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Astronomy and space

Astronomy and space

Mountain climbing on the Moon

27 Apr 2022
Taken from the April 2022 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Walking on the Moon".
Theophilus crater on the Moon
(CC0 James Stuby based on NASA image)
One night in November 1609, Galileo turned his telescope to the Moon and realized that the changing

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John Hardwick is a physicist who has worked at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, NIKHEF and Culham Science Centre
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