NASA invites ISRO to join Moon base program while James Webb locates host galaxy for fast radio burst and NASA abandons Lunar Gateway.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-10 19:38Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A crowded NASA control room in Houston with Indian space officials and NASA engineers gathered around a large lunar base model under a bright skylight, as screens are absent and faces are intent on the scale model of the Moon's surface.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A crowded NASA control room in Houston with Indian space officials and NASA engineers gathered around a large lunar base model under a bright skylight, as screens are absent and faces are intent on the scale model of the Moon's surface. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
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NASA selects three lunar science projects ahead of planned permanent base
Announced 9 October 2026, the studies will evaluate conditions required for long term human presence on the Moon.
By Yara Castellanos · 3wWASHINGTON, USA, Sept. 30, 2026 - NASA has selected three scientific research projects to assess lunar conditions before establishing a permanent human base on the Moon.
Each project targets a distinct gap in knowledge required to operate the base. The LEMS-SP project will conduct long-term monitoring of lunar hazards including micrometeoroids and moonquakes. The DISCO instrument will map, measure and characterize water ice deposits in permanently shadowed lunar regions. The GIMLI instrument will investigate the Marius Hills lunar pit to confirm if it connects to usable ancient lava tube shelters.
A December 2025 executive order directs NASA to develop a launch-ready lunar surface fission reactor by 2030 to support the base. That system, designated Lunar Reactor-1, is scheduled to reach launch-ready status by that date.
NASA also confirmed the SR-1 Freedom spacecraft, designed to demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion, is scheduled to launch to Mars in 2028. This mission will mark the transition of nuclear propulsion from laboratory research to operational deep-space application.
Impact Insight. Water ice in permanently shadowed lunar craters could one day supply drinking water, oxygen and rocket propellant for crews. The link to planetary defense is partly direct: monitoring micrometeoroids on the lunar surface shows how often small space rocks strike, and building on the Moon develops the deep-space capability future asteroid missions would need.
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