Comments on: Lunar triple sunset

By: Jax’s Link-o-Rama: Critter Edition | Jim On Light

Jax’s Link-o-Rama: Critter Edition | Jim On Light — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:02:12 +0000

[...] desk lamp. (gizmowatch)Yet another sweet LED lighting option for your home. (homedesignfind)Sunset on the moon: sweet jeebus is that cool looking! (bad astronomy)Speaking of sun, here’s a new planet [...]

By: Jaideepblue

Jaideepblue — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:16:38 +0000

Nice, I’m assuming its named after the great Indian physicist Homi Jahangir Bhabha (and first developer of the Indian A-bomb project)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha
Conspiracy alert: Died in a mysterious air crash which is claimed to be the handiwork of the CIA to impede the a-bomb project.

By: Chris S.

Chris S. — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:07:19 +0000

What would you call the illusion experienced by the second shot in which it appears the upper portion of the photos looks like the roof of a cave?

By: stan9fos

stan9fos — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:08:54 +0000

For another perspective I tried seting this as my desktop on stretch mode, which distorts it a lot, but seemd to change the wiewpoint too. My netbook desktop is 1024 x 600, YMMV.

By: Pierce R. Butler

Pierce R. Butler — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:51:56 +0000

Thanks, Buzz @ # 34, but that may be a little too technical for the science fiction story involving such a formation that I may not get around to writing anyway…

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:15:43 +0000

@33, Pierce, technically it is known as a wibbly-wobbly splashy-rocky kind of a thing.

By: Pierce R. Butler

Pierce R. Butler — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:24:15 +0000

The rock flows outward, then sloshes back inward, splashing up to form peaks.

Is there a more specific technical term for this particular phenomenon?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:24:27 +0000

@27 Who’s inventing? It’s a perfectly cromulent word. (Sorry, had to be done)

The peaks should definitely be called Mt. Master, Mt. Dame and Mt. Little Boy Who Lives Down the Lane

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:36:11 +0000

Most excellent!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:58:36 +0000

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDD

TRIPLE LUNAR SUNSET

UGGGGGGGGGGGH

By: Lunar triple sunset « Men Into Space

Lunar triple sunset « Men Into Space — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:36:31 +0000

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By: DLC

DLC — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:12:50 +0000

Don’t let him fool you, it’s really the cloaking field around the Secret Nazi Base!
/hoaxland

Seriously though — cool pics, thanks Phil.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:12:46 +0000

There is no such word as “embiggen”. What’s wrong with “enlarge”? Why the need to invent new words?

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:37:58 +0000

Four peaks, surely? Or is it just me?

How distinct does “a high part” have to be before it’s a peak?

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:30:36 +0000

I think pictures like these do far more to advance the cause of science and reason than a dozen articles arguing against nutcase woo.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:31:33 +0000

@15. Regner Trampedach & 22. Gary Ansorge :

Thanks. Can’t wait to hear more details and have these candidates confirmed.

@17. DrFlimmer Says:

The first thing that came to my mind: Holy Bhabha!
Or was it:Holy Babar?

Ali Babbar?

@13. YosemiteBear Says:

@Messier Tidy Upper : But, OMG, a triple lunar sunset ! That’s amazing!! What does it mean?!?!

Well a “triple lunar sunset” must mean we’ve somehow had our Sun replaced and we’ve moved into a triple star system instead surely – right?

By: Grand Lunar

Grand Lunar — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:58:57 +0000

Amazing how the moon still manages to amaze us, isn’t it?

Nice find, Phil!

I wonder if LRO has managed to get good images of the crater Tycho.
That way, we find the monolith.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:52:56 +0000

10. Messier Tidy Upper

The most recent issue of Scientific American has a great article on the geophysics of planets in the earth size range and how their structure may differ from our little dirt ball. It proposes that Earth may be at the lower limit for biologically inhabitable planets. It brings to mind Hal Clements stories of humans adapted to living in 2-3 G gravity fields.

Dang, it’s great living in a time when we have SO much to discover . Now, if our biologists can just figure out a way to let me live long enough to actually see these places, I’d be happy(ok, I’m happy now. But I’m also greedy for more).

MORE KNOWLEDGE NOW please.

Gary 7

By: Syrtis

Syrtis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:43:20 +0000

I hadn’t realised LRO took shots at oblique angles like that – I thought they were all straight downwards. An oblique view of Mt.Pico or Mt.Piton in the Mare Imbrium would be extremely cool to see.

By: Grimbold

Grimbold — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:21:20 +0000

That is stupendously cool.

By: jcm

jcm — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:29:08 +0000

Nice.

By: Julio Vannini

Julio Vannini — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:38:15 +0000

Whoa!

I am having a hard time trying to close my mouth with a dropped jaw!

As we say it here in Nicaragua: “De acachimba!”

I <3 LRO!
http://ungaman.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/primeras-imagenes-de-la-lro/

By: DrFlimmer

DrFlimmer — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:37:54 +0000

The first thing that came to my mind:

Holy Bhabha!

Or was it:

Holy Babar?

Then the crater nearby would, of course, be

Crater Rataxes!

By: Tom Head

Tom Head — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:15:04 +0000

This just cries out for a “Three Peak Moon” t-shirt…

By: Regner Trampedach

Regner Trampedach — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:14:44 +0000

Messier Tidy Upper @ 10: Well – those are not rumours about Kepler planets. It is official that there are more than a hundred Earth-like (size-wise) planets in the Kepler data from the first year of its 3.5-year mission. These are *candidates* – we need follow-up observations from the ground, plus additional dips in the lightcurve of their parent stars (that is, at least three observed orbits around their star), in order to have them being confirmed planets. The various possibilities for false positives are statistically less likely than the 140 reported candidates, which makes the Kepler team rather confident in their assertion that Earth-like planets are rather common.
Cheers, Regner