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Potential Caves and Sink Holes in Copernicus Crater
Motivation: Lunar caves are very interesting for the standard reasons (they offer possible locations for radiation-proof, thermally-benign bases for future astronauts). Another reason of interest is...
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Shadows aren’t always black on the Moon
Moon Zoo team member Dr Tony Cook sent me a link to Censorinus Crater which is south-east of Mare Tranquillitatis. At first glance it looks like one of the many craters we see in shadow. But this one...
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One Year on the Moon
This week, Moon Zoo celebrates its first year since launch back in May 2010. Initially designed as a way to count and measure craters, the simple ‘point and click’ interface was an inspired idea...
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Boulder Repellent Craters
Something is puzzling us on the Moon Zoo forum. Ever since Tony Cook set us a challenge last year to find craters with floors cleared of boulders we have been collecting these boulder repellent craters...
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So you think you know the Moon
So after all the clicking on Moon Zoo you should know what the lunar surface looks like! But do you? Are you a true lunarphile? Like the Moon, Mercury is also rocky and heavily cratered. Can you spot...
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And the answer is…
MERCURY . THE MOON How the voting went: Picture 1 is Mercury 15.6% Picture 2 is the Moon 15.6% Picture 1 is the Moon 34.4% Picture 2 is Mercury 34.4% So how did you do? As you can...
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Strange Whites
Forum member Ewan, otherwise known as Dynamo Duck, found some strange looking craters on the South-East edge of Mare Crisium at Latitude: 12.275° Longitude: 62.1034°. They appear to have unusually high...
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Can you find the Moon?
A puzzle for you this week. Can you tell the difference between a moon, a planet and minor planet? Below are images of craters on our Moon, Vesta and Mercury but which is which? Superficially very...
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Thank you Moon Zoo!
The MoonZoo science team would like to extend a gigantic thank you to all 20,627 users who contributed in counting craters (and more!) relating to the Apollo 17 landing site (Taurus-Littrow)! Let’s...
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Apollo 12 – a new challenge is set!
Dear MoonZoo aficionados, Our next surveying exercise will be centred on the Apollo 12 landing site. Your previous and successful endeavour saw hundreds of thousands of craters and interesting...
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