Tell us your moon memories

George Melies’ film “A Trip to the Moon” expresses the enduring fascination mankind has felt for its crater-filled satellite 238,900 miles from Earth. Artist Nik Vik reinterpreted the iconic 1902 film image (itself inspired by the works of writer Jules Verne) on the “Remains Mural” on Industrial Way at Columbia Street.

 Kirby Neumann-Rea

News items, both from Jan. 3: NASA craft New Horizons photographs Ultima Thule, a “small, icy object, the most distant celestial object ever explored,” states the Associated Press. It is 21 miles long, 4.5 billion years old and 4 billion miles away.

In a historic first, China has landed a rover on the dark side of the moon. China’s National Space Administration landed the craft, officially named Chang’e 4 in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the moon’s largest and oldest impact crater.