Hello my little moonpies, Trace here
with the lowdown on lunar lochs!
This week well get the second to
last full moon of 2020 -- a.k.a
the Beaver Moon -- because this is when our
buck-toothed friends start prepping for winter.
The full moon is a beautiful thing, but
have you ever stopped to think about
WHAT you re looking at? On the surface of the
moon are these light and dark spots called
Mare -- Latin for sea. They were erroneously
thought to be oceans by early astronomers.
Today we know Maria are plains of
volcanic basalt left from cooled
lava flows. There are about twenty Mare
so I won t list them all. BUT the Apollo
landing took place at the south end of the Sea
of Tranquility or Mare Tranquillitatis -- here!
This week, once ya ll are done scarfing
turkey and fighting about well everything
why not pop outside and drop some fun
facts about our celestial satellite?
Happy Thanksgiving, USA -- and keep lookin up.