
Image: Galileo Galilei, drawings of the Moon from Sidereus nuncius (Venice, 1610) · Public domain
A Knaph story
The Story of the Moon
How people learned where moonlight comes from, and what the Moon is made of
c. 700 BCE – today
Borrowed light, a red Moon in the Earth's shadow, mountains seen through a telescope, seas with no water and footprints in the dust: how people slowly came to understand the Moon.
A Knaph story
The Story of the Moon
How people learned where moonlight comes from, and what the Moon is made of
c. 700 BCE – today
Borrowed light, a red Moon in the Earth's shadow, mountains seen through a telescope, seas with no water and footprints in the dust: how people slowly came to understand the Moon.