Evolution of the Moon

Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views of its surface, along with new insight into how it and other rocky planets in our solar system came to look the way they do. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center svs.gsfc.nasa.gov . NASA Moon Evolution Astronomy Super Luna Perigee Apogee Full Night Sky Moonlight Moonbeam Lunar Phase Bright Bark Howl Temporal Insomnia Insanity Lunacy Lunatic Effect Folklore Magical Phenomena Lycanthropy Dog Bites Space Flight Apollo Soyuz Shuttle ISS Planets Galaxies Galaxy Clusters Spiral Solar Star System Pulsar Supernova Black Holes Meteor Asteroid Orbit Satellite Milky Way Universe Multiverse Science Astrophysics Cosmology Physics Tycho Aristarchus Shackleton Poles Kaguya Aitken
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Monash Centre for Astrophysics public lecture series, 29 Mar 2012: Chris Tinney, Australian Professorial Fellow "The Golden Age of Exoplanetary Science" There can be few questions more fundamental for a scientist's research to address than "Is our home here on Earth unique? Or ubiquitous?" Astronomers involved in the search for - and the study of - extra-solar planets are fortunate enough to have this sort of question driving their daily activities. The exoplanets that astronomers have been finding over the last two decades have a bewildering array of properties and architectures - and the vast majority look nothing at all like our Solar System. Nonetheless, the drive to identify systems that look like our own, and to understand how the rest of the systems we have found were actually formed, continues unabated. Chris Tinney will deliver an update on all this work from the front lines.
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