International Observe The Moon Night 2024 Set For Saturday, Sept. 14

Attendees are invited to explore the moon’s current lunar phase while gaining insight into what exactly a lunar phase entails. They also will be encouraged to test impact physics by creating craters with various impactors, help create a data art map of the moon’s south polar region and explore the moon’s surface.

Additional highlights will include examining the effects of impact melting and viewing the Texas A&M NASA Moon Tree, which orbited the moon on NASA’s Artemis I mission. The winner of the NASA Moon Tree naming competition also will be announced.

“We understand that the moon is a celestial enigma, and we aim to unravel its mysteries while shedding light on the peculiar rhythms and rotations that define the Earth-Moon system,” McGraw said. “We encourage everyone to seize this chance to expand their cosmic horizons.”

The night also will include a continuous broadcast of “The Moon’s Symphony,” a dynamic, 42-minute, seven-movement work by international award-winning composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg that merges music and science to dramatize past, present and future moon explorations and highlight discoveries that have been made in our search for other worlds that could possibility sustain life.

International Observe the Moon Night is sponsored by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission and the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, with many contributors. LRO is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

This story source was originally published by Texas A&M Arts & Sciences.