Moon colors, Newton tribute, Nostromics Newsletter suspends publication

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Nostromics Newsletter, 4 May 2011 - You are welcome to share this mail, see newsletter back issues

The colors of the Moon

The Moon is apparently a black and white world. The only variations seen with telescopes or in spacecraft images seem an endless succession of shades of gray. Yet lunar rocks and landforms do have very subtle colors that can be seen with small telescopes, or, better, with image processing techniques. Saturated color images of the Moon show blue, orange, mustard and red areas whose colors reflect local rock composition.

A tribute to Isaac Newton

The 2011 Royal Wedding, yet another wedding of the century, took place at Westminster Abbey in London. It is the same church where great English physicist and astronomer Isaac Newton was buried in on April 4, 1727. In July 1969, after the historical Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle Moon landing, someone left at the tomb a fitting tribute to the 17th century English scientist and his work on gravitation, which made the Moon flights possible. On the tomb there was a bouquet of flowers with a note saying: "Sir Isaac, The Eagle has landed".

Our Isaac Newton Signature Women's T-Shirt features a reproduction of Newton's handwritten signature. We have more products with the same design like Newton signature beer stein and others in theScientists Signatures section of Nostromics Store. More science gifts at Nostromics Store.

Nostromics Newsletter suspends publication

We have decided to suspend the publication of Nostromics Newsletter. The 4 May 2001 issue, the one you are reading, is the last issue we send out. The archive of back issues will remain available online.

Thanks to all of you for the interest and support!

Paolo Amoroso, Mauro Arpino - 4 May 2011

-- Paolo Amoroso & Mauro Arpino (Nostromics), science educators - Milan, Italy

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