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This is the "Pink Moon" which marks the coming of spring. This year, the "pink moon" took place over Easter weekend and the start of Passover. Here's a short article about the "Pink Moon" from April 6th: [] And of course some pictures:

1/8/12: A photographer at Johnson space center took some great pictures of a waxing gibbous phase of the moon. Check out more pictures and article here [|ttp://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/iss-passing-across-moon_2012-01-06]

- Caitlyn



** Mr. L, just a quick question that I thought of when I was looking up at the moon today. Why does the moon appear very bright in the sky earlier than on other days?? Does that have to do with the clearness of the sky, the time of month??? ** ** Zoe Bazos ** -Hey Zoe, Well since it's a waxing gibbous right now, it's kind of a 'best of both' situation where it's reflecting a lot of sunlight //as well as// visible during the late afternoon hours. Like a week ago you could just see the crescent in the evening, but now you get a big slice of Moon through a bunch of the afternoon and all night. I was checking to see if the Moon is at perigee right now (the closest point in its monthly orbit), and it is not. On a cold, clear night there is a little bit less moisture in the air than on a warmer night, which I think could make it appear a little clearer/brighter, but I'm not positive about that. Late


 * = [[image:Moon_102.jpg width="497" height="769" align="center" caption="Max Levine 11/7/11: This is the Moon taken through a telescope from my Iphone 4s "]] ||
 * = [[image:IMG_5358.jpg width="501" height="776" align="center" caption="Picture by Max Levine taken from his phone from a telescope on 11/11/11. Its The Moon. I found some of the craters. "]] ||
 * = [[image:IMG_5401.jpg width="499" height="772" align="center" caption="Picture by Max Levine taken from his Iphone on 11/18/11 at 5:13pm. Its a picture of Venus"]] ||
 * = [[image:IMG_5347.jpg width="499" height="772" align="center" caption="As Mr.L guested correctly. It is Jupitor. Picture taken on 11/11/11 by Max Levine from his Iphone 4s through his telescope."]] ||
 * = [[image:IMG_5420.PNG width="501" height="884" align="center" caption="Picture by Max Levine taken from his Iphone on 11/18/11 at 5:13pm. Its a picture of Venus"]] ||
 * = [[image:IMG_5324.jpg width="547" height="671" align="center" caption="Picture by Max Levine taken from his phone from a telescope on 11/11/11. Its The Moon. I love this picture because as you can tell some of it is darker than other or shadows covering it. It was really trees covering the picture because the Moon wasn't high in the sky so thats why its has shadows. "]] ||
 * = [[image:IMG_5420.PNG width="510" height="681" caption="Picture by Max Levine taken from his Iphone on 11/18/11 at 5:13pm. Its a picture of Venus"]] ||
 * = [[image:IMG_5352.jpg width="408" height="622" caption="Picture by Max Levine taken from his phone from a telescope on 11/11/11. Its The Moon. These three Moon pictures I took weren't the best but I found them interesting how the first pictures I took had a lot of craters and these three pictures don't have craters well not many. "]] ||
 * = [[image:IMG_5421.PNG width="502" height="885" align="center" caption="Picture by Max Levine taken from his Iphone on 11/18/11 at 5:13pm. Its a picture of Venus. This a closer picture I just took a snap shot so I can zoom in further without making picture to flurry. "]] ||
 * = [[image:IMG_5408.jpg width="502" height="777" align="center" caption="Picture by Max Levine taken My Iphone taken on 11/18/11. This is Jupiter and the moons."]] ||
 * = [[image:IMG_5413.jpg width="495" height="767" align="center" caption="Picture by Max Levine taken My Iphone taken on 11/18/11. This is Jupiter and the moons."]] ||=  ||
 * = [[image:IMG_5410.jpg width="502" height="776" align="center" caption="Picture by Max Levine taken My Iphone taken on 11/18/11. This is Jupiter and the moons."]] ||
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 * I was on my AOL and I was looking through the news section to find out something about one of Jupiter's Moons. I thought it was really cool so thats why I am putting this up on th Wiki.**

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New research that suggests Jupiter's moon Europa has a body of water the size of the Great Lakes just two miles below its icy surface has brought scientists one step closer to determining whether or not the freezing satellite is suitable for the development of extraterrestrial life. According to NASA, scientists have long thought that a huge ocean -- more voluminous than all of earth's oceans combined -- existed below Europa's surface. But since the moon is so far from the sun, the surface ice is thought to be tens of miles thick. Now, scientists analyzing data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft have found ice blocks on Europa's surface that suggest an interaction between the moon's icy shell and a lake-like body of water under the surface, Discovery reports. According to Britney Schmidt, the lead author of the study that appears in the journal Nature, this could mean nutrients and energy are moving between the ocean and icy shell. "One opinion in the scientific community has been if the ice shell is thick, that's bad for biology. That might mean the surface isn't communicating with the underlying ocean," Schmidt said in a statement. "Now, we see evidence that it's a thick ice shell that can mix vigorously and new evidence for giant shallow lakes. That could make Europa and its ocean more habitable." To come to this conclusion, Schmidt and her team analyzed "chaos terrains," areas of dark, bumpy, irregular features on the surface of Europa. According to TIME and the paper's abstract, the team created models based on the formation of similar terrain on Earth -- subglacial volcanos and ice shelves -- to determine how the chaos terrain on Europa could have formed.=====

**Here is the video clip...**

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**-Nicholai Nosworthy**

**Hey here's a video on the moon! It's not that confusing or complicated or boring! YAY!!!** media type="youtube" key="6Jg0L5lD9bM" height="315" width="560" align="center"

**~Joanelle:) **

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**-Max**