NSN Webinar Series: Destination: Moon with Brian Day

The NASA Night Sky Network joined Brian Day from NASA's SSERVI on May 23, 2023 as Brian brought the NSN community up to date about NASA’s plans for lunar exploration, including the Artemis missions.

The Artemis missions will include a mix of crewed and robotic landings. Thirteen regions near the South Pole of the Moon have been identified as candidates for human exploration. Some of these same regions have also been targeted for precursor robotic landings through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program. In addition, locations away from the South Pole have been designated as targeted sites for robotic exploration due to some fascinating aspects of these sites. Other locations which have not yet been assigned landers are high on the lunar science community’s list of important lunar locations to be explored. In this presentation, we will examine key potential target sites on the Moon, discuss what makes them so compelling, and demonstrate how members of the public can conduct their own explorations of these amazing lunar locations using NASA’s Moon Trek data visualization and analysis portal.

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[josephdonais]

I didn't know The NASA Night Sky Network was a thing. I'll have to check you guys out. Sorry I missed the live stream.
Nice to actually see stars in the background.
You have certainly gone through a bag of beads I have had since the early 70s and strung them together nicely in this vid. Thank you.
22:57 "Its orange!" This is what he was looking at when he made this exclamation that I have often heard over my years?
*Seatbelt, I had never heard of this, nor the rock. It was an appropriate joke as well, a good one too.
They'll probably have to get more and more creative each time they do such things. More power to them.
At some point we will need to dub a robot "Rosey" befitting her relation to The Jetsons.
44:37 So, you are saying the state of Delaware could almost fit in this creator?
Wow, perspective really has a problem without reference. The one time I might want my thumb in the picture.