The moon is essentially a fossil.

It's only three days away if you can get a rocket big enough to get there.

And it went right up to including winged man bats.

The toenail moon, unsurprisingly, is not an official name.

Hello and welcome to the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me,

Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smothers.

Yeah, this month it's all about our mate, the moon.

And I feel like, Izzy, I want you to put in like despicable me like, Zimmoon!

The moon!

Because I feel like it's only appropriate now that we're finally on

this episode. We've got lots of questions to ask, where did it come from, what do we know about

it and what is still left to discover? I know, I mean, it's only taken us two years to get to this

point, but better late than never, right? So coming up, Professor Catherine Joy from the University of Manchester

will be telling us what past and future lunar missions can tell us.

Plus, I spoke with Dr. Megan Barford about some of the moon maps

that we can find in the Royal Astronomical Society's Library.

And obviously, Dr Robert Massey, the deputy director of the Royal Astronomical Society,

is here with us as always as well.

We talked a bit about this in our December episode, Robert, where we talked about eclipses.

But you literally wrote a book about the moon, so we have the best person here.

Yeah, I did with my friend Alexandra Luska, who is an art historian

and we love this project, I have to say. There's so much actually that's so wonderful about it,

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