@ApolloPlus40 - Transient lunar phenomena
"During the Apollo 11 mission, members of the Lunar International Observer Network (LION) made continuous observations of a lunar area where illuminations had been noted. At 18:45 GMT (2:45 p.m. EDT), the astronauts sighted an illumination in the Aristarchus region, the first time that a lunar transient event was sighted by an observer in space. The sighting was confirmed by a LION observer in West Germany."
NASA Office for Manned Space Flight, “Manned Space Flight Weekly Report - August 11, 1969.”
Some modern TLP astronomy research.
See Nature News coverage here (13 May 2009).
This blog post is part of the @ApolloPlus40 series, which accompanies the ApolloPlus40 Twitter project by Nature News, a re-telling of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, 40 years later.
