Moon Trees

[PercyKittenz]

On a science and technology site, someone posted an interesting article about Moon Trees, something I'd never heard of. The name sounds bizarre, but during the Apollo 14 mission, NASA took along a number of seedlings to see if the trees that grew from them had any unusual side effects from radiation that they were exposed to on the space voyage. These seeds were planted all over the world, mostly in the US and UK.

 

It seems to me that these monuments are things which most people have never heard of as they blend in with our every day surroundings... just like Geocaches. There may even be one in your neck of the woods and you'd never know. But place a cache there, and it's a spot that will be sure to lure cachers to see it. From a quick search, I see that there is already one cache placed at a Moon Tree in San Luis Obispo, California: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...81-0ccdbdd051e8

 

This website has information about the moon trees and an aproximate location of where the ones planted in the United States are. Go out and plant a cache! http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/moon_tree.html

[+KC0GRN]

There's a locationless cache setup to document where the moon trees are, so if you need coordinates, check here.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=34256

 

Sadly, it seems Minnesota has no moon trees....

Edited July 25, 2005 by KC0GRN

[+Gecko1]

It sounds like there are 2 In Tallahassee, Fl. where I live. Who knows, I may make caches near them.