Noah E. Petro

planetary geologist

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We’re so fortunate to have this moon as our neighbor,... and we should really be celebrating that.”
Just as we learned in April with Artemis II,... there’s a real connection with everyone here on Earth and what’s going on at the moon.”
  • Petro said, referring to the NASA mission that successfully sent four astronauts around the moon
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We're about to send humans back to the moon with Artemis. In a couple years, we'll have astronauts landing on the moon,
There’s a moment on May 1 where the moon will be at its fullest in the moment, but 24 hours before and 24 hours later, to the human eye it’s going to look full,
  • said Noah Petro, project scientist for the Artemis III mission, which aims to land humans on the moon for the first time since 1972
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I think of the Moon as the eighth continent of Earth,
The day before January 3 and the day after, the moon will appear full,
  • said Noah Petro, chief of NASA’s Planetary, Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry Laboratory at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
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Earlier

Skygazers advised to ‘wrap up warm’ to see Wolf supermoon

The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/science…

Meteor showers happen when speedy space rocks collide with Earth’s atmosphere, burning up and leaving fiery tails in their wake — the end of a “shooting star.” A handful of meteors are visible on any given night, but predictable showers appear annually when Earth passes through dense streams of cosmic debris

NBC Newsnbcnews.com/science/space…