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Title Skywatchers see 'super blue blood Moon' Media name/outlet BBC News Online Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 31/01/18 Description Dr Katherine Joy, a lunar scientist from the University of Manchester, said we were now seeing a "global revival in lunar exploration" she hoped would lay the foundations for human exploration and a lunar base.
"We'd even like to know if there are spaces in underground chambers that could be used as subsurface locations for underground bases that could be protected from the radiation environment," she told BBC News.
In an online article about the event, Prof Tim O'Brien, from Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, admits to being conflicted about the excitement surrounding the so-called supermoon, because the difference in the Moon's apparent size may not be as dramatic as the term might make it sound.
But, he said, we could still learn much from the event.
"The details of how the sunlight we see reflected from the Moon during eclipse has been altered, scattered and absorbed on its way through our atmosphere, and how this is affected by, for example, volcanic eruptions or even meteor showers, are still being studied," he said.
The key to this new age of lunar science - particularly human exploration - Dr Joy said, was international collaboration, modelled on the approach it had taken to build and operate the International Space Station.
"That's what makes the Moon ideal - it's only three days away," said Dr Joy.
"You can do all of those things and plan ahead for where you would go next, but retaining that infrastructure around the Moon."URL www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42817785 Persons Timothy O'Brien, Katherine Joy Title Super blue blood moon Media name/outlet BBC Breakfast Media type Television Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 31/01/18 Description Professor Tim O’Brien was on BBC Breakfast (from 2hours, 55 minutes) this morning talking about the super blue blood moon. URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09pr5p1/breakfast-31012018 Persons Timothy O'Brien
Keywords
- Super blue blood moon
- astronomy