News — "Lunar adventures" collection
Thinking of the arts and sciences of the Moon at mid-autumn, aka “mooncake festival”
On the occasion of the mid-autumn festival in this year of the 50th anniversary of mankind’s landing on the Moon, we thought to "fly everyone to the Moon" and share something about the origin, the artistic and the scientific connections to this day and the stories related to these. (For those interested to see the full Moon from a plane, you can track the Moon's position from anywhere at mooncalc.org and use planefinder.net to see flight routes.) Origin: the Moon and harvests The early form of the festival was derived from the custom of moon worship during the Zhou Dynasty over 3,000 years ago. ...
Man’s landing on the Moon in 11 numbers
0 – As far as we know, no human being has lived on the Moon yet (although there are a number of teams working on achieving that, much fictional accounts, and many poetic and philosophical imaginations)! 1/4 - Diameter of the Moon compared to that of the Earth, so it would have taken less time to walk around the Moon, not that anyone has tried 1/6 – Gravity on the Moon is 1/6 of that on Earth, so it requires less work to walk (and you weigh 6 times less too)! 1 – the Moon is the only satellite orbiting...