Word: aristarchus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, Houston radioed to Apollo 11: "We've got an observation you can make if you have some time up there. There's been some lunar transient events reported in the vicinity of Aristarchus." Astronomers in Bochum, West Germany, had observed a bright glow on the lunar surface?the same sort of eerie luminescence that has intrigued moon watchers for centuries. The report was passed on to Houston and thence to the astronauts. Almost immediately, Armstrong reported back, "Hey, Houston, I'm looking north up to ward Aristarchus now, and there's an area that is considerably more illuminated than...
...astronauts will range over increasingly rugged areas. The scheduled Apollo 12 flight in November will take them to the Ocean of Storms. On subsequent missions, they will touch down near the Crater Censorinus, the Sea of Serenity, the Crater Tycho and finally such forbidding abysses as the craters Aristarchus and Copernicus...
Repeating Wood's experiment with a filtered, 8-in. telescope, Green produced lunar pictures with black spots near the crater Aristarchus, from which astronomers have reported seeing a red glow-a possible sign of volcanic activity. To Geologist Green, it all makes sense. Sulphur is the most abundant of volcanic materials, he says, and wherever volcanic sulphur is found on earth, it is surrounded by hydrous rock...
Whether lunar life did evolve or not,, it would be worthwhile for astronauts to land near Aristarchus. There, by focusing solar rays on the hydrous rock, Green says, they can assure themselves of an ample supply of water...
...time Lunar Orbiter 5 finishes snapping its 426 pictures this week, space experts should have even more to crow about. The last of the Orbiters is taking detailed pictures of lunar features such as the Aristarchus crater, a thermally anomalous "hot spot" that has long provoked scientific interest and speculation. Lunar Orbiter 5 has also sent back photographs indicating a likely future landing site near a permanently shaded area in a region adjacent to the Lunar North Pole. "In such shaded areas," says Harold Masursky, of the U.S. Geological Survey at Menlo Park, Calif., "we can find out what...