Tag: Beyond Earth

• Junk on the Moon and Mars: every human-made object on two worlds, mapped

  

  I mapped every human-made object on the Moon and Mars from Wikipedia’s lists: 133 on the Moon and 27 on Mars, 203 tonnes and 10.4 tonnes. A third of the Moon’s junk is five Saturn V rocket stages, and almost all of it is dead.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Beyond Earth, Exploration, Heritage, maps, Present day, space, Space and astronomy, Twentieth century, Wikipedia, world maps

• Who’s on the Moon? The birthplaces of the people we named other worlds after

  

  I traced 2,718 names on the Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars back to the towns where those people were born. 75% of the Moon’s people were born in Europe, and Paris alone outnumbers Africa, South America and Oceania.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Beyond Earth, Birthplaces, Commemoration, Naming, place names, population, Present day, space, Space and astronomy, Wikidata