botany local glacier around
the volcano oscar this is actually further south in the highlands uh central south
highlands specifically and here we can see one of our analog
astronauts alex who's uh an experienced uh royal uh
military aviator actually uh who was field testing the uh the ms2
and the goal of this project is to basically develop the most
the spacesuit simulator the highest fidelity so that we can do training here on earth
that can give us the confidence and also the data necessary to understand
what's necessary for the future of spacesuits for the artemis mission
and the specific geometry that we're looking at here with the ms2
came from uh johnson space center and artemis generation
xemu spacesuits but the spacesuit simulator specifically
is designed for analog research so it's not pressurized and it's designed to simulate as close
as possible what a spacesuit would feel like on the moon or mars but here on earth
and so here we we visited a number of both lunar and
martian terrains uh here you can see uh alex
trekking about on uh basaltic sands and here uh we're inside of a uh of a lava tube
the importance of lava tubes the significance uh for space exploration is
that of course on the lunar surface um we don't have a magnetosphere to protect
us from solar radiation so it's important to find shelters
that can shield us from the dangerous uh solar radiation cosmic radiation and
it's believed that uh there are lava tubes on both the moon and mars and that
these lava tubes will uh potentially be a place for habitation
that can shield astronauts uh from from these harmful uh
harmful rays and here you have uh we have matt pryor who was uh leading the analog endeavor
for us and he's exiting uh the lava tube uh stefan tetler
and once again the um of course we all we all understand that artemis is all about
going back to the moon to stay and using it as uh as a foothold to
eventually go onwards uh to mars and here in iceland we have all of these
terrestrial analogs in very close proximity uh to one another and i i
think you can see clearly um that uh that if you want to eventually uh go back to the
moon and onwards to mars uh you really should come come to iceland first so
with that i'm going to return this back to
our panel uh it's a real honor to be here and if any of you have any questions i'm happy to do my best to
answer them wonderful thank you so much daniel and
austie smith for celebrating international observe the moon night with us and for the gift of
your poetry and for this exciting science update um for now i'd like to invite john luca
mossy to join us just to stay with our schedule but folks if you have questions please do feel free to add them in the
chat and we will do our best to get answers back to you as we are able
our next guest thank you so much again daniel and i was to see
our next guest is uh jennifer massie who is a long time international observe the
moon knight supporter and a truly inspirational
night sky and evening and dawn sky photographer john luca
over to you thank you very much kyla for organizing this with the other colleagues it is
such a pleasure and privilege to be here and tonight because here in italy we are
in the middle of the night but it is cloudy so no starts tonight unfortunately but earlier
this evening i could i could spot the moon and it was funny because we were going to talk about our beautiful
satellite and uh as you told i have been loving the international of sardine
night since the very beginning and i really believe that celebrating the moon is a great idea not only for the science
and there is a lot of exciting science of course under the name of the moon but
because the moon is bringing us a lot of other meanings because it is so much
celebrated in any culture here in italy i am speaking from rome we have plenty
of references in our culture to the moon i can tell about many poems many many
many songs many hearts in general so it is such a beautiful cosmic object and it
is it is bringing us so many inspirations and as an astronomer i started my
interest in the field looking at the moon of course and i was attracted by is
a changing face night after night and this was bringing to me the idea that
there was a rhythm in the sky that is the moon orbiting around us and
as andrea reminded us looking at the terminator of the moon every night was a
joy and a discover a discovery for me and now i try to bring the same
excitement to the other people when i have the opportunity to meet them and to talk about
the moon about uh our natural satellite in the night sky in general but the moon is really a
winning object i have seen many people crying looking through a telescope when
they look at the moon and this is something i cannot describe by words
this is why from time to time i try to take images of our natural satellite our
cosmic network how i love to call our moon but
taking images of the moon can be very easy or very hard depending on what you
really want to do and we have now smartphones around that that can they can take some very nice pictures of the
moon and you also have very nice telescopes even amateur people have a
very nice telescope they can use to grab so beautiful images that can they can be
used for scientific purposes of course but i want to share with you a few
images i did here in rome where i live because at some point of my life i this
i discovered the beauty to put together the beauty of the moon and the beauty of
the place where i live and of course this is true for everyone i am your own but you are in your own town your own
country and discovering this connection under the name of the beauty can be very
nice especially on the international observe the moon night and i will i want
to try to share with you a few of the these sites and i hope that you can see them
and very lucky you can even recognize a few monuments
in rome and i particularly love to imagine the full moon yes i know
people with the experience with the moon know that observing the full moon is not the
best when you really want to see details because you basically have no shadows not contrast but looking at the moon
from the city when the moon is full is a true experience and here it is for
example the full moon rising above rome with some monuments from the city and
hopefully this is bringing to you i mean this connection i mean this beauty
on a beautiful connection between our satellite and our heart and for me this
is amazing this is why i really love to go out there to find a place in the
city from from where i can i can see the moon showing just behind that moment that
monument for example and here it is the very famous colosseum and again here you
have the full moon rising just behind the corrosion and i i cannot tell
the emotion i i i can really enjoy i can experiment while i am facing this
personally and i really hope that this image is able to bring to you the same feelings the same the same experience
and again this is the colosseum on the left with the sequence showing one of the best on the
most beautiful lunar eclipses i could observe in 2018 so a few years ago and i could
share this live this live feed this live view story at the time we were not
handling with the pandemic with literally thousands of people and it was something truly truly magic
and again this is the full moon rising behind the colosseum as well
you understand i love this monument and it is a symbol of the city of course
this is a for me seeing the sky i love together with the city i love is a
really really a new experience and this is really motivating this part of my
photographic work and this public outreach activity because i invite people to try the same so go
there just wait for the moon rising or setting or just wait for the moon and
try to put together the city your the place where you live and the sky you love this is something i really ask
people to try and i'm sure you will love the experience and of course not only the full moon
even tonight for example there was such a sharp crescent of the moon you can see here the san peter dome and on the left
our beautiful satellite i'm really amazed that every time it it is like the
first time no matter i forgot how many years ago i started observing the nice sky but the moon for me is always as the
first time because i cannot tell to tell you the magic of course i am a scientist
but my heart and my soul are the first things to to to to enjoy the experience
then my mind is is asked to come into play but the first reaction is in the
name of the beauty we are sharing we are seeing together and again this is a full
moon setting down and again here you can see the some peter dome and you here had
a very peculiar eclipse as you can see and i i had to wait for here for this exact
alignment because uh it is not obvious to have this kind of things you know and
this experience looking at the moon from the city is also also it is also trying
training you to wait for the right moment this is something you can use in your personal life at some point very
likely and again the full moon above the great synagogue in rome are
down and i really love this kind of combinations i i really hope that these images will
tell you the same that i i feel well i am alone early in the morning or
somewhere at sunset just waiting for those things to happen and here again the san peter basilica at
sunset with amazing colors with the the moon and the air shine making
possible for us to guess the entire lunar disc and by the way it was a leonardo da vinci more than five
centuries ago to try to explain the origin of the earth shine and it was
relatively right considering it was five centuries ago and
you can try i invite you to to see to read what leonardo wrote about the
origin of this elegant simple but so elegant
effect you can see on the moon when it is so young and again the city yeah i
cannot tell you how many monuments are here right it will take a lot of time but trust me there they they are i mean
there is rome with its its most famous and important monuments just enjoying the moon rising above it
and here of course there is also the local observatory with the very young moon setting and between the moon at the
observatory there is a dotto light it is a planet mars so it is a quite a nice image because we
are we have been on the moon we are going there again but we are also hoping to visit mars pretty soon and i hope
that this image will it is like i like to say good luck to those taking
the way to mars and this is from uh last spring this is one of the images i
i really love more and this is as you can see i i prefer to work with
my photographic equipment i never use i didn't use telescopes for this kind of
images this is typical photographic equipment and i prefer to work at
sunset or up down when i imagine the full moon because you still have some
light surviving around the environment so you can enjoy both your local place
and the moon rising or setting this is why i really prefer to work
at those very precise moments of the day of the day and uh again i i i i
i can i really can observe i can stare at these at this these events and these are these
amazing shows for hours unfortunately the earth is rotating you know so at
some point the moon will set and the show is over otherwise very likely i
could stay there for the eternity because you know you understand me because we
share the same passion for the night sky for the moon of course and this is one of the last images i
want to share and this is from last august and i'm particularly proud here
because you have the full moon rising again you have the italian flag and the flag is just above the
the building where our president is living so there is the italian republic
in this image together with the moon and i was very happy i have i i i have been
trying to take this image for a few years because that day
there is a very narrow window for me to have this alignment and the past years i
had clouds of course murphy is always in action as you as you know my friends
and just to give you an idea of what a very simple photographic equipment can
do you can also image craters without having telescopes this has been done with the
400 millimeters lens nothing special but you can see many features not very
different from the face we will have next week when we will celebrate the international observer the moon night
and the last image again from the moon and as i told you looking at the moon has a
lot of meanings because it is bringing to you the science but it is also bringing to you the dreams of many many
other people many many years before us and they have been looking at the same
moon and they have tried to explain what they were seeing and where
that was hard there was always poetry as we have listened earlier able to tell us
something very beautiful about the moon and i hope that these images will be
able to hopefully invite you to enjoy the upcoming international observer the moon
night because for me it is such a very special opportunity and i will do my
best here in italy to bring to moon to everyone and again i thank all of you
for the opportunity to share with you my uh my my experience my sentiments and my
love for our cosmic neckboard our beautiful moon thank you very much
oh that was so beautiful jean luca thank you so much my pleasure thank you so
much vivian incredible images and such passion i think you've inspired everyone watching
thank you thank you to you um i wanted to mention too that we put in the chat links to um some observing
guides for photographing the moon and i think that if anyone wants to try that there are some simple ways to do that
either with a cell phone or a real camera or with a small telescope there are lots of
great options there we encourage you all to um be inspired and and try that out
yourself thank you so much and i'm very happy again to thank you for
creating this and for the opportunity thank you so much thank you jean luca
all right um feel free to put questions in the chat and we're happy to take
those at the end i think we'll have some time left over with any luck i would love to introduce our next
speaker who is a friend of mine i am happy to say from oklahoma city astronomy club we've got eileen
grabowski joining us and eileen and her team at the oklahoma city
astronomy club have been doing amazing lunar outreach for observe the moon night and her pictures are just
they inspire me as well and i wanted to share those with you through eileen she is
wears many hats she ran the norman north high school astronomy club for many years and she right now is also the
teaching at the girl scout astronomy club of western oklahoma i think she's um running that so with all your hats
eileen i would love to hear from you and how you've been observing the moon for the past few years with international
observe the moon night and and you've done a really great job of um of helping us to think of ways to do
that more safely and i would love to hear you share that with everyone else thank you for joining us tonight
thank you very much um would you should i just hit the share screen button sure yeah okay let's see
if i can get there um
somehow i am not seeing the hostess spotlight of your video no
probably do that from here too if it's easier okay that may be the best way
all right at the moment
and stuff if you can bring it up from there it probably would be easier
got it it's giving me all sorts of weird i'm at the girl scout camp trevira right
now we're about to run a special stem night for the girls in
astronomy we're introducing the ev scope the girl scout astronomy club is getting
ready for observe the moon night so they're running a lunar station and all that good stuff so
is it coming up it is one second okay all right that's great thank you
um how about that okay hit the uh as vivian said i wear a
lot of hats and um they they keep asking me to be an officer for okc and do
things and i said no not at this time you know i'm i'm very busy i'm just
taking care of um just getting retired so could you go to the next slide vivian
and see if you can oh okay yeah because you're gonna have to advance it um
we've been at norman north we started experimenting with mr pete core who is a
parent member he's a good electrical engineer and he is also a very active
amateur astronomer in all these groups and so he and i have sponsored the kids
we do outreach to our local schools and we evolved this system he has a little
6m camera and a 6 inch telescope and we project the moon on the ground
and the kids get to dance to it so in october 2018 we took our show on
the road with the okc astronomy club and we actually did international
observe the moon night at the wheeler ferris wheel in oklahoma city on the south side of the river
and you can see the ferris wheel in the background and the kids just here we were able to project it down had
a big moon had a good dance floor and the kids get to dance on the moon sometimes we play things like ben
morrison's moon dance or we ask them if they know how to moonwalk and then we can see if they know michael jackson's
moonwalk how about the next one vivian i think it's another view
and you can see some of the kids just decide to sit some of them do all sorts of sit spins
um but it is you know a joyous event when we do it at the schools the kids love this
and so at the ferris wheel there weren't probably as many people as we have sometimes at the schools but this was a
great way to go and then the next slide shows towards the end of the night and people
were just you know before the ferris wheel closed i actually had former students come up and that's me and one
of my former students um you know just displaying um and the projectors up high obviously
at this point and you know the telescope's on the ground and we are we're running it with courts and
projecting onto the onto the ground the next one is
a view that came out of that one i talked to peter and i said peter what would it
take we have the the lunar eclipse coming up in january 2019
what would it take to project onto the side of the museum because the museum
the sam noble museum in natural history at the university of oklahoma has a great gray wall
and what you're seeing there is the entrance to the left and we were able to
put the moon up we also had probably about 15 scopes set off on the
side of the museum there so people could kind of float from this is pre-coveted
could float from one to the other all the local astronomy groups and anyone who is a norman um
person you know a norman resident probably came out to something like this we advertised through the
it was through the school the schools put out what they call
thursday folders and the kids get all sorts of information at that point um
the girl scout astronomy club definitely this was they had just constructed their first telescope
and um their eight inch job and so they were part of this and it was a great night but let me show
you what we were able to show and this was sort of a again january of 2019 way before we were thinking about
in terms of covet and so you can see the moon close to totality and we got a
picture more people were at this point stop staring at the museum wall then they were looking
through telescopes and so this eventually gave us the idea that this was one of the safe ways we
could distance people when we had to how about the next slide and see what we
have okay so last december confronted with
covid and last fall norman schools were virtual two weeks we
were hybrid two weeks and then we went back virtual and from october 12th on
we were in person all year fortunately i had a site administration that kept us
very very safe and they allowed us to have observations at our local elementary school that's
about four miles outside of norman in fairly dark skies not pristine we have
light pollution around us but it's to the east of the town and so we always have with the star
party we said we want to do this for the great conjunction and we said masking would be required
so we had about 10 telescopes that were willing to come that night and we set
them up about instead of six feet apart we went 10 to 12 and i think you have to
decide on your local what kind of community spread there is as to how far
apart you would put them and we lined all these scopes up on the west side of the school we noticed that people generally came in
family groups or groups of friends who had been traveling together so um we we definitely kept these groups
six to 10 feet apart and then we used the video set up to project the skies on the wall we also
had lysol wipes handy that we could we could
wash off any of the focusing mechanisms and things like that
on the scope so let me show you what we were able to do we again had a great wall
and so what you're seeing to the left is actually saturn
and and jupiter and saturn and on the right we had another set up because mr mark
klein came we we have a very active radio um club in the area and these are the
people who usually know all the electronics and and are willing to troubleshoot and do things like that
with us ladies could you please close the door i'm not
soon okay thank you i'm sorry there's a lot of people running around here and um so we put the
moon up here and then we had the conjunction and people absolutely loved it um how about the next slide you can see
how how close it went and here we had one of my our physics teacher and his young son william and they william
just took the spotlight and did the dancing and everything in front because he's
seen us do it on the ground so instead of the ground we went to we went to the outside
you know we went up and how about the next slide this past week i have been at the
okeetech star party and this is last year obviously
our okitech star party was canceled because of covet this year we went ahead and and and um
held it um we had obviously fewer people because of covid but it was still extremely
successful we had clear skies most nights in the nights it wasn't clear it would usually clear for
whole sections of the night um the the focus on covid if you're outside
um you have to be you know if you're indoors you definitely had to be masked but outside
it went with a pick two you had to be you were outside you were six feet apart and you or you were
masked so pick two of those and that was a very very um helpful uh
you know i think most of us felt safe there were a lot of people who didn't attend the talks inside because they
didn't want to be inside a lot of people grabbed their food ate outside
but it was an extremely successful star party and my students from norman north came with
the new teacher and i helped them you know do the same thing and we the kids were very good about masking and they
know it's a privilege of what we're doing so we we try different ways we're looking at
international observe the moon night next week if we have good weather i know okc will will probably set up this year
at wind surfers point and they have they've already started publicizing in the papers but
the idea is even if you're outside the observers prefer you come along and be
masked if not will have masks handy and to offer to people
and to be polite um but that's that's kind of the bottom line that since we
are a private group we want to play things safely so if you have any questions on the
technology it probably it takes a little longer to do something like that
but these are the glorious skies go to the next slide and this this photo is by one of our astrophotographers in the
club chris scott and this is the way the mesa country looks like with under red
light conditions um and this was obviously a long you know photo
time lapse photo so if you have questions please please please feel free to ask and we have i
live in oklahoma and my governor does not want to mask mandate
um so i think individuals and private groups have to have to take things into their own hands
and we want to do it safely we want to go observing but we want to take it safely
and i felt last year safe but this year there's no mass mandate in the schools and i'm glad i'm retired
so huge props to all the teachers who taught in these past few years thank you
so much eileen those pictures are amazing thank you thank you for sharing all of
your great ideas um i hope you all have a really really safe international observe the moon night and whatever that
looks like for you thank you i really appreciate and have a great night with the girl scouts
yeah um we're gonna take a really quick break um we're running a little behind so
we're just gonna share a bit of music with you and we'll be back in a couple of minutes thank you all for tuning in from everywhere
take good care we'll be right back
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huge thanks to winsync who just performed luna nova that was a
piece composed for the moon by mark miletis and the video artist for that
was robin p gold we thank you all so much we'll share the link to those in the chat there are quite a few and
you'll be hearing a few more tonight thank you for that i wanted to also encourage anyone who wants to join an
international observe the moon night event that there are quite a few going on both virtual and in person so
make sure to check out the link to the events page on the international observe the moon night and we'll put that up in
the chat if we haven't already thanks to everyone kayla would you like
to start the next hour off absolutely yes um wow so let's keep cruising right
along here with a huge thanks to everyone joining us from all over the world and all different time zones in
the first hour of our program we're going to uh to welcome now marilee colon
and marile is the principal investigator for nasa's
globe cloud gaze program as well as wearing other very exciting hats and she's going to
share with you a little bit about how you can get involved with nasa science welcome marily thank you for being here
thank you so much i'm really excited to be with all of you today i'm gonna be talking a little bit about
citizen science and observations and clouds i know clouds are not always our best friends but we need them they make
our nights warm and there are other things that maybe you can do when you do have clouds
um so a little bit about me i'm from san juan puerto rico that's why my name sounds a little bit different and yes i
got to go to the arecibo observatory before it
broke down sadly last year but that inspired me to study nature even though
i am an atmospheric scientist i'm also a backyard astronomer and that's a picture of me last year looking at the
conjunction and i've had the unique opportunity of being with the moon rocks
collected by the apollo mission so i'm really excited for international observe
the moon night i play sports as well and i've met a lot
of people playing sports at nasa that's my nasa volleyball team and we still play uncovered times we just look for a
space outside and i love music so i really enjoyed that piece that we just
heard before i started now not all clouds are created equal and
usually around this time of the year we get some altocumulus clouds and stratus
type clouds we also got get these thin wispy clouds which we call serous clouds
and i think once you've noticed that not all clouds are created equal
thank you so much for that um here's a picture of the moon i took about a week ago and you notice these
puffy clouds and you notice a ring around it those are all cumulus clouds which kind
of make it a little bit spooky for this time of the year which is really exciting but the color also tells you
what is inside of those clouds clouds can be composed of water droplets
ice crystals or both but when there are ice crystals you get some beautiful
things happening with the moon's reflection of the sunlight so the the
thickness of those ice clouds will result in halos or coronas like i have
here some examples here also if there's just ice crystals in the
in the air and they hit that moonlight just in the right spot you get some really
spectacular moon halos and moon coronas and things like that so
cold is the season for seeing all these spectacular things and
also sadly sometimes it does rain when you want to see the moon like tonight here
where i'm at in virginia but that's okay rain is important we do need rain and
not everybody knows that there's only two clouds i said it again two clouds
that produce rain there's only two human nimbus which is my favorite
thunderstorms and then nimbo stratus clouds now when you're setting up like i've
done with my family there's my husband and my daughter setting up for that conjunction picture that we took it's a
great time to make some cloud observations um
one of the things that we were running was the solar terminator problem and it's a problem when you're trying to
study clouds the solar terminators that line between the sunlit side of the
earth and the dark side of the earth and when you're using satellites to study clouds
some types of clouds kind of like disappear as you transition from looking at the
sunlight being reflected from clouds and looking and now at infrared
images of the clouds so we call it the solar terminator problem that's a great
time to make some cloud observations now remember also that the moon is out
during the day as well particularly during solar eclipses so you can also make cloud temperature
and other observations with the globe program and there's my daughter and her friend
looking at the solar eclipse in 2017
with their nasa goggles now what is the glow crop low globe
program globe stands for global learning and observations to benefit the environment
is nasa's largest and longest lasting citizen science program about the earth
now citizen science means that you make observations even though you're not a scientist or an expert in
the field and then us researchers who are studying
this use your observations in our studies and so the globe program started in 1995
when teachers students and scientists came together on ways to use observations and collect observations
for research purposes and here's a picture of our last face-to-face meeting
with all the students from around the world because globe is represented by 126
different countries and here are all the students that were present in our last face-to-face annual
meeting so we would love to have your observations through the globe program
particularly of clouds because i'll get to see them now we engage with different communities
and yes we have records in espanola
or do you speak other languages i just said that there's resources in spanish but because we are an international
community we have resources in six different languages we have resources for teachers for educators
after school programs lifelong learners families and communities so
what we do is that for your cloud observations the team here at nasa langley research
center in hampton virginia matches them to satellite data and then
you get a nasa personalized email with your observations matched to satellite
data pretty cool right it's really simple to use the app you can just download it for free it'll ask
you for for cloud cover sky conditions if you're seeing dust storms or smoke
plumes and then the coolest part is to take photographs it's really neat so you can download it for
free you can reach us in multiple ways and we hope to get your observations of
clouds either during the day or as you're setting up for night observations
and don't forget citizen science is for everybody visit nasa's citizen science
webpage to find out more about different programs about the earth
the solar system the universe the sun all different types so thank you so much for having me today
oh marley that was wonderful thank you so much
it's great to hear so you've made cloud look much less intimidating thanks even if you get clouded out for
international observing the moon night there is still ways there are still ways to participate in science so i hope you
all download that app and and get observing whatever you happen to have in your skies
thank you yes thank you marilee we get really excited about observing the moon around
international germanite each year but this is a jumping off point we uh we
hope that you like us will feel excited to observe all kinds of things in the universe around us not just on october
october 16th 2021 but throughout the year and this is just one great way to
do that next we are going to welcome brandon rodriguez who is a guest from the jet
propulsion laboratories education team brandon is an education specialist i've
had the privilege and the opportunity to be in one of his education workshops and it was just great i'm so excited you're
here with us today brandon i'll turn it over to you yeah awesome thanks so much so good to
see you again it's been like way too long too many years why did you leave california we miss you
um my name is brandon rodriguez i work at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory uh in
los angeles california um super excited to be here i i have been just kind of
listening uh on over here on the side and i think it's really exciting how
many people kind of have this union of the science that's
being done and then just kind of the just the awe and the wonder of just looking at the images we saw these
awesome pictures earlier um of the moon around rome and it means beautiful uh and i i think it's really
cool to at the same time think that there's still science to be done and uh i think that's why i'm so excited about
uh you know this this idea of international observed the moon night as well as being able to speak to you guys
today so um i just as a very quick background have a
just the most lucky position in the world because i get to be a scientist and a teacher uh so i still
teach high school physics which is crazy to me um but i i work at nasa as well and i get
to work with teachers and students all over the world and and kind of bring cool activities and uh resources to them
so i wanted to show you guys a few of those and i thought uh in the in the theme of everything that we're doing
today maybe i could share my screen really quick and tell you that
in fact uh earlier this year i was very much observing the moon and i was observing
it from the most wild place on the sofia observatory so sophia as you can see
here looks like a a normal plane that you might take to travel but as you can see in the middle
there is actually a door that opens and a three meter
telescope is actually observing out as you're flying which is just just insane
think about how uh incredibly specific every every motion
needs to be to be able to make sure that you are looking at something like the moon without rocking around and being
able to collect images so it's a really really amazing high-tech device and we were actually observing the moon
looking for water so here are just a couple pictures here's me trying to look cool and being excited and then on the
right much more nervous as we were taking off so that was a the coolness quickly subsided
but the telescope from the inside looks like this and what you can see is uh that it's
effectively like in a in a cylinder and it rotates all the way around
so this is a giant counterweight and you have computers everywhere and you have these little like shock absorbers if you
will to make sure that nothing rattles around um and we were out looking for
for ice uh in craters of the moon and found it uh which is really really exciting so we're trying to find
resources on the moon so that the moon could serve as a little bit of a gateway of a jump
off point if we ever want to really explore the solar system like perhaps to
mars or beyond we need to have a means of a nice low gravity base in space for
those operations to take place and that means resources so um as you guys kind of you know to
the students watching uh get a chance to explore the moon remember again that we
explore it both because it's beautiful and exciting but we also explore it scientifically as well um so i actually
had some students uh prepare this project these are some middle school kids um
that uh kind of made a cool moon crater project and i encourage you guys to to do the same what they were doing was
they just made a little uh you know a baking sheet with flour and cocoa and
sprinkles and stuff like that to simulate the moon and then they asked well are craters always round or how deep do
they go how steep is the angle so what they did is they took different rocks
different shaped rocks and they kind of dropped them onto the moon they had these asteroid impacts on the moon uh
from different angles and different strengths um and they just kind of observed to see
what kind of impacts you get
pretty neat uh so you know again you'll see them kind of go through different angles and and play with different rock
sizes and this is a good way to kind of simulate the you know multi-billion year
history of the moon to get a feel for why is it shaped this way why are there these deep craters and why do they still
have water in them thank goodness because we're gonna need it if we're ever going to build a lunar base
um i'll point out that again the moon itself is not where we want to
stop right we want to explore further and we do that with very cool robotic scientific equipment
like this guy here out of out of my lab the perseverance rover which landed on mars uh just earlier this year in
february uh and here is its twin uh this is the engineering model which we still do
driving tests on as we're kind of just operating a nice stationary turn
and i'll even point out to you guys just get a feel even though you can see some of my colleagues in the back just so you can see just how big this is i brought
you a wheel so this is one of the this is one of the wheels of the rover
so just for a picture of scale six of these about half the size of me
um aluminum on the outside titanium on the inside and about uh 40 pounds so
that's that's my exercise for the day for sure um so again if we ever want to explore the
moon further with rovers or we want to explore more of mars with rovers or
places like titan and enceladus all these other other moons don't forget there are so many other very exciting
moons in our solar system uh that i very much want to observe i would love to send some missions to um and that's
really some of the cool science that jpl is doing is um exploring moons of saturn
and jupiter uh and you know these places that have water or volcanoes and uh so
so much exciting uh geology so i'm excited for you guys observe the
moon that you can see uh and then go and get an awesome degree in science and
obser start observing the moons even further away because i think that's where the real the real excitement starts
so the last thing i'll say since i'm almost out of time is you can find so many activities at
this website this is the website that my colleagues and i maintain full of activities for teachers if you click up
here on this teach section you're going to see like lesson planned activities um already on pdf already have answer keys
and assessments and everything's just already made for you so that you're ready to to deliver it to your students
but to to kids out there if you want to explore this learn section right here this is where you'll see activities like
that moon craters um i was just doing one last night with some students where we are making little
rubber band powered rovers so it's kind of like an old hot wheels car if you if you remember and uh it's got a rubber
band and you can wind it up and let it drive off so we were trying to race to see who could who could make uh the best
rover drive across the backyard so again so many cool opportunities and i i
encourage you guys to you know be in awe of the moon it's beautiful and amazing but think about it not just from
uh the beauty of it but from the scientific promise of it as well i think it's gonna be really really exciting as
you guys get older and uh come work at nasa with with people like me and marley
and um we're waiting we're waiting for you guys to have cool careers alongside us so thank you guys so much i really
appreciate your time thank you brandon that is great there are so many great resources right there
on that website we use it all the time um it's really fun to be able to get out and start doing public engagement again
i'm so excited thanks for joining us that's great uh all right up next we have a whole
team from the lunar and planetary institute i want to introduce the manager for uh education and public
engagement christine shupla who's here hi christine hey everyone
they're so glad oh we're so glad to have you thank you um cherelle webb is joining us as the
public engagement lead and also yolanda ballard is here as the program coordinator and they have some great hey
keep your eyes on the road we've got you here um we have a great video from
this team and i think if uh scott if you can pull that one up we will
kick us off with that and then hear from them absolutely let's go ahead and get started the activity that you're about
to see is called splat and you'll you'll let's let's share with you a little bit about the activity
okay i think i have it so hi
i'm katrina clipper hi my name is cameron hill
hi my name is gwen foster and this is my daughter hi i'm elle
thank you all so much all right so we're starting with our splat activity please go ahead and hold up the water balloon
so we can see your water balloons yeah um can any of you tell me how how
how wide are your water balloons how big are they five inches five inches seven and awesome so we've
got a five inch water balloon and a seven inch water balloon okay whenever you are
let's um let's start by on the count of why don't we do a countdown why don't we do a countdown for five seconds
four three two one everybody throw your water balloon we
gotta drop
sometimes it takes a few times for it to break so now let's take a look at this flat
can you all show me how big your splats are on the ground how big are the splats
how wide are your splats does anybody want to estimate how wide your splats are
big big mind big real is it a lot bigger than
five inches any idea how many times bigger it is
than the five inches or seven inches
three three three times bigger okay
how many times bigger just flat than the balloon
ten times bigger for mine about ten times bigger okay so at least three and maybe as much as ten
times bigger when an asteroid hits the moon or mars or
another planet do you think the asteroid just sits there on the ground or do you think it breaks up into pieces like your
water balloon did break up absolutely it breaks up into pieces and
do you think that do you think the hole that it makes in the ground is the same size as the asteroid or do you think it might be a
lot bigger than the asteroid a lot bigger you're exactly right you're exactly
right any final thoughts what you all did a great job thank you
so much let's see everybody's wonderful faces one last time did you see so
this is a really fun activity that you can do with kids and with adults uh who
doesn't like water balloons right you just need an outside space or maybe a patio space
but the idea here is you can do this activity maybe with the activity that we just saw right we just saw an activity
with crater boxes where you're dropping materials into a box but in addition to that
this activity shows a different aspect of the model of craters so we are seeing
a little bit more about craters and how they work this way we're finding out
that you can um you can when you have an impact initially they
weren't really sure what was happening right they thought that maybe the impact would cause uh parts of the asteroid to
be left there and that's why they mined out meteor craters so extensively they were looking for pieces of an asteroid
but in fact it gets destroyed largely it gets vaporized you get a few pieces here and there but it's largely destroyed so
unlike the the first activity where you get to see features of a crater quite nicely in
this activity you don't see many of the features of the crater but you see that the the impactor the asteroid or the
comet that ran into the moon that runs into other planets is destroyed and you
also get to measure the dimensions uh and you can do it with lots of water balloons and take multiple examples here
it should be about ten times wider ideally so uh yes thank you marile uh it's it's i
like both of these activities very much they're fun to do together we've got a few minutes and we thought we'd spend
just a few minutes talking about craters on the moon and so let's go ahead and
show you some pictures here uh orientale basin of course is a type of crater that's very large and it has multiple
rings around it you can see so some craters some of the biggest ones have multiple rings and orientale and many of
the largest ones have since been flooded in with basalt lava after the initial
impact formed those nice round features that we see for the sea of tranquility and things like that but in addition to
that there's other types of craters as well there's some that are smaller often the ones that are really bright tend to
be the ones that are the newest ones because over time on the moon the moon gets darker because of interaction with
particles from the sun so so the really bright ones tend to be the youngest ones some of them are complex where they have
those mountains in the middle and these craters also are revealing things
about the moon and about its structure and what lies underneath and so each crater tells us more about the moon
about the composition about what's happened uh we can use this craters and and study uh the fingerprints of
spectroscopy to tell us more about the composition at the top and the bottom and anything that's been excavated and
thrown out we have scientists who've been studying the moon studying impacts studying craters all over the place
and we wanted to let you know a little bit more about this so we're happy to have any questions from you uh we also
wanted to uh let you know where you can find these the splat activity with the balloon exploding is at lpi's website
there's also lots more information about impact craters and we hope that you'll consider doing some of these with your
family and friends and with your audiences if you're doing programs for international observe the moon night
easy doesn't use a whole lot of materials so um i'm going to stop sharing for just a
couple of seconds and see if we have any questions or comments and vivian do you have anything that you want to add
shirelle yolanda do either of you have anything you want to add
i was just going to say we put those links in the chat so you should see them coming up thank you so much christine
that they look like they were having such a good time there's water balloons are such a treat especially um in the
evening when it gets when it's been a hot day exactly exactly uh so much fun to do and
um thank you cherelle for for helping us to connect with this these wonderful families who recorded this with us this
week so that we'd have it for tonight and thank you so much for joining us
even on a saturday it's great to see you great to see you all as well happy global moon party
party on thanks christine we will um feel free to
pass notes on in the chat and if you have any questions that's a great place to put them thank you all so much that's
awesome um next up we have a really lovely guest
we've got dr john baubert joining us from slu.org and um we have two really cool videos
from him first is an introduction to a really lovely teachers program that they have um and i'll actually just let him
introduce himself and tell you all about that welcome john thank you so much for being for having
me on during this global moon party i'm so happy to be here and talking with everybody
and celebrating this the nearest celestial neighbor to us i think the moon is how a lot of us got
hooked i love hearing that from gianluca earlier um scott i think we've got a video lined
up to go here all right let's see about that greetings are you excited for tonight's
2021 international observe the moon night kickoff party i sure am my name is
dr john h bover and i'm the director of curriculum at slu a vibrant community of students educators and astronomers
sharing their knowledge and discoveries of the universe using an arsenal of powerful robotic telescopes at premier
observatories in both hemispheres slu provides a direct means for students to connect with the universe and fosters a
spirit of collaborative citizen science from the next generation i'm speaking to you all from las vegas
nevada but tonight you'll be enjoying the views of a young crescent moon from
our flagship observatory in the institute of astrophysics of the canary islands located on the island of
tinifree off the northwestern coast of africa we are currently looking through slough's canary 2 ultrawide field
telescope just to let you know slu's southern observatory hemisphere is in la
deja chile in association with the catholic university of chile i also want to give a shout out to
anybody who knows a teacher or educator or knows a parent who has a child at school basically anybody in education if
you know anybody in education or related to somebody who knows somebody in education please hop on over to slu.org
slu.org has free student accounts for classrooms and light polluted areas ready and waiting to connect your
students with the stars this grant aims to help one million students nationwide experience the
wonder of space from their classrooms and home computers now it's a very ambitious goal but you
know the saying if you shoot for the moon and miss you'll land among the stars you can learn more about the slu
space exploration grant at slu.org school we'll be back next week on nasa
tv to provide live views of the moon during the international observe the moon night's main event
until then enjoy the lunar views
hey don thank you so much that's a good reminder that next week on nasa tv we'll be
uh on international observer the moon night um the 16th we will have a
live broadcast then as well so not here but on nasa tv um
thank you so much what a cool program and i'm so excited to get all the teachers looking at the moon i also want
to thank you for sharing an almost live mooncast this was recorded just a few
hours ago because the moon has set where the telescope is it got pretty low in the sky so that is one of the problems
with starting a moon party the week before the international observe the moon night is not ideally situated for
observing but all this week in the evening you will have great views of the moon make sure to check that out
um john do you have anything else you want to say before we play the story no that thank you so much again for uh
letting me come on here and talk a little bit to everybody and i really hope that we enjoy the the inca lunar
myth this is an amazing video that um uh miltonville royale has put has
recorded for us and i want to share this all with you thank you john for making this happen
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hello dr john bolver from slu again next an educator and slew ambassador milton
villarreal we'll share an inca myth about our moon titled el doroso
zoro ilaluna inca or in english the crushing love of the fox in the inca
moon enjoy
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accounts for classrooms and light polluted areas to connect your students with the stars ready and waiting for you
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thank you gun so much that is beautiful you're welcome i hope you really enjoyed that myth i i can tell you every time i
look at the moon after putting this together i i can see a talk up there
and thanks to milton i see you're joining us online i appreciate that story so much it was really beautiful
um all right thank you i hope you all have a wonderful time observing this week
scott i think i'm turning it over to you is that true i think you are okay so we
will we'll start this video with amy kaminsky hi scott thanks for having me today my
name is amy kaminsky and i lead nasa's public prize competitions challenges and
crowdsourcing efforts where we look for people outside of nasa to help us solve our toughest challenges with
out-of-the-box solutions i'm really excited to talk with you about how you can get involved in nasa's missions
we conduct public prize competitions and challenges at nasa to bring forward unique solutions and to diversify
participation as we look for clever ways to explore the solar system sustain human space travelers build more robust
aircraft and more we value the different perspectives that can be brought to bear on these nasa
undertakings by companies outside of the aerospace industry and by people everywhere
our work creates solutions to problems and brings visibility to our participants often leading to
investments from outside and supporting the growth of markets beyond aerospace
we've run hundreds of challenges to date and thousands of people worldwide have been able to participate
our challenges are open to teams and individuals and we offer cash prizes that vary in size along with non-cash
awards and benefits right now we have several moon related competitions open that will benefit the
artemis program that you can participate in or follow along with the big idea challenge invites student
teams to develop robots that don't move with wheels we're looking for robots that can hop float or fly
up to eight teams will win development awards of up to one hundred eighty thousand dollars
two other student challenges are coming up in just a few weeks lunobotics and lunobotics jr
both are looking at excavating on the moon and challenging students to design unique concepts for excavators that can
operate in lunar gravity in this challenge college students can win scholarship money while grade school
students could win an opportunity to meet with the director of nasa's kennedy space center
we're also planning the next phases of our watts on the moon challenge and our break the ice lunar challenge
in watts on the moon we're looking for teams to demonstrate energy distribution management and storage technologies for
upcoming lunar missions 4.5 million dollars in awards are on the line in the break the ice challenge
we're again looking at excavating on the moon we are asking teams to demonstrate their approaches for digging up icy
regolith and delivering resources to a central location there are many other competitions in
planning right now and we're looking for your participation if you are looking for a way to get
involved and contribute to the exciting work happening at nasa this is your ticket
if you're interested keep an eye on nasa.gov solve s-o-l-v-e
where we post all of our competitions and crowdsourcing opportunities thank you so much for having me and enjoy
celebrating observe the moon night
thanks amy it was really lovely for her to have a chance to share that with us she is um
uh works with the nasa artemis prizes challenges and crowdsourcing programs
and there are so many ways to get involved observing the moon and and thinking of
wonderful creative ways to explore space so i really appreciate that um
i want to introduce two of my favorite humans on earth uh and uh who have some
really cool other ways to observe the moon and uh do some science with that um
from the astronomical league we've got erin clevelandson who's joining us from texas yes houston
texas houston texas thank you and john goss as well these are two gentlemen who
have been instrumental in some of these observing programs and they have one that they'd like to share with you tonight so i'll let you all take it away
thanks for joining well thank you very much vivian and i'm going to let john
take the stage in a little bit but i want to start out by sharing our screen
maybe there we go um
so yes we are from the astronomical league and we have actually more than one
observing program we'd like to share with you tonight so first let me tell you a little bit about us
i'm an observing program director with the astronomical league and also program coordinator for some of our observing
programs john goss who's the other person with me tonight is a past president of the
astronomical league and he also is a program coordinator and more on the programs in a little bit
so roughly what i want to look at is a little advice for observing the moon then we'll discuss the observe the moon
night and then we're going to discuss the astronomically observing programs related to the moon because there are a number of programs that are available
so john let me pass it off to you oh wait let me do one more slide first
the question i wanted to address was why the moon yeah we've heard lots of wonderful things tonight about all the
really cool things you can do with the moon and how wonderful it really is to observe
but from my perspective the reason we want to look at the moon is it's our nearest celestial neighbor everybody
else is a good bit further away and it's available and easy to observe every month it's always there and if you
missed something this month you can catch it next month and the really cool thing is it's easily
visible with just your eyes you don't have to have binoculars or a telescope which means anybody can do it any night
the new moon is up when the weather cooperates so now to you john
all righty thank you aaron uh before i talk about the bottle cap projector i'd
like to say a few more words about the moon and the observing programs you know we we have a rather
select um exclusive group of people who have walked on the moon about 12 people have
done that we have about 24 people who have orbited the moon
now with the astronomical league has has a number of observing programs uh focused on the
moon and really the whole purpose of that is to enable people
uh for themselves to go to the moon by using their their telescopes once they complete these programs they will have
seen many of the same sites that the astronauts have seen they will have seen
craters large and small vast basaltic planes they will have seen mountains they will have seen
rills they will have seen volcanic domes and so on many many many things if you
use your telescope you can see these things
it's enough enough at preaching right now to talk about what we call here the bottle cap projector i got this uh
information really from uh fred schafe back in about the year 2000 he was
discussing this and then guy atwell picked it up in his astronomical calendar
very simple concept of what to do here if you drill a hole in an opaque object
such as a bottle cap a hole of 16th inch diameter
look at that hold that up to your eye and look at the moon look at at a full moon
because this hole is only about a sixteenth of an inch in diameter it cuts down the light dramatically i
think about only four percent of the light is let let through that that would normally enter your eyes pupil
so that means the glare from the bright full moon is cut down substantially
but even more important or just as important um the only light that's led into your eye
is is it goes through the center portion of your eye where most of your optical defects in
your vision don't lie astigmatism generally lies around the outside portion of your eye for instance
so your visual acuity will be increased substantially so believe it or not straight or
strangely enough that if you uh take a bottle cap like this with that 16th of an inch hole
16th of an inch hole in it and point it towards the moon hold it up to your eye and point it towards the moon
you will see a greatly reduced moon there will be hardly any glare in
it uh your visual acuity will be substantial so you'll be able to easily see the the various mario on the moon
uh for a quick project though uh you could draw draw the moon as you see it with um the uh mari cresceum off on the
eastern side of the moon come back a few a week later or the next
month or so and you do it again and you will see that the gap between them
eastern edge of the mari and the uh limb of the moon will have
changed a little bit so you will be seeing the effects of lunar vibration just by using this so-called bottle cap
projector it's really easy to do you don't want to have anything really smaller than a 16th of an inch if you go
down to a 30 second the moon just becomes way way too dim
if you go up to an eighth of an inch or so you will be letting in uh more more
light obviously but also more light in the outer portion of your eye and your acuity will drop considerably so 16
seems to be the sweet spot for this this project and how anybody can do it so the
next time that you're out there in the in the full doesn't have to be full moon but it has to be a bright moon uh
try this and it that is really cool uh now on the next slide which hopefully
aaron will click for me thank you um i have a little story to tell which i
think a lot of seasoned amateur astronomers as well as beginning amherst astronomers can relate
to you know you're out there uh with with some friends um it's somebody else's
house you don't have your own telescope they have a telescope that they haven't used for quite a while it's in the
closet so that and and the moon is out and they they want to look at the moon since you're the
astronomer they're really kind of looking at you to do this so they get the telescope out set it up
it may have a finder scope on it may not if it does have a finder perhaps it's way out of whack as far as
alignment goes so you're expected to find the moon now if if you have never
found the moon before with a telescope uh let me assure you it's not a snap it's not it's not easy to do you just
don't point your telescope and you got the moon the moon is only what half a degree in
size pretty small really pretty small area of the sky so it's hard to to point your telescope initially right
at the moon but an easy way of doing this because remember all your friends are standing
there looking at you you're the astronomer you know what to do and you're looking like an idiot because you
can't find the moon well i mean the moon's the brightest thing in the sky how can you not find it well you
get behind the telescope point it up to the moon to where you think it should be you might be really lucky and the moon
might be and you feel the view of the eyepiece but probably it's not easy thing to do is take out the
eyepiece look down the focus or tube uh try to center your eye in the focus focus for
two and when you look down at the if it's a reflecting telescope at the mirror uh at the primary mirror you'll
see the glow of the moon
left or right up or down or so to place the glow with the bright glow of the moon close to that second reflection
that you're going to be seeing um then all you gotta do is put the eyepiece back in and there's the moon so
instead of taking you know five minutes of excuses and kind of embarrassment before you zero in on on this thing well
you can do it within 15 seconds and your reputation is maintained
so that's something to think about uh try it next time um you don't even have
to have friends around you try it in the privacy of your own home set your telescope outside and try to do it like this
you can also uh do it for finding a venus or jupiter something that's fairly bright in the
sky something that you can see down through your focus or tube on onto your primary mirror and be able to zero it in
that way so uh go go ahead and try that that's what i got that we're from the astronomical league and we just want to
make astronomy more accessible to people and give them some satisfaction in finding it and you don't get much satisfaction
if all your friends are kind of laughing behind your back when you can't find the moon so this will help things out believe me
so thank you for your time and listening to that that's what i have okay thank you john um
i have a few more things i need to cover i see we're already out of time so i'm going to talk fairly quickly to try to
get these points across uh the first thing we want to talk about is joining the party so we do have observed the
moon night coming up and we want to encourage people to go out there and actually observe the moon from all
around the world of course it is on the 16th host an event or just personally observe
whatever is important to you and working in conjunction with the international observe the moon knight
team we have put together a certificate which is available and available for download so if you go out and observe
print yourself a certificate put your name on it and uh relish in the joy of what you did how
wonderful it was if you happen to be lucky enough to be hosting an event even if it's for just your family or perhaps the neighborhood
then we encourage you to get a download of the certificate as well and go ahead and print copies out for them as well so
there's the website uh it's the astronomical league version but that's the website where the certificate's
available for download this is what certificate looks like i'm just going to skip over that because i'm
really out of time but we also have a second option so in the past the astronomical league has
worked with nasa to come up with something we call nasa observing challenges and we have done that again
for this one international observe the moon night so there are some requirements but it is
open to all you do not have to be a member of the astronomical league to participate so you observe the moon and we give you
about a week to do it the reason you can't start before the 15th is some of the features we want you to find aren't
available until you get a fairly good gibbous moon so you do have to wait till the 15th which of course is the day
before but then we also you can go for about a week after that and still get all the features that you need to get
sketch what you see with just your eyes uh do an outreach activity so this does not necessarily mean an outreach event
where you've got people looking through telescopes but do something to share the excitement of observing the moon with
other people uh so do that activity and then submit your information to the
coordinator and we do have a deadline so by november 22nd i am the coordinator so uh my information is on this website
uh but if you want more information on that at the astronomical league website uh just check it out and it tells you
everything i'm gonna tell you uh but in a much at your own much more at your own pace
so what do we want you to look at we have a list of more than 10 items and the requirement is you have to identify
10 of these in your sketch so a bunch of them maria because that's the big dark spots they're very
easy to see but in addition that there's a couple craters that are invisible uh the crater rays from crater copernicus
are also visible and the woman in the moon so we heard about the fox in the moon and had i known we were going to have that story i
probably would have chosen the fox and the moon instead because that's new to me but the woman in the moon is actually
very easy and i think really looks like a woman in the moon so this is a picture of the moon
and this is a picture of the woman in the moon complete with her pigtails you can see her eye her nose her mouth and
her chin so i encourage you all to go out and try to find the woman in the moon
i want to spend also a very brief moment here talking about the observing programs at the astronomical league
so for most of the programs you do need to be a member either through a local astronomy club or as a member at large
and we have close to 75 or so observing programs that cover everything from soup
to nuts however there are four that are very specific related to the moon so i wanted
to just mention those in passing we have a lunar observing program it involves a hundred features it does
require a telescope and it requires you to observe throughout a month or multiple months if
it takes you that long because of weather we also have a binocular lunar observing certificate that is a subset of that
observing program in addition to that we have a lunar 2 observing program which is designed to
make it a little more challenging for you so you have to actually time things you have to plan
observations most of them are paired so you do one when you get a long shadow and then you also do one with a very
short or no shadow to see the difference in what the features look like and then the last one our newest lunar program is
lunar evolution observing and the neat thing is just like the
earth the moon has gone through different phases in its history and you can actually pick out details
and tell what part of that history they belong to based on what they look like and how they interact with other
features so i'm going to stop there i do have one more slide i'm only going to show it to
you because i know we don't really have time for questions but i wanted to look have everybody look at my question mark
because i thought it was cool very nice okay so back to you viviane
aaron and john that's great i had no idea about the looking down the eyepiece that is a great tip thank you so much
and i can't wait to do the lunar observing challenge this year very very excited um and we'll share um
some slides with you at the end about some uh good trivia on the moon that john has
shared with us so thank you both so much we're gonna take a quick break um for
all of us and um and we'll be back in about five minutes uh meanwhile we have
um some great music again oh this time we've got um a video from greg varney coming up is
that what's coming up next scott magnificent desolation magnificent desolation that is it i want to just say
thanks to jamie dupuy who was the original music composer for this and
allowed us to use it so thanks to both uh jamie and gary thank you and uh
and then also combined with that is another uh performance from winsync uh debbie
waltzing on the moon wonderful and uh right so maybe a little bit longer than five
minutes okay seven minutes we'll see you in seven minutes after these right yeah
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but i couldn't hear you just now oh
it's all you at this point fabulous thank you so much for lining up
those lovely selections and for all of the video and audio magic that has been
happening so far tonight scott roberts explore alliance everybody virtual applause yes
so that last piece that we just heard was debbie waltzing on the moon performed by wind sink composed by mark
milletts and the video artist is robin gold before that we saw magnificent desolation with an original soundtrack
by jamie dupries and visual composition by gary barney so huge shout out and thanks to all those artists for sharing
their work with us this evening next up we've got our nasa moon views
hour our final hour of the program and to get that started i am so excited to welcome my colleague stacy t again of
nasa scottard space flight center to provide some highlights from recent and upcoming lunar science over to you stacy
great awesome
there we go all right hi everyone it's so great to be here tonight for this wonderful event
and as kayla mentioned my name is stacy t ken and my role for international observe the moon night is that of
international partnership coordinator which means that i get to work with people all around the world
and for this presentation i'm going to focus on some recent news as it relates to the
moon um but because there's so much that happened this is just a brief overview and as well i'm going to look at what's
ahead in lunar related topics as well so there are a lot of things that happened this year in moon news so this
presentation is by no means a complete account i did however want to bring in a
more international perspective and so we'll highlight some nasa-related moon updates as well as news from other
countries around the world so 2021 uh started out with marking the
50th anniversary of apollo 14. 14 as well as apollo 15 later in the year
so apollo 14 was the third human moon landing and with alan shepard and ed
mitchell setting foot on the lunar surface on february 5th of 1971 almost
10 months after apollo 13's intended landing date and two highlights from this mission
include al shepard hitting two golf balls on the moon at the end of the last moonwalk
and stuart russa bringing hundreds of tree seeds with him to the moon with
many now growing on the earth as moon trees and then the 50th anniversary of apollo
15 followed in july this was the fourth human moon landing and this mission saw the first flight of
the lunar roving vehicle also called the moon buggy and dave scott also demonstrated
galileo's discovery about falling objects in gravity fields when he simultaneously dropped a feather and a
hammer and they both hit the ground at the same time
so this is an especially exciting time for lunar science and exploration nasa's artemis program plans to land the
first woman and first person of color on the moon within the coming years and
features collaborations with commercial and international partners and this will promote equity is
signaling to people around the world that they too can see themselves among the stars
nasa's artemis missions also include sending a suite of new science instruments and technology
demonstrations to study the moon and establishing a long-term presence there
so there have been a lot of developments in the artemis program in 2021 so be
sure to check out the artemis website for the full details which they'll which will be included in the chat box
but i did want to just highlight one particular highlight or update and that's the naming of the mannequin that
will be launching on artemis 1 which is nasa's uncrewed flight test of this
space launch system rocket and orion spacecraft around the moon later this
year or early next year so commander moonikin campos is the
official name of the artemis one mannequin the name campos is a dedication to arturo campos a key player
in bringing apollo 13 safely back to earth
and there have been many developments to the artemis program in the international realm as well
and one of these updates comes from the european space agency or isa
isa is contributing to humankind's return to the moon with its european
service modules that will be incorporated into upcoming artemis missions
so as i mentioned nasa will be launching artemis one from kennedy space center in florida
and this uncrewed mission will carry the orion spacecraft which will incorporate
esa's european service module which was built and tested by airbus bremen in
germany with the help of 10 european nations
and then another international development for the artemis program comes from the canadian space agency
canadarm 3 will be canada's contribution to nasa's gateway which is a vital component of artemis that will serve as
a multi-purpose outpost orbiting the moon canada canadarm3's highly autonomous
robotic system will use cutting-edge software to perform tests around the moon without the need for human
intervention this next next generation canadian robotic system will be designed to
maintain repair and inspect the gateway capture visiting vehicles and enable science
both in lunar orbit and on the surface of the moon among other tasks
and the lunar reconnaissance orbiter is my next topic and it's nasa's flagship
mission at the moon and i know andrea jones mentioned this at the beginning of the broadcast but it's actually what
helped start international observe the moon night and it's been orbiting the moon for over 10 years
lro is building on the legacy of apollo and is reshaping our understanding of
our nearest neighbor in space and it's helping us prepare for the next phase in human exploration of the moon through
the artemis program using data from lro lunar prospector and
the moon mineralogy mapper instrument on board indriya's chandrayaan-1 spacecraft
scientists have identified likely location locations for nasa's artemis missions to
find and collect pieces of the moon's mantle and the team of scientists generated
this map that i'm showing now which shows the thorium concentration across the vast south pole aitkin basin which
is on the lunar far side and it reveals the distribution of mantle materials that were violently
ejected during this basin forming impact high thorium areas are shown in red with
purple and gray representing lower abundances and you can see two craters in the northwestern region of the basin
that are exhibiting especially high thorium abundance and this suggests the presence of
abundant mantle materials that are currently exposed on the surface there and these precious rocks born deep
within the moon can help us understand how our moon and other rocky worlds evolved
now let's take a look at what's coming up in lunar related news so nasa is currently working with
several american companies to deliver science and technology to the lunar surface through the commercial lunar
payloads services initiative also called clips because we love acronyms
so this program enables the quick acquisition acquisition of lunar delivery services from companies to
bring an assortment of robotic payloads to the moon's surface the first eclipse instruments are
planned for launch early next year and i won't go through them all but they do include payloads from astrobotic
intuitive machines firefly aerospace and mastin space systems
so one of the eclipse missions heading to the moon is called viper for the volatiles investigating polar
exploration rover part of the artemis program viper will launch in 2023 for delivery to the moon
by astrobotic's griffin lander viper is nasa's first mobile robotic
mission to the moon and will land near the western edge of nobile crater at the moon's south pole
and it will map and explore the region's surface and subsurface for water and other resources
and now moving on to some more international moon news the korea pathfinder lunar orbiter is
south korea's first lunar mission and it will be equipped with five payloads developed in korea and one payload
developed by nasa it's scheduled to launch in august of 2022 with the goals of developing
original lunar exploration technologies demonstrating a space internet and
conducting conducting scientific investigations of the lunar environment topography and resources
the smart lander for investigating moon or slim is a japan aerospace exploration agency
mission designed to demonstrate accurate lunar landing techniques by a small spacecraft slim is a mission for
researching the pinpoint landing technology necessary for future lunar probes and verifying this on the surface
of the moon with a small scale probe slim is scheduled to launch as a ride
share payload with the x-ray imaging and spectroscopy mission in 2022 from japan
and those are just a few of the moon updates from this year and i wanted to thank you all so much for your attention
and you can actually find an expanded version of this presentation on moon.nasa.gov
at the link that will be included in the chat so thank you
yes thank you so much stacy for joining us with those updates that's really
exciting stuff and like stacy said there's much more to explore so we'll be adding some more links in the chat as we
move forward here next up we are going to get to hear from
someone whose real job title is visualizer uh but whose job could also be described as
literally transporting us to other worlds via amazing data science and that
person is ernie wright of nasa's scientific visualization
studio so ernie i'll turn it over to you thank you for being here all right
i i always feel bad when i make other people say scientific visualization studio because it's kind of a mouthful
we always just say svs and
stacy mentioned moon trees there is a moon tree
in front of the visitor center at uh goddard where i work
although i haven't been there in a couple of years visitor center has been closed for obvious reasons and i hope it's still there
but that's kind of a cool legacy of apollo 14. so i make pictures of the moon based on
the data that we get primarily from lunar reconnaissance orbiter i've been working with lro since it launched in
2009 and this is what it looks like in orbit this
this image was actually made by my friend chris meeny but all the other things that you'll see are things that i
made just to give you an idea of what lro has been able to accomplish it's a mapping
mission it's it's mapping the surface of the moon from orbit and
what i'm showing right now is a computer model of the surface of the moon based on the best information
we had before lro went there and this is how that has changed based
on data from just lro's first two years this is schrodinger basin which is a an
impact feature near the south pole and something this topography allows us to do now
is in conjunction with another mission called grail map the mass distribution the gravity
beneath the surface and this tells us something about the composition of the crust and how thick it is and
a lot of things about the energy of impacts like this so it's it's a bunch of data that i get to play
with all the time one of the things i've done that that some people in the audience might be
familiar with is this annual moon phase and libration uh visualization
i happen to have here what the moon looks like right now or maybe 15 minutes ago
um and a week from now it's going to look like this um on the
night of international observance night um this is particularly interesting to
me because the libration very much favors the northeast quadrant of the moon that's in
the upper right corner of the image that you're looking at and so you'll get a very good view of
marihamboltianum and some of the other features that are normally not very visible
on that side because the moon has our view of the moon at least has
changed a little bit and allowed that edge to become a little bit more exposed overall
although we see the same face of the moon we see about 59 percent of it not just
50 percent because of this sort of optical vibration this this apparent wobbling in
the moon so one of the other things i've been able to do is map
solar eclipses this is from the total solar eclipse from 2017
and i hope some of you had an opportunity to travel to the path of totality and actually see that happen because it was a really cool thing i
happened to be in nebraska but i put up oregon here one of the things i discovered while
mapping this and this had been found by my friend michael zeiler a few years earlier is that the
shape of the shadow is not a smooth oval it's this sort of polygon shape
and i'm in the process of writing something up that will explain why that happens but it's basically because
the moon isn't a smooth sphere the mountains and valleys in the moon
either block or allow the sun to come through for just a couple more seconds and that
changes the shape of the shadow on the ground the shadow also interacts with the terrain
and something i was able to do when i made these maps is calculate the shadows um taking into
account the effect of you know the cascades and the rockies as
the shadow passed over them um it makes little ruffles in that shape it's pretty cool
so hopefully if you whether or not you were able to see the 2017 eclipse i hope some of you are
preparing to travel to see the eclipse in 2024. um i'm going to be in texas
visiting with my sister who's about 30 miles outside the path
and you know i can't think of a more exciting interesting thing to see um as a as a
natural phenomenon particularly for sky watchers a thing that happens during
the day then a total solar eclipse is just very cool so stacy also mentioned that we're
sending both people and robots to the moon and in particular to the south
pole something i just worked on was the announcement of the landing site for
viper that that stacy described and this is
still from an animation that i made that sort of zooms up on that landing site
that square in the middle is 10 kilometers on a side about 6 miles on a side
and that's the area that viper is going to explore something i'm doing more broadly is sort
of illumination studies of the surface of the moon near the south pole because
that's a place that's unlike any place else even on the earth the sun never gets more than a degree
and a half above the horizon um and the earth kind of stays in the same place
it sort of bobs up and down but if you're standing on the surface at the south pole the earth is upside down
that's south america that you can see in that picture and rotating backwards
so the environment there is very different when we send both robots and people there we're going
to have to figure out how to deal with the fact that the sun is never very high half the time it's below the horizon
uh we may be designing um epas and and operations on the surface
that rely more on earth shine the reflected light from the earth because the earth is
40 to 75 times brighter than the full moon but you know you have to take into account
what phase the earth is in and whether it's a cloudy day which makes it brighter
and honestly we're not a hundred percent sure that um people in particular are
going to be able to operate in the dim light of the reflected earth so that's something that we're continuing to look
into and i'm continuing to sort of visualize the lighting conditions to try to
speak to that so i thought i would give everybody a
little heads up about how i do this chris meaney made that picture of lro
because my modeling skills are not great if it doesn't involve wrapping something on a sphere i'm not sure what i'm doing
but this is how i make a moon i start with this map of the color of the moon
this has every point on the surface illuminated at the same sun angle and then i
add to that a map of elevation and in this image
the bright areas are very high and the dark areas are very low
you can kind of see it's a it's a funny shape you can see how low the entire south pole ache and
basin is at the left and right edges the bottom of that map
it's one of the biggest impact features in solar system and the software that i use
knows how to wrap these two maps onto a sphere and
then all i have to do is calculate where is the sun where's the earth where are the things that i want to show and it will automatically figure out
the shadow the shading the lighting conditions and that's how i make a lot of the
most of the imagery of the moon that i make the good news is that i've released both
of these onto the svs website in fact everything that i've shown you
is on the svs website i'll tell you about that in just a second but i want to show you too what my software looks like
in the upper right it's showing me the sphere with the moon maps wrapped onto it and all the other stuff is
what you know telling the software how to paint the surface and how to add that
illumination or the elevation map so that it can accurately depict the shadows
this is the home page of the svs website and
i encourage everybody to go there and check it out we have thousands of uh videos and it's not just about the
moon i happen to be the moon guy in the studio but there's a lot of earth science and
you know all kinds of cool nasa stuff there i feel very fortunate working in the svs
and also working with the with the lro team that includes caylen stacy
i get to deal with uh you know this really excellent data i get to interact with
people who are very good at communication and and telling the public about what we do
because that's basically my job is to take the data and exhibit it in ways that educate people about what nasa is
doing and i also get to interact with scientists who are actually you know working with the spacecraft and
collecting the data and and forming it into things that can be used by other people
so if you'd like to make your own moon you can go to the svs website and
look for something called the cgi moon kit it's currently one of the most popular stories which makes it easy to find you
just click on that most popular stories link at the bottom but this will give you the maps that you
would need to use in your own 3d software to me to make moons at any time
in the past in the future and you can do that with free software too
there's free 3d software out there so you don't have to make a big investment and that's my little deal that's my
spiel awesome many thanks ernie for that peek
into the amazing world of data visualization i know
dave prosper who has been helping us with links and chat all night
has been pushing some links to those visualizations out across our streaming channels so if you're out there watching
and you would like to see more please do check those out they're really beautiful and and very very informative and so
glad to hear from you about those today ernie thank you again for coming with us here and uh thanks everyone who's still out
there hanging out with us we're so glad to be here with you we're going to hear now from marina
gemma who is a phd student at the american museum of natural history and
you all just heard a little bit from ernie about data visualization marina is going to show you an interactive data
visualization software that is available to you open for your use and we will transfer
over to marina now welcome marina thanks for being here
hi kayla thanks for having me
and scott would we be able to spotlight both marina and open space for this
segment let's see let's do marina first
okay and what is the other one open space
it's another video feed in this one
ah well
sorry to make things difficult for you no no that's okay we will get to the ritual moon with you
marina
shall we do a good old session everyone turn off their videos and we go to gallery view i don't know that i have
open space as a video oh so marina is logged in twice and one
of our zoom guests is named open space ah okay thank you
thank you let me see
i see it now there we go this is a first okay for me here we go
thank you scott yep you can also take me away i don't need to be on screen necessarily but
um okay thanks for sticking through some technical difficulties uh like kayla said my name is marina and i'm based at
the american museum of natural history in new york city and
just on the other screen right now you should be seeing a nighttime view of the new york city
area which is where i'm based and i'm showing you this view using the
open space software so um kind of similar to what ernie was
talking about this is the data visualization software and it's a free open source program
that's funded by nasa and developed out of the natural history museum where i work
so it originally was developed as a planetarium software but it's scalable
to all different platforms so from your laptop screen to a classroom projector
all the way up to a planetarium dome and it takes all different kinds of data
sets from nasa and visualizes them so you can interactively explore the universe so it'll take you from the
surface of the earth all the way out to the cosmic microwave background which is essentially the edge of the universe
but today we're going to be exploring the moon and i'm so excited to be here with you all
to do that so now that we're kind of looking at the nighttime view of earth we're going to flip around
and start to explore the moon so i'll take us over
to the moon now and you're seeing a dark moon because you're seeing the
moon as it would appear in the night sky tonight so it's in the waxing crescent phase
um and it's cloudy here in new york so i can't see the moon tonight unfortunately
but the fun thing about open space is that you can visualize it as it would appear in your sky
but so we can better explore the surface i'm going to turn off the shading on the
moon so the entire near side is now illuminated for us and this is going to make looking at all
the features on its surface a little bit easier so
one of the cool things about open space is that you can look at different kinds of data
and you guys have already seen topographic data sets but i'm just going
to show you one more so this is a topographic data set of the
moon and so the brighter colors the greens and yellows correspond to higher
altitude terrain and the blues and the purples correspond to lower altitude terrain
so you'll see that the bottoms of the craters are always darker in color than the rims that's because they're lower in
altitude so i can pan around the moon and now
we're approaching the far side of the moon and you'll see earth come into view any
second now right there and i'll just stop here briefly to show that the far side of the
moon is much more cratered than the near side of the moon and so this topographic data set really emphasizes that
so if especially in teaching if you ever need to kind of go over more difficult
concepts that are easier to explain with visuals open space is a
great tool to do that so i'll swing around to the nearest side
again and take you down to the surface of the moon
to explore the apollo 17 landing site
so i'm going to focus on
the taurus littrow valley which is where the apollo 17 mission
landed and you'll notice as i'm zooming in
the data initially looks a little pixelated and this is because open space
is continually pulling these data sets down over the web
and rendering them in real time so depending on how big the data set that
you're looking at is it could take some time to load but once it does you'll get the full
detail of whatever data set you're hoping to look at so i'll zoom in here on the landing site
of apollo 17 and actually before i do that what i want to point out
is that we have multiple different data sets layered on top of each other right here
so we have the initial
global data set of the moon that we're looking at and then we have a smaller scale usgs map
and then an even smaller scale data set here and so that's that's another benefit of open space is that you can
look at multiple data sets at the same time and toggle between them as you see fit
so we're zooming down right now to the landing site of apollo 17
and what you'll notice is the lunar module right there kind of in
the center in the brighter area and we actually have a 3d model of it
coming down and touching the surface you can change time and open space as
well which is cool because any kind of time-dependent phenomena
that you wanted to show such as you know phases of the moon or the landing of the apollo missions
you can move through time and show that as well but i'm going to zoom down to the surface for now
and show you guys right where the lunar module landed here in the center
if you look really closely you can see the tracks made by the apollo 17 rovers
so lots of different data that it's integrating here and i'll show you one more
cool thing that we have and that is
photogrammetry of boulders from the apollo 17 excursions
so i will show you guys station six
so this is just the name of this particular area that the astronauts traveled to
and what you'll notice is that they focused on this boulder right here which
actually rolled down the hill above above this site
and the apollo astronauts took a bunch of photos of this boulder
and from all different angles and so through post-processing
we were able to combine all of these photos and create kind of a 3d perspective
of the rock even though we don't necessarily have true 3d data whoops
overshot that a bit and what you'll notice because we're integrating a lot of different data sets
right here is that the boulders this 3d structure is
hovering over the actual surface terrain and that's just because
you have different height maps and different color maps and so the two that i have turned on
right now aren't in sync so that's why you're seeing a little bit um
of a an odd scene right here these rocks are not floating that's just an artifact of the
software so
you can explore these as much as you want there's also some other boulders that we have in the software
and you can you know zoom right up to the center of these
and look at the inclusions in the rocks if you're so inclined
but um yeah this is just i think one of the coolest things this software has is
incorporating multi-dimensional data
so i'm happy to take any questions if anybody has any
but i really encourage you to explore the software if you're interested it's
at openspaceproject.com and it's free to download and free to
use you do probably have to have a pretty good graphics card to render all this
data but you have a little patience you can really really explore a lot
so hope that was a little bit helpful and i am excited to be here with you all and
thanks so much for having me that is so cool thank you marina for
showing us around open space there's a question in the chat about how
big that moon boulder might have been ooh i would say probably the size of a
small car yeah great yeah my guess
we need an astronaut for scale in there maybe you can add that in wow cool
thank you so much that was great so ernie's creating all this great visualization and marina is showing us
cool ways to use it um and anyone is able to run this with a good um system
you could we could be planetarians ourselves is that true absolutely yeah that's so cool thank you
really and for you guys yeah next up we've got
many of you know of astronomy picture of the day or a pod for short we've got
robert nemerhoff who's joining us from michigan tech university he's the principal investigator
for apod along with jerry bonnell and
he's going to show us some amazing views of the moon from people who have taken images all over the world and and nasa
as well of course take it away robert thanks for joining us okay thank you vivian thanks uh thanks
for having me sound this is great um so you observe the moon these are some best uh
a pot images so our apod stands for um astronomy picture of the day which you can find at
apodapod.nasa.gov so we've been around for quite a while since 95. every day we feature another image at
this website address and we have a lot of good images and we're currently one
of nasa's most popular sites so let's get to the moon images and
what's this is this the moon it looks like the moon's got lots of craters it seems to be moon covered
but uh kind of looks like my background but it's not the moon it is mercury
so there's lots of cratered things in our solar system moons and planets and so mercury is one of them
it's a lot hotter in our moon it's almost it's a little bit bigger than i'm room but not much bigger and so the
messenger nasa's messenger satellite took this um 10 15 years ago but exciting news just
this month baby columbo collaboration between um japan and
europe just zoomed by mercury again and it will eventually return and orbit the
first planet out from the sun okay so if that's not the moon is this the moon
this is not the moon we know how can the moon look like this that's
cause this isn't our moon no so which planet does this moon orbit you
can just shout that out it's good people around you will want to know make sure your neighbors can hear you
um what what's what a little bit louder okay yeah that's right it's saturn's
moon iapetus and it's sometimes called a painted mirror what we're seeing is the trailing
hemisphere as it goes around goes around saturn and the leading
hemisphere is a little bit unusual more than a little bit unusual it's dark as cold it it's dark brown
and there's some kind of carbonaceous material there and this is the more lighter material much different in brightness that trails it so this is the
trail mostly the trailing hemisphere here you see down here a big um big crater
so let's keep looking for the moon oh there's our moon
do you see the moon find the moon this was an a pod on you can find all these images on the
starting picture of the day the day you find them we have an archive of all of our images you just go
to the july 11 2021 although it appeared previously so this was taken from this picture of the moon is taken from
colorado so if you think the moon is on the left raise your left hand if you think the moon is on the right raise
your right hand if you think the mood is in the center raise your center hand i don't know how that works but um
so raise both hands there you go and so the answer is drum roll please it's
right here now how come the moon ac is brighter
than this moon because this moon was taken during a total lunar eclipse for one thing
and another thing it was taken just as the sun was rising so it's a full moon
the sun is just rising and illuminating the air so there's a lot of air glow here also there's a lot of attenuation due to
the earth's atmosphere so even the full moon isn't as bright as we remember it and sometimes you have to look at it the
photographer who took this jimmy westlake said that he knew where it was when he took the picture and then when he looked
at it he couldn't find it he knew even knowing where it was he couldn't find it
but if you put your eye right up against your monitor or your phone you can see it put it right up there it's okay
people aren't watching okay good okay is this our moon
and left left hand is um your left hand is yes your right hand is
no and the answer is yes it is our move but it is not that uh what you usually see
it is the moon from zandate this picture was taken in 1970 by the soviet union spacecraft
which zond 8 which went around the moon and took film pictures
came back to earth and this is one of those film pictures that was developed so
um this is mer oriental here and there are some of mario which are says which is means latin for ocean but but it's
not seas they're nazis they're dry and uh but you can see the highlands that we just saw last uh
last lecture uh the far side of the moon are much higher and then
lighter than the mario and so we had seen the far side of the moon before but this really brings it into into focus
how cool it is okay so here's another moon this is uh
the standard moon that you might see uh so here you can try to find not the moon itself but the man in the moon as we
heard last hour there are more than the man in the room there's a fox in the moon which i had never heard before i
heard of the woman in the moon and there was actually a couple rabbits in the moon and many cultures have a lot of moon
myths which is beautiful in the u.s one of the favorite moon myths is the man on the mirror which
could just be a personal mirror but it's known as the man of the moon that's the search top topic you would
use if you want on google so can you find the man in the moon everyone's seen it but do you know where it is
and so here's one one there's many ways of doing it but here's one way of doing it you take these mara and they're the
eyes and then you put the nose this is the mouth so if the moon is at the right orientation which depends on your hemisphere and latitude and actually
time of night but if so then you can find the man but there's actually two
people in the moon here the other one is this guy right here who's taking he's
looking at an image of uh through his telescope at the moon behind it so when you observe the moon you can see
the man in the moon and you can look through a telescope and see fine details on the moon
okay so this is the moon not a moon you might be familiar with so this person who took this moon brent
mckeon in manitoba he was gone to work one morning and he went outside and he
looked up where the moon would be and this is what he saw and so he was late to work because he
just couldn't believe it fortunately in our era of uh smartphones he was able to take a picture of it so what we see is
the lunar halo in the center and we see moon dogs on either side and we see tangent arcs on top and bottom and
circles uh caused by floating ice crystals that flitter down most of this
and so when you look through ice crystals these ice crystals can reflect certain things and you can see really
cool stuff and so this is a really great image a colorful image of moon too so
when he then drove to work almost all this disappeared within a few minutes you could see only one of the moon dots
but if you see this take out your camera and take a picture and if you want send it to us we'd be happy to see it
okay this is a really close up of the moon it's hard to get this from your backyard
in fact the best way to get this is to go to the moon so that's what humanity did and this was taken in 1969 and this
is a picture of the first person on the moon from the second person on the moon this is a picture of neil armstrong
and he's standing on the moon and this is a pot of the lunar lander and uh the
moon is described and we heard it just this hour and even last hour a magnificent desolation
it's kind of empty back there i mean there's some craters you could look at my and there's hills my background but
it's kind of empty it's kind of desolate but it's really cool at the same time so buzz aldrin the person that we're
looking at is the person to coin the magnificent desolation phrase so even this one though was taken in
1969 just this past year someone took a look at buzz aldrin's visor which is like a spherical
reflecting surface and that's here and with the miracle of modern software inverted it to create an
image of what buzz aldrin would have seen looking out of his visor and so this is
neil armstrong on the moon as reflected from the visor which is included here and this is uh there's there's certain
space there's that's there's some measurements there's buzz aldrin's um shadow here and there's neil and you can
see here and if we go back to the last one let's see if i can do this stop crashing everything so you can see all of this here
there we go and then we go to the next one and here you see it again this is the reflection so you see it over here
and there's neil armstrong so uh a miracle so he was able to find really
high resolution images of the moon so the film images of the moon are some really incredibly high energy resolution
so this has been inverted so we just did that this just was done by michael ranger who did this so a lot
of the cool images of science are now done by citizen scientists who take data
including nasa data and reprocess it in some way that's scientifically interesting and visually interesting and
that's what this person did and there's lots of data online that you can too you can do it with hubble data
people are doing it with juno data around jupiter and i think future missions will have the ability to do
that too this is one of our most favorite uh images are one was popular images from
2020 so this is the moon showing mostly by earth glow but this moon taken in
guatemala over a guatemalan volcano looks a little bit like saturn because of the what seem to be rings but those
are just on clouds so it's actually a a crescent moon and you can see some
background stars too but the the juxtaposition the one thing looking like another is just really a powerful
icon it's a combination of two icons when you look at it you can see the features of the moon but when you look
at this it kind of looks like saturn and it's all in one shot was one shot
okay so the last one i have it's called eye of moon this was taken in utah it was
taken by a citizen scientist again and you can see a gibbous moon here
and um so what this person did is they used several apps so you think oh just take a
picture of the moon through the uh arches um national monuments one of the
arches in utah just go do that but you have to time it right and you have to know where the moon's going to be at a
certain time so zachary cooley did this and he computed things again and again and again and he went up there and he
had people looking through the ark arch too and he found the moon in the arch and got a picture of it and sent it in
and so this is called eye of mirror and this is some of the cool images that we feature
so let me plug the night sky network again if you're out there and you're not a member of the local astronomy club
maybe you should check it out and one way to do that is on nightsky dot
jpl.nasa.gov and if you want you can come back and see our site anytime at apod.nasa.gov
and that's what i have for you so oh robert i love this thank you so
much apot is just one of the most magical websites around you can make it your screen saver you
can do so many things with it and people have taken it in all sorts of directions so thank you so much for joining us
those were great moon images oh and last but certainly not least we
have dr brian day joining us he is um coming from the survey institute and he
has one of the coolest systems around he's um the survey stands for solar system
exploration research virtual institute which is a mouthful which is why we call it serbia
he's the deputy staff scientist there and he's going to be telling us about moon trek that will be one more way that
we can be almost feel like we're on the moon um and you can do this from your home computer so check it out thanks brian
thank you very much vivian uh so let's see i think uh if you could bring up my
video feed here and get it going so today i'd like to provide you with an
overview of nasa's moon trek online portal this site allows you to explore the
surface of the moon as seen through the eyes of many different instruments aboard many different spacecraft
designed for lunar mission planning and science moon trek is also a great resource for the public and students
from k-12 through graduate school to explore the moon moon trek is free for you to use you
don't buy anything or install anything just point your computer's browser to trek.nasa.gov
and when you do you'll see a number of worlds you can select from today we're going to select the moon because well
that's what we're doing today and we'll zoom into the moon here click explore to bring up the portal for
the moon and you'll be offered a chance to take a tutorial of how to use the controls
right now i'll be your tutorial and like any good gis system you can zoom you can
pan and what we'll do is we'll zoom and pan here to the crater tycho
and one of the first things you might want to know about tycho as well how big is it well using our distance
calculating tool that's as simple as drawing a line we'll just draw a line across taiko here we'll see that it's
about 85 kilometers across it's a big hole in the ground you might also want to know how deep it is and again
that's as simple as drawing a line we'll extend the line on either side now so we catch the rim
and let's move taiko a little bit off to the side here you'll see we can very easily
get a nice elevation profile you can measure the heights of mountains the depths of
valleys and craters very easily with the moon track portal you can also draw a bounding box around
any landform you want so we'll draw a rectangle around tycho here and it's
going to come back it's going to ask us if we want either an stl or obj file
that you can send to your 3d printer you can make 3d prints of any area you want
we also have the experience trek vr tool draw a path you want anywhere across the
surface of the moon and it'll come back to you with a qr
code scan this qr code into your smartphone and whatever path you drew you will now
fly in virtual reality just put it in a pair of google cardboard goggles
you can switch a number of projections we're going to jump here from a flat equal rectangular projection to now a 3d
globe projection and interactively we will go flying just using the keyboard
game control keys in our mouse we can fly down into tycho crater it's actually a lot
smoother when you're not piping it through zoom here but we can fly down into the crater you can fly all
across the surface of the moon it's a great way to go exploring it's a lot of
fun and you can see all kinds of features coming into
view so now while we're in the 3d mode we'll bring up another tool
this is our country movie mover tool you can select any u.s state or any country
around the world and you can overlay it on top of the moon drag it and so you
can compare landforms on the moon to landforms that you might be more
familiar with here on earth get a real good appreciation of the size of features
now you can navigate very easily with our fly to feature you can either enter a
specific latitude or longitude or you can enter any place name you want we'll type in marius hill here and we'll fly
to the crater marius and the reason we're going to marius is because marius is surrounded by the
marius hills some of the most spectacular volcano volcanoes on the moon it doesn't look
too spectacular here but we have over 10 000 different data layers here
many thousands of data layers and we can view the moon in many different ways and so what we'll do is we'll pull up a
laser altimetry view here and we can get a detailed view of all the ups and downs
and now we can see hundreds of cones and domes popping into view
again there are many different data layers we can work with so now we'll go ahead and bring up a different view of
this same area now we'll pull up a gravity map from the kaguya probe
and this is going to show us the same area very differently
we'll see a gravity map with red areas being high gravity blue being low
and you can just add different data layers into a stack and you can re rearrange
items in your stack for each item you can toggle it on and off you can see an
abstract about that data product you can
view here for instance what does the color coding mean here uh you can see the metadata the actual
provenance of this data how it is appropriately used so you can get into
the real nitty-gritty you can download the data so if you have some other software that you want to use this data
in we provide you with the means of downloading that but really cool is you can then adjust
the transparency so you can blend different data layers together and in doing so here now we see the surface
topography of the volcanic field as well as now the interrupted plug of magma beneath it when you do a visualization
like this you might want to save it or share it and since it's all browser-based we generate a url for you
that you can copy paste into an email send it to your friends they load it into their browser
and it'll bring up your visualization the south pole is of great interest
right now we're about to send a lot of robotic missions and some human missions to the south pole so let's take
a closer look we can see that this is an area of intense shadowing the sunlight is coming
in essentially horizontally and a lot of the terrain is really obscured from view but if we switch to a laser altimetry
view we pierce those shadows this can be very helpful in planning traverses we
can really see the details of where we might want to go we can also generate a slope map
red is slopes you might want to avoid blue is fairly nice and level
we can overlay areas of permanent shadow where the sun hasn't shown in over a billion years and this is areas where
volatiles like water ice can be accumulating that's a key
resource another thing we might want to do is look at thermal data so here we have average temperature from the diviner
instrument maximum temperature again really good for isolating
where water ice might be located let's take another view here we'll look
at hydrogen abundance again as a marker for where we might find
water and we can also do a map of ice stability at depth thermal
modeling how far would you have to dig down for ice to be stable in those permanently shadowed areas it's stable
right at the surface let's do a wrap up with a tour of some sites this is the apollo 11 site
visualized with moon track you can see the descent stage you can see some of the instruments and the footprints of
the astronauts here is the aponine mountain front with hadley rill visited
by apollo 15 and we can zoom down a little closer to hadley rill
looking across it and looking up at the slopes of mount hadley delta
we can take a look at the apollo 17 landing site we saw that a little bit earlier
and you see this valley uh the taurus literal valley deeper than the grand canyon here on
earth this wonderful landslide coming off of south massif that was apparently
triggered by an active fault there the lee lincoln fault uh going to lacus mortis is a place
we're going to go next year with a robotic mission and within lockus mortis is the crater berg
with this great landslide on its western rim uh the aristarcus plateau fantastic area
lots of volcanic activity as exhibited by schroeder's valley among many other
volcanic features and speaking of volcanoes the green toys and domes have recently been named as a destination
tall steep volcanoes with thick viscous magma and this is the
mountain leibniz beta it's flat top is going to be the exploration zone for the
viper rover as it prospects for water uh we have three craters that have just received
names in the last few days matthew henson ursula marvin and paul
spoodus were honored with craters near the south pole of the moon so these are just the types of views you
can do sightseeing across uh the surface of the moon with the moon trek uh
series of portals there are portals for a variety of worlds i encourage you to visit trek.nasa.gov
and i tip my hat to the brilliant team at jpl that i get to work with thank you all very much
well that was really awesome
and i think that our audience has learned so much about the moon probably more it you know with all the
presentations and stuff especially this last one more than uh our audience ever knew about the moon
in their entire lifetime so really fantastic really fantastic thank you
thanks to all of you this has been what an incredible day
just a minute i want to point out to everyone that brian is also one of the founders of
international observe the moon night he was there when the idea for this program was conceived and he makes our beautiful
moon maps every year so this is his work um that you all get to enjoy year after
year after year with all the different features described so this has been amazing i always love
hearing from brian and i get to work closely with ernie and and everyone on here tonight has just taught me so much
so thank you all so much and thank you all for being here um this has been just
a fantastic evening andrea real quick i need to give a hat
tip to ernie wright too on those moon maps that we use every year so amazing
work all of all of these people are doing such incredible work and you and ernie are combining for a
moon viewing tool every single day of the year so look for that in the next few months we're going to have any day
of the year you can pick out a day and decide or if you're going to be in a place with a good viewing location or just from
your back porch or anywhere you can see what is a really cool feature to look at today and ernie and
brian and stacy and others and kayla and several others are working on that one as well and vivian's helping us improve
that too so lots of minds combining uh to bring you more great moon things
throughout the entire year so thank you all so much lots of minds theme of the night i love
it yes uh thanks so much to all of our hour three folks and stay tuned everybody we
are gonna finish strong for you tonight with a little bit more moon feed from slu we are gonna end with some music
we've got some wrap-up information for you but first vivian has got a little
change of pace for us all right so check this out i want to
give a big shout out to john goss who was here earlier let's see
we have a little moon trivia for you i hope you can see that all right so imagine you had a car that
could drive through space um if you're going 60 70 miles an hour
we're calling it normal freeway speeds um how long would it take you to reach the moon you can add that in the chat
you can add it um you can just turn to the person next to you and guess um
and i'll just give you a minute uh that this is from the astronomical league's 75th anniversary and um john created
quite a few of these that we'll be sharing soon so um all right i hope you've had time to
guess anybody here want to guess yeah i would put i guess 143 days yeah
right it's pretty it's specific you are right it is far to the moon uh
you could fit 30 earths in between the earth and moon so although it took the apollo astronauts just um three days a
little less um they were going a lot faster than my car does so there you go
we've got a lot of fun um factoids to share and i hope you have uh you can join use some
of them for observing the moon night i'm gonna stop share
all right we've got everybody and let's okay so what we have left is we do have
more of the video feed from slu we have one small step from winsync
um and then before we go there oh sorry go ahead go ahead go ahead
oh i just i want to make sure that some of those links that we shared way back at the very beginning and a couple of
others make their way to all the folks who are out there with us tonight uh hopefully um
why don't you why don't you put those links in the chat and i'll put them in i'll paste
them in here so people can directly link on them and i will also put them up as far as uh
um something that can be uh used as they watch us in the future awesome
and um thank you scott and thank you dave for keeping the chat running as we
have been going tonight and getting all those links out there these are the people who are making this night happen
much appreciation to you i think dave's got some of those links coming to you
across those channels as well um ways you can get involved and stay involved internationally observe the
moon i include you can add yourself to the global map
of lunar observers on moon.nasa.gov observe
by registering your participation you'll actually see yourself show up with observers all over the world which is
really fun there are all kinds of ways you can participate in international observation moon night as
you have probably gathered if you didn't already know we interpret observe
broadly and we look forward to seeing how everyone
chooses to ship to every moon over the next couple of weeks and beyond if you would like to share
your experience and see how other people observe the moon all over the world we
invite you to browse our collaborative flickr gallery for 2021 and to
contribute your own images and these can be photographs from events these can be
lunar themed art whatever you are doing to mark international observe the moon night
we would love to learn about it finally for me i just want to make sure
everybody is aware that if you want to stay tuned in on social media observe the moon is the way to go
there'll be lots going on and we hope you'll join the conversation and i know vivian has a couple of additional
links to share with you all wait for it we move on thanks sorry
i was just going to say we want to let everybody know we want to hear all about how it went and what you did because
that's really exciting for us and helps us plan future years so uh
we've dropped a couple of the observer surveys in the chat there's one for if you are an observer having your own uh
observations of the moon part of the moon during this week or so and then
there's another one for event hosts who are hosting events that involve more people and if you could just take it
they're very very short take a couple of minutes to let us know what you're up to that will help us keep the moon party
rolling so i want to thank everyone so so much for joining tonight this has been one of
my favorite events we've ever held thank you thank you very much
thank you so we'll just run past those links anything else anybody like to add
before we we roll the end credits here let's see some moon feed from slough
thank you all right well let's show this first here we go and i also for people watching uh uh
that are on on the live chat you can click those links um uh for sure you're
gonna want to respond back to uh vivian on and the night sky network
people on how to what they you'd like to see for a future event so i hope to do this one again it was just
such a blast um and uh we'll switch over to that feed from slu
here we go thank you scott
i know we had some folks asking about telescope live feeds in the chat at the beginning of this event and
um we will have more than one telescope live feed going on next week one week from today on international observe the
moon night so if you join the nasa tv broadcast that will take place at 10 30 pacific
1 30 eastern 5 30 pm utc you'll catch more from slu
we'll also have a telescope live feed from gen luca masi at the virtual
telescope institute in italy who we heard from earlier this evening and of course lots more on the live broadcast
next week so we'll hope to see you there and um viv scott andrea is there anything else that
you'd like to add before we uh play ourselves out with a final
installment from winsync thank you we hope you have a great time observing the moon
that's right share it with us we can't wait to see how you're doing it thank you thank you
thank you and until everybody that uh appeared on the program my gosh you know it's just
uh it was like an all-star uh you know line up here so uh i i can't imagine
having a a better group of people to help interpret uh what the moon is all
about so okay thanks again and
uh make sure that you celebrate the international observe the moon night and and consider joining a night sky network
astronomy club if you don't belong to one already good night
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