On 3 September 2006, Europe's mission to the Moon, a robotic craft called SMART-1, performed a spectacular crash landing, visible to Earth-bound professionals and amateurs alike.
Here Nature news takes
a close look at the Moon, from its
geology to its effects on mankind,
from its birth to the future missions
planned to build a base on its surface.
Fly
me to the Moon Going
back for science, profit and fun. 01 September 2006
Pull
of the Moon Tales
of the Moon's effects on animal behaviour
are not just moonshine. 01
September 2006
I'd
buy you the Moon Is it
possible to buy up property in space; and
should it be? 01
September 2006
Begging
a crust NASA
has a lot of moon rock, but is it enough? 01 September
2006
INTERVIEW The
Moon in your hands NASA
has a developed a virtual Moon, much like
Google Earth, that lets users zoom around
three-dimensional visualizations of the terrain.
Declan Butler talks to Patrick Hogan, manager
of NASA's World Wind project, about the software. 01 September
2006