Images that capture our timeless obsession with the moon

We never stop thinking and talking about the moon, he says Matthew ShindellCommissioner from the National Air and Space Museum of Washington DC.

“In the cities in many artificial lights that tend to look hard to look hard, it also gives us a very bright. If we obscure the stars, the moon is still constant presence, when we are at our night,” he said.

At Lunar: History of the moon myths, maps and matterShindell, 19 authors tell the story of this coexistence between humanity and the body of the body of humanity and the specific maps of the geological features of the moon and the geological features of the moon.

“See how the views of the entire universe changed how, Physics worked, the view of the places in the universe, and what the purpose of the universe says,” says Shindell.

Geological maps – Almost four dozen – position Subject Understanding the realities of the moon to change readers. Nasa and the United States Geological surveys are based on the 1962 and 1974 geological surveys in the United States and are based on telescopes and samples of territorial and astronauts caught.

On these maps, the Moon is divided into 144 sections called Quadrangles, which were named 1600. Decade, when the cartographers saw what they saw through the newly developed telescopes (see below).

Beyond the scientific documents, the maps revealed the culture of their time. The parts of the moon were appointed contemporary monarchies, such as Oceanus Filippicus for King Philip IV. The dark plains of the moon were tagged as “seas” often, the first observers figured that they were like ground oceans. The moon map can also see the fastest today by marine the sea of ​​marine or diving in the rainbow bays.

The more powerful telescopes became, the more the moon, Shindell said. A noteworthy example is “great moon hoax” from New York to 1835 Sunshine The newspaper published false reports on the discovery of life on the moon, with the engravings of flying creatures and other fantastic creatures. He began to be science fiction stories about visiting the moon, who worship the stories of ancient people as the god of modern writers worshiped.

Shindell says with scientific advances, many researchers continued to appreciate a very direct and personal view of the moon. The moon was photographed in the 1840s by combining cameras and telescopes, but for technological challenges, many moon cartographers still found their eyes to make the best maps.

Lower maps PETAVIUS quadrangle, XVII. He was appointed Denis Pétau in the Thoralology of the 20th century and has a crater of the same name that measures almost 200 miles in diameter.

Theophus is full of smaller quadrangle craters designated after the ancient Roman emperors. It has been the will of the geological history of the moon. As you enter SubjectThe surface of the moon reserves the “History of Our Solar System Violence”, which marked the initial days of the system. This history is not evident on the ground, where water and life continues to re-fit the surface of the planet.

The other map played here shows the sea of ​​humor, once rated with smaller craters.

On the visit to the Moon in 1969, Aldrin used the moon-surface camera to print his astronaut shoe and moon soil (see main image). Over the next three years, the crew of six different missions in the Apollo program brought more than 380 kilograms of that soil to the ground. Better understanding moon dust or regstritoIt remains the main priority, whether it could be used experiments Making bricks based on the moon or Growing food.

Nasa Apollo’s mission offered a new approach around our planet, among the earth above the earth, depicted below the ground. It reverses the roles of the two celestial body, as we connect to the moon again as it is up to us.

And in the coming years, it is likely to add chapters in a long story that is not artwork Moon. Only in 2025, almost a Dozen spaceship groups plan to visit the moon.

“When we start sending more humans to the moon and becoming more on the moon, his cultural meaning will increase, as it becomes a place that is now even more closely linked to human existence,” Shindell says.