Tag: Moon

  • For Your Enjoyment

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    Jason Woodbury reviews Pure Bathing Culture’s new album Moon Tide. As members of Vetiver, Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille explored the gauzy textures of Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac (occasionally recalling the hazy mysticism of the Peter Green era, too). The duo recorded at his National Freedom studio in Cottage Grove, Oregon, shortly after moving to the Pacific Northwest from…

  • Scientists Detect Magmatic Water on Surface of Moon

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    Earth Sky Science News reports scientists have detected magmatic water — water that originates from deep within the Moon’s interior — on the surface of the Moon. These findings, published in the August 25 issue of Nature Geoscience, represent the first such remote detection of this type of lunar water, and were arrived at using…

  • NASA releases Saturn-Earth ‘photobomb’ pic

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    The US space agency has released a rare photo of the Earth and moon taken from the vantage point of the outer solar system, with Saturn’s rings in the shot. The color images were taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft at a distance of nearly 1.4 billion kilometers away, NASA said. After calling on Earthlings to wave at Cassini for…

  • This Sunday – the Supermoon

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    The full moon that will rise Sunday will be the largest of the year, a “supermoon” caused by the slightly asymmetrical orbit of the moon around Earth. Sunday’s supermoon will reach its peak fullness at 7:32 a.m. EDT. The moon’s closest approach of 2013 will be about 221,300 miles (357,000 km) from Earth, about 20 minutes…

  • What causes the tides?

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    By: Marcus Goodkind Gravity and inertia are the major forces responsible for creating tides. The moon’s gravity and proximity to the earth pulls water toward it. The moon’s gravity causes a “bulge” in the oceans facing it. Inertia (a body in motion tends to remain in motion), acts to counterbalance the moon’s effect and causes…