Melba Roy Mouton—a NASA mathematician and key figure in the Apollo era—is being honored with the naming of a mountain on the Moon’s South Pole.
Mons Mouton is the future landing site of VIPER, our rover set to explore the lunar surface for Artemis: go.nasa.gov/3xo4mHd #BHM
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Moon Mountain Name Honors NASA Mathematician Melba Mouton
Scientists recently named a mesa-like lunar mountain that towers above the landscape carved by craters near the Moon’s South Pole.Rachel Hoover (NASA)
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in reply to NASA • • •That is quite an honor. I like the symbolism of the south pole as the solar system orbital plane of the ecliptic is in same relationship to the plane of the galaxy rather. Like that which a Ferris Wheel has to the ground.
The heart of the Milky Way is to the south of earth as mapped in the night stars.
I am lucky to have had very dark skies whereby I could see the summer stars and the heart of the Galaxy between the sting of the Scorpion and the Archer or some name , the Teapot.’
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