The “Internet of Things” (IOT) is a term which implies internet accessibility by a wide variety of household and industrial devices. For example in a typical house, appliances, air conditioners, plumbing fixtures, and electronics might be Internet connected. Continue reading Spying in the Internet of Things
Category Archives: Observation
Is a Lunar Telescope Array Practical?
The jury is still out on whether space based or Moon based telescopes are superior, and for what purposes.
Telescopes may be either single tube, or an array. They may study the visible light spectrum, an extended version of it, or the radio frequencies. And they may be Earth based, space based or Moon based. To a first approximation, the resolution of an array of telescopes is based on the furthest distance between the individual scopes in the array.
Concerns have been raised that the static properties of Lunar dust Continue reading Is a Lunar Telescope Array Practical?
Viewing the Moon
Because everything on the Moon is white, grey, or black, there is often no sense of perspective. Is there an easy way to tell when a slope goes down or up? If you see a group of mounds, are you sure they are not craters? How does one tell a sinuous rille, which goes down like a riverbed, from a lava tube, which rises above the ground?
The Box: Could It Be A Fortress Built By Ancient Giant Aliens?
In the picture you can see a box or “Fortress,”, possibly built by ancient aliens. Why has NASA hidden this from us? How long have they known about it? What else have they hidden?
Answer.
It’s just one more dull, uninteresting pile of basaltic rock with a layer of moon dirt and dust piled on top. Nobody has hidden anything. It just happens to be shaped crudely similar to a box, therefore some people may choose to build a myth on top of this natural formation. Then they try to fool others into a NASA Conspiracy hoax.
Usually these follow similar grammar. Continue reading The Box: Could It Be A Fortress Built By Ancient Giant Aliens?
Blood Moon Tetrads “Prophecy”
Recently a controversy has developed concerning the “Blood Moons.” By way of explanation, Blood Moon refers to the orange-reddish color of the Moon during a full lunar eclipse. At such times it is illuminated only by light passing around the perimeter of the Earth. The fraction of the Sun’s rays which survives the long path through the atmosphere are in the red spectrum. Continue reading Blood Moon Tetrads “Prophecy”
Mohammed “Split the Moon” NOT
There is a controversy of sorts within Islam concerning a sentence or two in their holy books which assert that during a visit by Mohammed to Mecca, the Moon was split apart such that one piece was hidden behind a mountain, and another appeared in front of it.
First note that any Muslim recounting this story accurately will say that Allah split the Moon, not Mohammed.
Various interpretations exist of the supposed celestial event. Continue reading Mohammed “Split the Moon” NOT
Lunar Timekeeping.
Rover operators attempting to maximize productivity on the Moon would benefit from a calendar and a timekeeping system specific to the requirements on that world. This is a very different thing than the use of a Lunar calendar on Earth. On Earth, calendars help in predicting seasons, tides, eclipses and other phenomena of interest on Earth.
What is of interest for Lunar operations as far as a time system? Continue reading Lunar Timekeeping.