Conditions very good with minimal heat wave in atmosphere.
I had my radio tuned to International Space Station downlink channels for voice comms and had a good 2 mins listening to the Astronaut chatting back to earth.
My question is about the moon.
Whilst looking at the moon and its craters i was wondering if anyone has footage or if anyone has seen through their scopes a crater being created from impact on the lunar surface.
Surely all these craters could not have been made millions of years ago?
I would say that every now and then a meteorite or space junk would impact on the lunar surface and was wondering if we have footage of this happening?
From my understanding the craters were almost all formed many millions of years ago, nothing erodes or changes due to no atmosphere.
The most recent bombardment was when they were suveying the moon for landing sites back in the 60s. They sent Misslies that had their nuclear warheads removed under various treaties to the moon with a camera in the nose cone that recorded and transmitted the pics as they splatted on the moons surface. Think I saw that on the BBC series the Planets, sent heaps.
Judging by the number of meteors there must be some sizables still hitting the moon but getting a shot would be tricky.
It would probably make you famous if you did get a shot......hmm, think I might just pop outside and see how the cloud cover is going.
Someone did post a link on this forum a while back which showed a small, but visible, meteor impact on the lunar surface. While big impacts the likes of which so clearly scarred the lunar surface are pretty much "a million to one" shots now, there are small impacts from time to time, the same as there are here on earth except the moon doesn't have a protective atmosphere to burn up the impactors before they reach the surface.
Just noticed that the movie was brought to you by spaceweather.com....I can just see it now..."...and in the morning, light to moderate meteor showers with occasional heavy downpours, afterward a nice sunny day. Remember peeps, morning time bring your umbrellas!!"
