 Welcome everybody to the International Observe the Moon Night 2018 webinar with Andrea Jones from NASA Goddard. Every month when we do a webinar featuring the science of NASA we also highlight an outreach activity related to the topic. So this month we're looking at the moon and we have an activity to engage your audience in lunar observations and also in some of the history of the moon. So this one is called Toad in Moon and Dave Prosper is going to show where to find all these in the chat. You can find all of these resources on bit.ly slash nsn moon night. So that's for a night sky network moon night. But all of the resources that we're presenting tonight can be found there. So Toad in the Moon is from Family Astro and Astronomical Society of the Pacific program. This focuses on the legends and stories surrounding the moon and it takes between five and ten minutes to do. It's nice to do before you get started observing so that people can have a minute to look at the moon. It's good for all different ages but kids love it especially. So this talks about many of the different stories, the fox that can be seen in the moon from people in Peru. We've got the rabbit in the moon from the Aztecs of Mexico and beyond and the Toad in the Moon from China. That's where we get the name for this program. So each of those tells a little story about what they see in the moon and then there's a worksheet where kids or families can draw what they see in the moon. Sometimes it's there. Someone in their family sometimes it's a story that they really like and then they can write what character they see and tell a little story about it. So it's a nice way for them to start observing those features of the moon and a nice way to observe International Observe the Moon Night. So now for our featured program I want to introduce the fabulous Andrea Jones. She is an Education and Communication Specialist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the Planetary Science Division. What that means is that she works with missions and research teams learning about all of the cool stuff that they're doing. And then she gets to share it with us. One of her many hats that she wears is as the Director of the International Observe the Moon Night, which is why she's here tonight. She is the one in the know. So please welcome Andrea Jones. Well thank you very much Vivian and thank you all so much for being here tonight. I am very honored to be a part of your program. I am a huge fan of the Night Sky Network and we have been working with Vivian and ASP and Night Sky Network for many many years and it's just wonderful to be a part of this. And so I want to start off by figuring out how to share. Here we go. I think I'm going to share my desktop. So sorry about this. Oh no. This was all of course working so well just a moment ago. And can you hear me? It's working. Yes we can hear you. Okay great. My computer is telling me that my audio isn't working. So I'm glad that's not true. Excellent. So that's what happened to me earlier. That's why I had to ask. Ah okay. But you're sounding great. Excellent. That's great. Yeah it's I mean it's the popular joke how we can get to the moon but we can't you know connect you know in a room or here in this case a virtual room. But it's been such fun to see all of the people joining in. It's so fun to see where everybody is. Right now I'm talking to you from New Jersey and not where I'm from but this is where my parents live and I'm going to help with an event at the Sea Air and Space and Trumpet Sea Air and Space Museum tomorrow. So it's fun to be catching up with some of you in campgrounds and in time zones across the US and beyond. So this is great. I imagine that most of you are familiar with International Observing Moon Night and hence you're here but if you're not I'll give you a little bit of a background of what's going on and sort of show you the new and the great for this year and encourage you to be thinking about what you might want to do with this as well. So for those of you who are not familiar or who are just getting involved let's see that might skip twice now. International Observing Moon Night is basically just a celebration. It's a celebration of lunar science of planetary science of the moon and we try to get everybody on earth outside looking at the moon and learning about the moon and talking about the moon with one another and maybe you know finding something new maybe sharing some lunar enthusiasm with neighbors or friends who may not know a whole lot about that neighbor of ours out so close to us in space. So the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has led this effort for a long time. One of my roles is as the public engagement lead for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter but we also really really like having the moon be the gateway to the solar system and beyond. So we love featuring all kinds of space science and earth science at these types of events and and really enjoy having libraries get involved with their books and an artist getting involved in all that. So it's just an opportunity to come together and talk about it. And so for those of you who may be new to this also we actually started out as a national observed moon night or even before then it was a celebration of when the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and our sister mission Elcross the lunar crater observing and sensing satellites I think went to the moon in 2009 and we just wanted to have a big party to say yay we made it we're in orbit around the moon and then from there there was so much excitement about that that it's kept going since then. So 2009 was our start and we're we're still actually 2010 I guess was our start but we're still going. So through international observing moon night hopefully many of you are familiar with this but in case you're not it's a chance to bring people like you who are experts in space science and observing out into communities to share that experience with other people. So some of my favorite events are you know outside of ice cream parlors where it's you go for you know an ice cream treat but you get two because there's a telescope outside or there was one wedding where people had all of their guests go out and look at the moon and I feel that's a level of dedication that's very honorable so if that was you or if you know that person good for you that's great we don't require that kind of commitment but we do love the diversity of events that are out there there is another one that I really like was a whole biker game a motorcycle game stopped by at this big telescope field of telescopes and looked at the moon so all kinds of different ways so it's everyone everywhere all the time and it's a chance again to learn about lunar science which there's always so much lunar science to learn about and anything else related to the moon use it as your launching pad to talk about whatever space science topic you think is most interesting are there other moons in the solar system that you like to feature are there other moons that you're hoping to discover around exoplanets or wherever it is that you like to look we want to help you get there as well and just tying back to that nearest neighbor in space and and we find that you know through events like this with our extensive evaluation people are actually learning about the moon and they're excited to learn more and that is in great part because of what you do to share the moon with your community because I know so many people from the sky network are involved in this program and so I really really thank you for getting involved or wanting to get involved we love new folks too so last year we had a little over 600 events that were registered we know that there are more events in places like Africa we work with astronomers without borders we're actually rekindling that relationship to make it more robust right now but there are a lot of people in places that don't have internet and so they can't register but they're still involved and we're of course always hoping to grow and build and diversify we did have three states last year or four states last year that did not participate so we're very disappointed so if you're out there from around the country make sure your state is involved we want to get all 50 again this year but I know that we're working towards that already and lots and lots of people of course since 2010 and it's not I mean it's always fun to have the numbers that's not really why we do it because every single person that's involved is someone that we're excited to have looking at the moon and learning about the moon but it is kind of a fun thing to know that if you are one of those dots on the map that you are part of a global celebration the world that comes together one day each year to do something really awesome and really exciting and you're connecting to you know people in every country and we're going to try to make the most of that this year with a few new initiatives and really build on those international connections but yeah it does our funding primarily comes from NASA so we do of course want to serve the US audience as much as possible but I think it's really fun to be with people all over the world looking up at the moon all right so as I mentioned our everyone everywhere every year that's our our new tagline as of a poster on helping Tyler Norgren in case any of you know him he's working on a poster for us for international observable night and I thought hey that sounds like a good line to put on there so that's the new line Vivian surprise this is what we're going to talk about hope that's okay with you but again the diversity is just really wonderful and the people are what make it great so for those of you who have events I would love to hear what you do and how you bring international observable night to your community because what's special about this event is essentially it's an idea we want to get people outside looking at the moon learning about the moon celebrating the moon and all the connections and we want you to do that in whatever ways interest you and serve the interests and needs of your audience and also that make use of the resources that you have available so you know people I have friends who go out on their porch and you know have a lunar treat and look at the moon and actually they print off the moon map that I'll show you and just look up and talk about the moon and see it from their backyard and that's great or you might have a huge event with thousands of people and have lots of subject matter experts there from NASA or a local university or wherever and that's great too or it could be somewhere in between it could be anywhere in between so we definitely encourage you to partner with someone for those of you who have institutions available to your astronomy club excellent use that and run with it but if you do not necessarily have that you might want to partner with a library or a school or a university or a planetarium or a park or anybody who is interested in working with you it's really wonderful to bring you know both the science expertise and the equipment like telescopes or binoculars along with folks who have bathrooms and lighting and parking and all those kinds of things but we also really like that you don't need a telescope and you don't need a beautiful dark sky even though those are great it's not required so please go out and do it however you like just as an example from Goddard we have our scientists talking about the moon with actually lunar samples and you're able to borrow lunar samples from NASA as well if you're associated with an institution we have telescopes of course and then we also I don't know if you can see on the top right we like to print off galleries of lunar images so the lunar reconnaissance orbiter camera has a gallery that we made in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and now it's all available online and you can print out images from that collection and you know basically just wallpaper your house is what I would encourage you to do with them or you know bring them to an event and share them with people and we just print them on fabric and then you know take them around wherever we happen to be going or you can print them on paper whatever it is that you have available we will be sending you some items as Vivian mentioned and Dave mentioned so that's going to be coming to you but feel free to use whatever it is that you have available alright but now for some things that we are able to provide you and everyone in the world as well as you so new website this is fresh off the press I think it was today or maybe yesterday but right now this moment moon.nasa.gov slash observe is our new virtual home this is very exciting we are working with JPL and they have amazing tech people we had a really nice home at the Lunar and Planetary Institute for a long time and we very much appreciated all the work that they did to bring our content out to the world but it's really exciting to be at the site that people go to learn about the moon from NASA and right on that same page we have our flagship event this is one of the biggest events that NASA does anywhere and it's really wonderful to now be at the place where people are going for content so I see that someone is asking and again it's moon.nasa.gov slash observe so this is a brand new site and where if you still have the old website it'll redirect here so don't worry on our advertising materials we're just switching over but on this new website we have so many things some of them are you know we have information we have about the moon generally and all kinds of things but we do also have some specific event materials including the poster on the left that if you're in the Night Sky Network you will be getting in the mail so look for that and then we also have on the right a fillable flyer so if you go to our website you can fill out hey I'm from Massachusetts and I am going to be having you know an event in this park at this time and also both here and on the website now when you are registering you don't have to have an event on October 20th October 20th is the day for 2018 because we want to pick a day that as many people as possible can be united in looking up at our neighbor in space but we recognize that this is not a convenient date for everybody and so we think you should go out and look at the moon and learn about the moon every day but if you can't have an official event on October 20th this year then pick a different day that's somewhere nearby try to get you know as close to the 20th as possible but having the fillable flyers and having on our event map on our website it'll say the date of the event so people don't go at the wrong day so that is up to you and we want to make this as as accessible to everybody as possible and you can tailor it the way that you want to but these are some example event materials we also press release templates and and many many other things to help you prepare for your event tips about things you might want to consider ways to find partners things like that are also on there to get ready in addition to having physical presences and resources we are very excited to unite lunar enthusiasts worldwide through social media so we are on a whole bunch of platforms we're on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Tumblr and Snapchat and wherever people are talking we are there talking about them and we used to have an observe the moon night specific account and actually there is a Facebook page that somebody out in the world decided should exist and people have taken it and run with it and it's just a host run page which we think is fabulous and we contribute sometimes but that's actually not our somebody came up with that and we are very excited about that we do post content specifically my colleague Molly Wasser who sits with me at Goddard in my office she's amazing and she is the voice of NASA moon so hopefully all of you out there if you are on Twitter you are following NASA moon because she provides such fabulous content my favorite actually my two favorite things about Molly with NASA moon are that she changed how NASA capitalizes moon because of her announcement of this Twitter account and people were very upset that it was a lower case M following style guide and she got enough people upset about it that totally unintentionally that now we are capitalizing moon at NASA which I'm very excited when we're talking about earth moon and also she's the tweet that broke the internet last summer for the eclipse where she blocked NASA sun and that was really fun and hopefully many of you saw that otherwise you should go look it up if you're on on on the Facebook and the Twitter and all of those places that was pretty fun so we like getting involved in those conversations because people get hooked and then stay with us all year and we would love to feature you and your content on social media and we're going to have featured hosts next year on moon.nasa.gov slash observe we're going to be sharing with everybody examples of some of the amazing lunar connections that people make around the world and if you are interested send us some pictures send us some stories send us some some quotes from participants and we'll get you up on our page and show the world what amazing things happen when people are excited about the moon so let's see those are just some examples observe the moon is our hashtag on all platforms so you can find us there and we'll be ramping up even more coming up then some examples of products there are so many things I don't want to tell you about everything I want you to go check things down yourself to see what else there is it's a treasure hunt but I do want to highlight our 2018 moon map so we make a map of the moon every year and it highlights some objects that are near the terminator of the moon which is my favorite celestial term because I love that that terminator is the line between day and night and I learned that I just wanted to tell everyone so I know many of you are familiar with this but if not join me in sharing that with the world so we want to highlight those pictures because that's right on the dawn dusk line and that's where the most beautiful viewing is at least in my opinion and I'm sure many of you share that and so that's where the shadows are great and you can really see topography pop along those those day night lines so I also wanted to show you both of our moon maps because of course in the southern hemisphere the moon looks upside down if you're a northerner and this is also great for telescopic viewing if you're looking at the moon through a telescope and your telescope flips the moon well look at that you can use the other hemispheres map as well if you'd like so this is the front of our 2018 map are of our two different maps and then on the back each of those featured places has a closer view and then a description so people either just in their backyards can can learn about that or you can choose to highlight those at your event as well so I really enjoy that product Brian Day from NASA Aims and from the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute survey makes those for us every year and Jen Bear is our graphic designer for all of our amazing art so some really talented people on our team and then I also like to give a plug out for observing the moon all the time and what better way to do that than to start a moon observation journal at your international observable night event so this is you know we have this and we have on the other side some questions that you can ask people or they can fill out after they fill out their journal so I encourage you to promote a long-term lunar observing at your events we just launched this website today yesterday we have 105 people already telling us that they're going to look at the moon many of them in the US but also internationally so that's very exciting for you fine folks in the night sky network you actually have to register on our map you can register through the night sky network and we will import your data onto this map so you don't have to do it two times but we do want you to come and see what else we can offer you on the website but you don't actually have to do that so for this year also special we're highlighting of course the Apollo 50th anniversary so last year you may have heard of it there was a big eclipse in the US some people might have heard a little bit of something and we want to build on that we've had so many more people excited in the US especially about eclipses and about the moon and about space because of the eclipse and we know other places in the world have that same sort of boost in in space science interest after eclipses so we want to build on that we want to feed that we want to keep those people excited about space science engaged and this International Observers Moonlight is one opportunity to do that and the Apollo anniversary of course is a great time to celebrate a human triumph and so we are going to try to help you do that if you'd like to feature at your event so we're going to have some resources featuring the Apollo 50th some slide presentations that have some information about past present and future exploration because the Apollo anniversaries are not just about looking back about how great that was it's about how the Apollo program built up our understanding of essentially you know the solar system and beyond in terms of at least physical geology of all of these objects and you know helping us figure out the age of the solar system and the earth and all those things and Spired Earth Day you know going to the moon let us look back at the earth and our tiny little amazing spot in the vastness of space so this is something to celebrate an international service minute is certainly one way to do that so there are gazillions of resources out there for Apollo anniversary we will highlight some of them on our website and one of them I wish I could see all of you I'm sorry I can't I would ask for a show of cans but if you have not seen the Earthrise video Ernie Wright in our scientific visualization studio at NASA recreated the moment where the Earthrise photo was captured in such amazing detail it's truly remarkable on this spacecraft here this is a clip from his video every sticker on the spacecraft actually has the correct text if you zoom in he checked and made sure all the text was accurate he took the original audio files from the mission and remastered them and actually solved a mystery of who took the Earthrise photo it was a debate among the astronauts on Apollo 8 two people claimed credit for this photo and so Ernie invited them and their spouses to Goddard to watch this video together and the wife of the astronaut who didn't take it said honey you didn't do it afterwards which is very funny but Bill Anders is the real photographer of Earthrise and now Ernie has in his office a signed image of Earthrise signed by Bill Anders saying your Earthrise is better than mine so there's my plug go watch this video it's amazing and that's something that you can share with your communities as well or your family or just for fun on the couch it's great so for current exploration I mean there's so much to be said here I just thought I'd mention again that LRO is taking amazing data and capturing so many things that you can then discuss as well if you'd like to and many of you may be familiar with this mission I really hope you are and if you're not get involved it's so great there's so many different ways that we're learning about our nearest neighbor in space and a few of them I'll highlight here so one of them is just our cameras our cameras can take pictures of you if you went to the moon and lay down on the moon and made a moon angel we could see you and we are recapturing the moon over and over and over and that's actually really important because the longer we're there the more we can actually see the surface changing today which is remarkable so we have these great images near and far side we're making improvements to impact crater science so this right in the middle is Tycho crater of course you can see that you know with your eyes just looking out at the moon without any assistance but if you have assistance like a camera on a spacecraft orbiting the moon you can take images like this so this is our out-of-the-airplane window kind of you when we rolled our spacecraft over to capture that and in case you're not familiar with this mystery as well another one of my favorites that little you know pebble at the top there I would ask you if I ever had you the opportunity but this is the size of a baseball stadium it's a baseball stadium sized rock on top of a mountain inside of a giant impact crater and according to the impact crater modeling material that we had at the time this image was taken it's not allowed like you cannot have a baseball stadium sized rock on top of mountain in the middle of an impact crater that is sloshed with impact melt and yet there it is so it can happen so we're having to rethink our our understanding of one of the most fundamental geologic processes in the universe and we're doing that with spectacular Ansel Adams style photographs so I think that's great just because the cameras are so amazing I'm gonna zoom in again so in this image that the crater in the middle is Dionysus and this is zooming in on that crater and I just I couldn't help myself just some eye candy everybody it's amazing I feel like it's waterfalls on the moon and each one of those lines that you can see in the dark patch those are individual lava flows that helped build up over a huge amount of time slowly slowly the marae that we can see and then this is dust flows cascading down and this is just this is captured snapped in time so it's it's static right now or at least for the most part and it's still slope failures going on but I think it's just remarkable and that's not from ice melt that's all dry granular flow but it is it looks like water I showed this one of the heads of the National Park Service was at Goddard last week and I got to show them this and they just thought wow what are falls on the moon and this on a hyperwall if you have the chance to come see a NASA hyperwall get this image up there it's just I could spend hours there it's amazing and then this is another one where you can just see the activity isn't it amazing just to see how active just this impact here looks like it just shows you the power of what was unleashed when that rock from space hit the moon I love it and so this is also not only showing us how impact cratering is changing but it's actually our presence at the moon for so long is showing us that the surface of the moon is churning up more than we expected it's at a faster rate than we knew before the lunar reconnaissance orbiter was up there so that's really kind of a neat science result if you want to build a lunar base on the moon you have to account for a higher population of these small little objects hitting the moon than we had previously known and it's actually going to turn up the Apollo tracks for example faster than we anticipated so they're still going to be there for a long time but an order of magnitude less so on the order of hundreds of thousands of years to millions of years rather than many many of those but this was a fairly recent science result that I thought was very interesting it tells us about the dating of the services this one some of you may know and some of you may not so take a moment and see if you can guess what that is it's some evidence of recent volcanism on the moon so this is not today but this is on the order of tens of thousands of years old maybe a million years old maybe younger than that we're it's still kind of small and we have some you know we haven't gotten a sample but I think it so in case you're having trouble figuring out where's high and low that main area is a low point and there's some kind of blobby thing so Brent Gary a geologist at NASA Goddard explained it to me like this is a big pool and then you drain the pool and all the pool toys are still left behind so you're looking at a low area with pool toys or blobs of lava that are still on there so this happened you know not that long ago and in terms of geology and when we're thinking of billions of years this happened yesterday which is amazing we've also found new kinds of volcanism on the moon with LRO more solistic volcanism this is another feature that we knew it was around during the days of Apollo but we did not realize that they're everywhere so this is actually a scarf that is showing that the moon even maybe today is still shrinking it's still active there's still stuff going on and this is like you can picture a giant souffle that you just pulled out of the oven and it was all big and now as it's cooling as the moon is it's contracting and our giant souffle of a neighbor in space is contracting and getting those cracks all over its surface so they're all over this is a global process happening but I think that's so neat that there's don't worry it's gonna be up there this is not gonna be a giant difference for anyone visible to see but I think it's it's still pretty neat also of course we're imaging the Apollo landing sites every time we go by and we can see things like the astronaut footprints and all the equipment that was left behind so in honor of the Apollo 50th anniversary you can go check these out look at them along the way and see what's going on this is Apollo 17 and if you're not familiar with it a friend of ours not on our team officially or at least not yet but Ben Feist has created Apollo 17.org and it allows you to relive the moments of this mission from start to finish while the the team was on the surface and it's remarkable amazing incredible and I definitely encourage you to check that out he's doing another one for Apollo 11 so stay tuned for that but some really really nice material for you to take a look at and you can if you go to our website the LRO camera website you can actually watch you know the shadow of the flag throughout a lunar day and other things too because we have them from different times of day and you can see how sometimes you can really see what sticks out from the surface from the shadows and sometimes you can see what's light and dark and actually because of that different time of day we're learning new things about the Apollo landing sites that we didn't know so Jack Schmidt geologist walked on the moon might have heard him so he comes to Goddard sometimes and we'll look at imagery from the LRO camera combining it with what he remembers from being on the lunar surface combining that with sample data and we're we're making new discoveries about for example Apollo 17 because of the context that our spacecraft is able to provide so today almost 50 years later we are learning still so much about the moon because of Apollo and the legacy and and what it built up last two things I just had to mention we know the shape of the moon better than the shape of any other object in the solar system including the earth or at least a solid surface of the earth we actually know it better than any other object in the universe in terms of a planetary object and that's because of course the moon doesn't have the oceans that the earth has so we we know the shape of the moon better than the shape of the seafloor which is kind of amazing so much more to learn still here on earth but what we are learning about earth and the moon of course we learn about each other by learning together because the moon like to think of the moon it has the baby pictures of the earth moon system so we lost a lot of information on our planet because of our amazing recycling program here through plate tectonics but the moon doesn't have that kind of activity so we do have some very old surfaces that we can look at on the moon and learn about the earth so and last bit we found the coldest measured place in the solar system on the moon colder than Pluto of course has an atmosphere and it distributes heat better around its tiny little object way far out from the Sun than the moon which is only tilted a tiny bit on its axis and so and without a substantial atmosphere it does have an atmosphere a surface boundary exosphere if you want to impress people at your next cocktail party but it it does have an atmosphere but it's not really able to distribute heat very well so the places that don't get light these places on those permanently shadowed areas are colder than Pluto or anywhere else beyond the vacuum of essential vacuum of space in our solar system so I think that's kind of cool and this of course is important for future exploration of the moon so as we're looking to what's next the lunar reconnaissance orbiter and the other spacecraft around moon and all of the other programs that helped build up our knowledge of our neighbor are going to inform where we go next and how we survive there and knowing where the energy is where the sunlight is where the resources are is going to be really important for that next step on the moon or those next steps and then beyond so with that I will thank you again so much for your time and for your attention I'm really really happy to have been here with you this evening and I would be delighted to answer any questions that you have about the moon about LRO about lunar science planetary science related to it or international service moon night and just hear what you're doing or take your questions so thank you very much Andrea that was fabulous thank you so much for sharing that with us what was the name of the lunar atmosphere that I need to impress somebody yes oh I'm so glad you asked me it's a surface boundary exosphere so the line between our atmosphere around earth and space is an exosphere so we have an exosphere at the outer edge of our atmosphere as well but it just has an atmosphere underneath it or a thicker layer of air but the moon's atmosphere the exosphere part is actually touching this surface of the the moon so it's called surface boundary exosphere if anyone else has questions we have a few coming up here make sure to put them in the Q&A section if you put them in the chat it might get lost so we had a question earlier about the 60th anniversary of NASA and are we so it's October 1st right are we celebrating oh my goodness thank you so much who ever mentioned that I had a I think that graphic came out when I was putting all these together I had way too many slides I had to hold myself back so thank you yes October 1st is the that 60th anniversary of NASA we had we've been celebrating that for a little while with you know there were a few steps along the way but there's going to be a big broadcast and we are very happy to be you know of course Apollo wouldn't have happened without the start of NASA so yeah there's a whole site I think it's NASA.gov slash 60 or something like that but there will be lots of things going on for that event and then NASA is actually planning for the 50th and the 60th at the same time so there's lots of different events going on for that as well so yes very exciting awesome Darian O'Brien asked us about observing the moon and he gets asked as many of us do about seeing the American flag placed by the Apollo 11 astronauts have there ever been any photos taken by subsequent spacecraft we saw some of the tracks I can't remember which Apollo mission that was from that you showed tonight but is there anything from the Apollo 11 astronauts have we taken images of that absolutely so yes we have every Apollo landing site we have lots of imagery from every landing site and yes we definitely have Apollo 11 as well Apollo 11's flag is now lying on the surface of the moon because they put it too close to the ascent vehicle so it got knocked over but it's still there all the flags are still there that were brought to the moon they're probably now whitewashed by space weathering but the material is still there and you can still for all of the the standing flags watch their shadows as they you know cross the lunar surface throughout the lunar day so yes they are there well we can't see it from our scopes in our backyards you can see it from NASA orbiters that's so exciting I didn't know what it down yeah yeah you know you learn some things from going to the moon it's amazing they learned and they did it differently for the next mission and the other one so cool let's see Willie has asked how many lunar missions are now active including those from other countries oh I should really know that off the top of my head it's really embarrassing that I don't so I might have to ask the internet for some help on this one but NASA has the Lunar Constance Orbiter of course we also have two Artemis spacecraft that were originally solar missions but are now helping us learn a lot more especially about the plasma environment around the moon and that that surface boundary exosphere out there and just how the Sun interacts with the moon and with you know lots of objects in space we can learn a lot by studying that and then we have you know Chinese missions heading to the moon they're Indian spacecraft as well now there's you know a push towards private missions going to the moon so it's gonna you know we're gonna have a lot of friends up there you know before too long so it's great stuff to have such interest in the moon but I don't remember the exact number if anyone else you know knows it feel free to let us all know and teach yeah type it in yeah takes a village here and I love it's become such an international destination that's great oh Dave Dave comes up with it every time a list of the missions thanks Dave let's see there were a couple of questions about the resources the Earthrise video and those images those crater images were amazing where do you find all of those so they're all I mean the so I'll start with the video so I probably should have put this in there and Vivian you might have links to this on your fabulous page that you've created but all of the visualizations that NASA creates are put into NASA's scientific visualization studio so Dave if you want to type this out for us it's sbs.gsfc.nasa.gov and that's for all of NASA it's based at Goddard but we're for all of NASA and we have some of the most talented people I know are the people who take NASA's data and then make it beautiful and interesting and understandable so we have been very very lucky to have for the lunar reconnaissance lunar reconnaissance orbiter a team of people who have helped take our data and make it into visualizations like Earthrise so that is created based on NASA Apollo archive data as well as you know our data about like what the moon actually looks like right there along the path of the mission it's not just something like oh maybe it looked like this no like that's actually what's there right underneath at the time of day that they were there and he even used the weather map from you know the day that the mission was at the moon based on satellite data of the earth and took it and make the cloud patterns match like everything everything's right and that's all in the scientific visualization studio archive anything that you want to look up you just type in moon or you type in you know rose nebula or whatever it is that you want to see look for it in there we have a lot of different content for all sciences at NASA for the images those are all on the lunar reconnaissance orbiter camera website and I believe that's lrock.se.esu.edu but if you just look up LRO camera it's their website and they have featured images and they recently got some new writers so they're really trying to make the content of what they're finding with their cameras accessible and interesting and something that people can understand why they're so cool in addition to being amazing. Several of the images I featured in this talk I think came from the Smithsonian-Aaron space collaboration so I didn't actually select the images for that but I am curating an exhibit for the Museum of Flight based on some of those images so it's just fun to be like these are my favorites and you can do the same thing and I encourage you to do so very very high-resolution images are available on the LRO camera website. That is so fabulous I love these images. Andrea was and mentioning the website that we have a lot of activities and other resources on including 3D printed models of some of these craters that is bit.ly forward slash NSN moon night so we can put that in there again and we'll try and get some of these images up there too because that's got quite a few we've got quite a few images that are amazing on there so and then she's got on the main web page the moon dot NASA dot gov slash observe that's where you can find everything so let's see there are a couple of more questions before we finish Ron asked that you mentioned a spot on the moon colder than Pluto how cold is it ah that's a good question hold on I'm I have it in my notes I always I'm not so good at numbers let's see what is it it's negative 248 degrees Celsius negative 415 degrees Fahrenheit and I had it I think it's like 20 or 25 Kelvin whereas Pluto is only minus 184 C or minus 300 F you were great love those pictures of those craters and let's see where do you get the Apollo 17 view of the entire mission oh that's the Earthrise video is that no that's Apollo 17 org that's a different place so that's that was built by someone not associated with NASA this is actually Ben Feist is just a lunar enthusiast and in his spare time he recreated the entire mission and tracked all of the audio with all of the images taken with the tracks that were so everything is coordinated it's really remarkable I definitely encourage you to check that out that is so cool let's see I wanted to end with one more thing let's see if I can share this from here and then we will let's see if I can share my screen really quickly maybe let's see yep this is one of my favorites and I just wanted to share it with you I think you will all relate to this and you can find this on there as well one second it's a quick video and then we will finish up let's see hopefully you can see this now is it started one night I was bored in my apartment and decided to take my telescope out to the side I walked the moon was out and I thought why not within a few minutes people started walking over and asking what this thing was it's a telescope do you want to check out the moon? do you want to take a look at the moon? you're supposed to look right here that's where it all started it just sort of went from there look at the moon, hold on I'll put it on oh my god oh my god no way no way that's a moon? everybody's doing this sh** word that is intense right there boy whoo bro that looks like this right down the street man man what you got here that looks like this right down the street it's like an actual image of the moon this is everything to be able to see it up close and feel like you could almost reach out and touch it and that's what makes it real to us it makes you realize that we are all on a small little planet and we all have the same reaction to the universe we live in I think there's something special about that something unified it's a great reminder that we should look up more often well thank you Vivian I love that one that's so beautiful as if you guys needed any more inspiration to go out and share the moon for this international observe the moon night I just want to thank you so much Andrea for coming and joining us tonight I really appreciate it we had such a good time we got quite a few comments saying this is my favorite webinar yet it's been so fun being here with you and I wanted to just close with one last mention because this is brand new also I've been pursuing this with Vivian for some time and I just met with one of the head of strategic partnerships at NASA headquarters yesterday and I think we are going to try to establish a partnership with StoryCorps for the Apollo anniversary and Vivian's been pushing this so I have to give her a lot of credit and I am so excited for this too but it's again bringing the people into the picture so Apollo the moon landing I mean I wish I was around I'm very disappointed I was not around for it but I hear it was pretty amazing at the time and I want to celebrate that NASA wants to celebrate the human involvement and how everybody was a part of a Apollo if you were gripping onto your seat and just holding your breath while Neil Armstrong walked out into the moon or when they landed or any of those moments you were united with humanity and we want to capture that and we want to save that we want it archived in the Library of Congress for everyone for all time to have that memory of us available and accessible to everyone so we are hoping to have installations around the country we're hoping to have an app where you can interview your grandparents your grandkids your neighbors your friends anybody to share the intergenerate intergenerate relation I can't say that between generations have that sharing and talk to each other learn what's going on everyone has a favorite memory of the moon and everyone that remembers anything about Apollo we want to celebrate that so hopefully that's new and that's another way that's coming out and 12 was another great mission and we're going to celebrate science going to the moon with the wives of the astronauts who are around from that mission coming up to Nancy Nancy Scott and others are really interested so anyway really same thing so thank you all so much for being here I encourage you to go out look at the moon learn about the moon we have lunar observers are most welcome even if you're not having an event and again thank you very much thanks Vivian and thanks all for the opportunity thank you so much Andrea that's great news I'm really excited to hear and I know you guys are all going to do amazing international observe the moon night websites events and if you're watching this after the fact find a club nearby or solar system ambassador nearby and see what they have planned for tonight that is all for this evening I want to thank you so much you can find this webinar along with many others on the night sky network website on the outreach resource section you can just look it up by webinar each webinars page also features additional resources and activities will post tonight's presentation on the YouTube channel also in a few days I just wanted to get all that done thank you so much