#imbrium

[without-ado]

Moon's Mare Imbrium l Manuel Huss

[sadanduncertain]

Character portraits I did for our DnD campaign!

[snail-eggs]

Savior Complex: Seryn Moonsilver + Alys Imbrium

the double (2013)/ your best american girl, mitski / h of h playbook, Anne Carson / fleabag (2016-2019) / challengers (2024) / graceland too, Phoebe Bridgers / June Gehringer / savior complex, Phoebe Bridgers / Badlands (1973) / These Violent Delights, Micah Neveremer

[quiltofstars]

Mare Imbrium, the “Sea of Showers”, Plato Crater (top center), and Copernicus Crater (bottom right) // Walter Leonhard Schramböck

[goldfincher]

[theofficialastronomy101]

Mare Imbrium sunrise

[livingforstars]

A Violet Moon - July 31st, 1996.

"Checking out the Galileo spacecraft's cameras during its December, 1992 flyby of Earth's Moon, controllers took this dramatically illuminated picture through a violet filter. The view looks down on the Moon's north polar region, with the Sun shining from the left at a low angle, and the direction toward the Moon's North pole toward the lower right. Across the image's upper left stretches the smooth volcanic plain of the Mare Imbrium. Pythagoras crater, 65 miles wide, is near the center of the image - mostly in shadow, its central peak just catches the sunlight. On July 30th, 1996, the Moon made its closest approach to Earth and was full for the second time in July. The closest point in the Moon's orbit is referred to as Lunar Perigee, a mere 221,797 miles at 8 hours UT. The second full Moon in a month is known as a "Blue Moon"."

[phthalology]

Let me tell you, little thrall, the reason why the Witness revealed itself to humanity at Mare Imbrium. 

It begins, as all things do, with the Hive. You may feel some shred of questioning shed on your arm. Did your wizard not just say this was a story of the Witness? Is the Witness not older than the Hive, and strange to us? Nevertheless, you are in our tunnels. The universe is full of emerald and onyx. Peel the shred of questioning off. 

Now, Savathûn did not know of the existence of the Witness, but she suspected. It was uncouth to say that something was pulling the strings of the Hive, being as the Hive were all-eating and left nothing but themselves behind. Still, Savathûn investigated secrets and unspoken things, and thought that the sword logic might be creating a throne just to harness the energy of an eternal vacancy.

Around this time, Crota’s brood took Earth’s Moon without even most of the fleet behind them, Sol’s citizenry running as low on their hoonish little spaceships as they did. 

Crota had ambition and bite and a certain blind devotion which Savathûn knew well.

After all, she had done so much good work faking it. 

Oryx was deep in the galactic center, finding treasures; Xivu Arath was in forever war with the Cabal Empire; Savathûn had been to Sol before and accompanied her brother’s brood as Crota took the Moon. And meanwhile, she had her own experiments, her own black-slab projects. Savathûn’s cunning arts untangled the DNA of the worms. It was heretical to slice those little gods apart, but she did it, and Nokris helped. Through this, she became fond of her nephew’s penchant for soul fire and pickling vats. Through this, she learned enough to ask the worm gods who their gods were.

They answered Rhulk, and the glaive with which he killed his father. 

This meeting of Rhulk and Savathûn before Crota’s brood had hardly scratched furrows in the Moon is the topic of another story. Finally, a victim higher up the chain answered My Witness. 

With this confession, that watcher turned a few of its eyes to the Hive. 

With a discerning eye for the sorts of injustices which caused both material and morale harm, the Witness set its sights on Savathûn’s pet project, Earth.

The child who had once been Sathona felt the universe coiling around her in static-fuzzed black tendrils of fear as she stood on a grand tombship at L2. Nokris skulked behind her.

And so did the Witness raze the Moon, upon which had formerly crawled Crota’s nearly-newborn brood, and upon which happened to be a few Guardian fireteams. The Witness began to enact the Final Shape upon the Moon for revenge against Savathûn, who had dared to investigate it and to lie to it, as she was wont. 

Come here, little thrall. This story is a secret. Did you know that? I am a confidant of Savathûn and I must practice my stories, practice my histories. I must test them in different situations and for different people, so that I get the words just right. But the Queen of Lies suffers few truth-tellers. No, don’t scuttle away. A Guardian or a Tormentor would have gotten you eventually. It’s statistically likely. Look. That hurts. Don’t bite. There --There. 

(This is a Destiny ten-year anniversary project. Context here.)

[synnthamonsugar]

First Crota Fireteam Beach AU (Pt. II) for @D2ArtEvents Solar Embrace Vol. 5!

Beneath the waves of Mare Imbrium, Luna's "Sea of Rains", Sai Mota and Eris Morn investigate the Hellmouth, a marine sinkhole of uncharted depth and unknown mysteries ... what might they find inside?

[meklarian]

Strawberry Moon and Select Features:

Moon

Tycho, crater

Mare Tranquillitatis, Sea of Tranquility

Copernicus (center) and Kepler (left), craters

Mare Imbrium, Sea of Showers

Mare Crisium, Sea of Crises

Oceanus Procellarum, Ocean of Storms

Los Angeles, California, USA June, 2024

[without-ado]

Moon's Mare Imbrium & Mare Serenitatis l tomboland

[lloke]

From the 70s SF novel I'm reading (The Jupiter Theft by Donald Moffitt):

More than a hundred of them were milling noisily in the narrow aisles: tourists returning from Mare Imbrium and Eurostation’s vacation inn, lunies, scientific and support personnel. They clutched their little souvenir packs with the ounce of Moon rock and the bottle of vacuum, and called back and forth to one another.

The idea of bringing back a bottle of vacuum as a souvenir from space is deeply appealing to me somehow (it would be a nice addition to my collection lol). I googled around to see if anything like that had actually been done, and it turns out it has!

[snail-eggs]

[quiltofstars]

Sinus Iridum (”The Bay of Rainbows”, lower left), Pythagoras crater (upper left), and Plato crater (center right) // Carlos

Sinus Iridum, “The Bay of Rainbows,” is an extension to the Mare Imbrium, “The Sea of Showers.” It was the original planned landing site of the Chinese lunar mission, Chang’e 3 in 2013.

Pythagoras crater is named after the famous Greek philosopher Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 BC - 495 BC), probably most famous for his mathematical theorem relating the sides of a right triangle.

Plato crater is named after the equally famous Greek philosopher Plato (c. 428 BC - 348 BC), who’s philosophical treatises have been read for millennia.

[eclipse89]

here's a collection of all my close-up lunar crater and mare shots, with corresponding names:

Plato, Mare Imbrium and Sinus Iridum

Tycho and Clavius

Manilius and Mare Vaporum

Langrenus and Mare Fecunditatis

Posidonius and Mare Serenitatis

Gassendi and Mare Humorum

Aristarchus

photos all by me

[theofficialastronomy101]

Ridge along Plato and Sinus Iridum near Mare Imbrium