Le photographe italien Luca Missoni a toujours cultivé une grande passion pour la Lune. Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the landing on the Moon, 'Moon Atlas' is an exciting voyage of discovery to a celestial body that has always continued to fascinate humanity. 'Moon Atlas' includes two main sections: in the first, the Moon is illustrated with more than forty shots in a detailed sequence of phases the second part collects the unpublished chromatic experiments Missoni has made with his photographs.
The book is introduced in a conversation with the artist and presents an extract from the famous astronomy treatise of Galileo Galilei. Subsequently, this passion led him to photograph the ever-changing appearance of the Moon in a rigorous, almost scientific way while, over the years, also pursuing his own artistic project that has been realised with the publication of a Lunar Atlas. His interest in this celestial body originated in childhood when he began to explore the surface with a small telescope, back in the 1960s when space programmes made the first lunar explorations possible. In the image below, impact melt flowed downhill and pooled, where it cooled.The Italian photographer Luca Missoni has always cultivated a great passion for the Moon. The floor of the crater is covered in impact melt, rocks that were heated to such high temperatures during the impact event that they turned to liquid, and flowed across the floor. Tycho's central peak is thought to be material that has rebounded back up after being compressed in the impact, and though it's a peak now, it originated at greater depth than any other portion of the crater. Tycho is also of great scientific interest because it is so well preserved, it is a great place to study the mechanics of how an impact crater forms. The problem is, there aren't that many places for which we've sampled the rocks, and confirming the age of Tycho would help date younger surfaces, which are not well sampled. Planetary surfaces are dated by counting the number of craters on the surface, and comparing that number to the number of craters that formed on a surface for which we know the age by actually sampling the rocks. Directly sampling material from within the crater would help us learn more about not just when Tycho formed, but the ages of terrains on other planets throughout the solar system. This may still seem old, but compared to the 3.9 billion-year age for many large lunar craters, Tycho is the new kid on the block. So if these samples are truly from Tycho, the crater formed 108 million years ago as well. These samples are impact melt glass, and radiometric age dating tells us that they formed 108 million years ago. How old is Tycho? Because the impact event scattered material to such great distances, it's thought that some of the samples at the Apollo 17 landing site originated at the Tycho impact site. All craters start out looking like this after they form, but their rays gradually fade away as they sit on the surface, exposed to the space environment which over time darkens them until they fade into the background. It formed recently enough that its beautiful rays, material ejected during the impact event, are still visible as bright streaks. What really makes Tycho stand out is its relative youth. At 53 miles (85 kilometers) in diameter, it is just one among thousands similary-sized craters. Tycho's prominence is not due to its size. It appears as a bright spot in the southern highlands with rays of bright material that stretch across much of the nearside. Tycho Crater is one of the most prominent craters on the Moon.
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