Posted on 05/31/2019 5:12:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Science does not know exactly how these phenomena occur on the moon. But it has attempted to explain them: the impact of a meteor, for example, should cause a brief glow. Such flashes could also occur when electrically charged particles of the solar wind react with moon dust.
"Seismic activities...would explain the luminous phenomena, some of which last for hours," says Hakan Kayal, Professor of Space Technology...in Bavaria, Germany.
Kayal's team built a lunar telescope and put it into operation in April 2019. It is located in a private observatory in Spain, about 100 kilometres north of Seville in a rural area.
The telescope is remote-controlled from the JMU campus. It consists of two cameras that keep an eye on the moon night after night. Only if both cameras register a luminous phenomenon at the same time, the telescope triggers further actions. It then stores photos and video sequences of the event and sends an e-mail message to Kayal's team.
year of work will be required before this can be done.
Interest in the lunar luminous phenomena is currently high. This is also due to a new "race to the moon" that is underway: China has started a comprehensive lunar program and at the beginning of January 2019 launched a probe on the far side of the moon. India is planning a similar mission.
Behind all these activities are prestige reasons and a striving for technological "supremacy" in space. China and other players such as Space X, however, are also considering the moon as a habitat for humans in the long term. In addition, there are raw materials on the moon—for example, rare metals for smartphones and other devices.
By then, at the latest, it should be clear what the mysterious flashes and luminous phenomena are all about.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Aliens!!!
Thank goodness. I was for sure that the first comment would have something to do with FR’s favorite planet.
Is another C-list celebrity flashing Heranus?
What's the world coming to? Even the Man on the Moon can't escape constant surveillance.
The Moon is shrinking and this is the Moon Farting
It's the sun flashing off Sheila's helmet.
It’s those flashes on Mars that would have me worried. Also worried H.G. Wells.
Some would say they are reflections off of glass structures on the moon.
Wiener has relocated
High beams from a tesla?
The Police already did a song about that around 1981.
That’s my pal “Varlock The Vicious’’, Supreme Ruler of Mars. He’s pissed at us. better watch out.....
Lera Lynn - “Standing on the Moon”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eze74encNRE
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