About 4.5 billion years ago, give or take, a planet the size of Mars slammed into the Earth. The Moon is what was left of the wreckage.
Solar System
The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the masses that orbit it, most prominently its eight planets, of which Earth is one. The system formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region of a molecular cloud collapsed, creating the Sun and a protoplanetary disc from which the orbiting bodies assembled.
Artemis II Mission Timeline
The first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. Four astronauts will fly around the Moon and back in about 10 days. Here's what happens and when!
A year into the wreckage and salvage
It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things would turn out differently. The research and thinking I came
The New Moon Eclipse + Year of the Fire Horse
The Daily Planet #120: Deep Time Continued - The Daily Planet
Planetary Lexicon: Key Terms in Earth System Science
Define 90+ terms in planetary science — from Anthropocene and tipping points to planetary boundaries and the ecosphere.
NASA Didn't Even Know!!
How I Found A 55 Year Old Bug In The First Lunar Lander Game
Update: This kinda blew up! Featured in Hacker News, Ars Technica and PC Gamer, among others. Just months after Neil Armstrong’s historic moonwalk, Jim Storer, a Lexington High School student…
Planetary Sapience & Planetary Stupidity: a Bildungsroman for the Baby Noosphere | Antikythera
That is, the faculty of recollection and foresight? Until recently, I would argue, our planet was amnesiac. That is, no part of it was reflectively aware of the place of the present relative to the established past nor the expected future. But then peculiar animals emerged, capable—no matter how imperfectly—of cooperation, abstraction and invention. In the last blink of geologic time, through the collaboration of these animals with their increasingly cunning artifacts, this state of planetary amnesia has faltering begun being cured. That is, through our artifacts, our planet is becoming aware of its own unfolding biography. In our fallible attempts to model our world—alongside our growing legion of sensors—The Earth system has developed a way of recollecting its deepest past and tracking the changing complexities of its present so as to forecast its furthest future.
Why the Moon is Spiraling Away From Us
The Daily Planet #123: Deep Time Impermanence - The Daily Planet
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a forme…
After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon
An expert explains why this will be enormously bad for the United States.
