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Music of Celestial Spheres — part 5 — lunar Odyssey

by Andrey Klimkovsky

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Lunar dust 00:57
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Lunar Noon 02:38
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Moon-machine 03:16
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On a clear moonlit night, when the atmosphere is transparent like crystal, it seems that - stretch out your hand - and you can touch the magical lunar surface. And if you push yourself harder with your feet from the earthly firmament, then you yourself will find yourself in the mysterious Lunar Land. After all, here she is - very close - a dazzling night beauty.

At the beginning of the 17th century G. Galileo directed a telescope to the Moon for the first time and it became clear that the Moon is similar to the Earth. Its surface is not polished to a mirror-like shine (at one time it was believed that the dark and light areas on the lunar disk are reflections of the earth's continents and oceans), but is covered with mountains and depressions. Later, the dark areas were called lunar seas, partly assuming that they are really filled with water, and the light ones, respectively, with continents.

Over the next decades, telescopes have improved, more and more closer to the moon. Along with this, tens and hundreds of science fiction writers sent their heroes to the moon. Anything from balloons to giant projectiles worked. In the middle of the 20th century, spaceships appeared on the way to the Moon, and in the end, a person approached the Moon so much that on July 20, 1969, he picked up a stone from the lunar surface.

At the moment, humanity continues to explore the moon with very specific goals. In a fairly close prospect, the creation of inhabited lunar stations, and then huge lunar cities, and tourist flights to the moon will become available to everyone.

Let's mentally fast forward to the middle of the XXI century and take a fascinating journey in the Lunar world already a little mastered by people. And to do this, insert this disc into your music center, turn off the lights, close your eyes and go!
Mid-XXI century, you are at one of the Earth's spaceports, located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. From here, liners leave for the Moon several times a day. Anyone can board such a ship. The titanium slabs are polished to a high gloss. Evening falls imperceptibly. Dazzling purple spotlights come on. There are messages about the launches of ships, teams of dispatchers and special services.

The young moon is shining. Here, next to the skyward bodies of ships, the crescent moon seems huge and close. I want to reach out to him with my hand. And you decide. The liner chair is gently lowered, taking the shape of your body. The belts are fastened and the countdown is already playing in the headsets: 5, 4, 3, 2 ... A tremendous push presses you into the chair, the cosmodrome lights in the windows are smeared into vertical lines. And your interplanetary liner rushes into the sky. It only needs a few minutes to go into low-earth orbit, but from there a second start awaits you and the engines turn on again. Again, the overload pushes you into the chair. The liner leaves low-earth orbit and goes to the Moon. Hundreds of thousands of kilometers to the Moon, the spacecraft flies at a speed of about 10 km / s and with the engines turned off, being in free fall, and you will have to spend these few hours of flight in a state of weightlessness. No movement is felt, and only if you look through the window from time to time, you can see how the Earth is receding.

When the moon is very close, the engines turn on again to slow down the ship and not fly by. The weight falls on you again. Landing begins. It would be very interesting to be close to the first pilot and watch him lead the liner to land, but everything that can be seen from the cockpit is broadcast on huge screens located on all decks of the ship. The lunar spaceport is approaching. The controller cleared the landing, and although day has not yet come in this region of the moon, the lunar landscape is clearly visible in the light of the searchlights. We are landing on the uncharted bottom of the Sea of ​​Clarity for billions of years. We are met by the Lunar Station, where we await dawn.

At dawn, a light off-road vehicle drives up to the Lunar Station. You are invited on a tour of the lunar surface, but you are still offered to put on a spacesuit. The moon does not yet have its own atmosphere. The terminator line is slowly leaving the cosmodrome, the Lunar Station; the tracks of the all-terrain vehicle start moving and the journey on the moon begins. The slabs of the cosmodrome run out and, leaving on the frozen surface of the lunar sea, the all-terrain vehicle leaves imprints of its tracks in the moon dust. They are destined to survive here for a long time - after all, there is no rain or wind on the moon. Through the window, you can see how the dazzlingly bright disk of the Sun rises towards another star hanging almost at the zenith of the lunar sky. It is four times the size of the Sun, blue in color and has the appearance of a crescent moon. What is it? Yes, this is the Earth! But how difficult it is to think about it. The sun rises higher and higher, closer to the Earth, and the Earth is lost in its rays.

The devices of the all-terrain vehicle show that the temperature of the lunar soil is + 150 ° С. Deprived of an atmosphere, the Moon suffers greatly from solar radiation. No earthly machine could withstand such a heat, especially since this heat lasts on the moon for two weeks according to the earth's calendar. But lunar machines have a special cooling system and therefore they do not care about the lunar heat. And you can feel safe in a spacesuit.

Lunar afternoon comes, shadows disappear. A mountain range appeared on the horizon. These are the lunar Alps. Back in the 18th century, Jan Hevelius gave the mountains of the moon earthly names and they took root, but in reality they bear little resemblance to their earthly sisters. Dead, devoid of vegetation at the foot and snowy peaks, they can be more insidious than the earthly mountains. And only the fact that the force of gravity on the Moon is 6 times less than that of the Earth will help us overcome them. We let go of the all-terrain vehicle - the lunar mountains are beyond its strength - it will meet us in the Sea of ​​Rains, where we will find ourselves crossing the Alps ...

Bay of Rainbows. Here we make a break after a long journey. Somewhere here - on the outskirts of the Sea of ​​Rains, the Lunokhod - the first explorer of the lunar labyrinths - got lost. Once upon a time, communication with him was interrupted, but who knows, maybe he is still rolling through the lunar deserts, revealing one after another lunar secrets ...

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released April 24, 1999

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Andrey Klimkovsky Moscow, Russia

Andrey Klimkovsky is one of leading russian composers working in the electronic musical space. Images creating by him - "Music of Celestial Spheres", "Starry Sky", "ALEALA" и "DreamOcean" - stayed the classics of the genre, received popularity as in Russia, and abroad. ... more

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