{"id":1845295,"date":"2025-12-11T18:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1845295"},"modified":"2025-12-11T18:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:41:57","slug":"luke-jerrams-mirror-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/12\/luke-jerrams-mirror-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Jerram&#8217;s Mirror Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Installation artist Luke Jerram\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lukejerram.com\/artworks\/\">past work<\/a> includes large reproductions of the Earth, Moon, Sun and Mars. His latest is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lukejerram.com\/mirror-moon\/\">Mirror Moon<\/a>, a touchable stainless steel globe of the Moon created with NASA topographic data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mirror Moon. Artwork by Luke Jerram\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bXg0K1QRgCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A one-metre version of Mirror Moon <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/science-events-and-lectures\/2024\/07\/mirror-moon-luke-jerram\/\">debuted at the Royal Society<\/a> last year. A larger, two-metre version i<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/royal-observatory\/attractions\/mirror-moon\">s coming to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich next March<\/a> to mark its 350th anniversary. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/stories\/art-culture\/reaching-moon\">Jerram discusses the project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installation artist Luke Jerram\u2019s past work includes large reproductions of the Earth, Moon, Sun and Mars. His latest is Mirror Moon, a touchable stainless steel globe of the Moon created with NASA topographic data. A&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/12\/luke-jerrams-mirror-moon\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[{"did":"did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo","date":"2025-12-11T23:42:09+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m7qqsrirlf2r","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m7qqsrirlf2r\",\"cid\":\"bafyreicmj3mjtbxszozy3gce2hvqodzzsmkuo526cjy2cezgtzdrm3nkum\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreiaobwxljtdbyvzmg26l7pphomjch7hxfgwlcolyrmjgiijtjbtbze\",\"rev\":\"3m7qqsrjb7f2r\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[26,350,63,1165],"class_list":["post-1845295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","category-astronomy","tag-globes","tag-installation","tag-moon","tag-public-installations","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787347,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/the-ordnance-survey-releases-a-moon-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1845295,"position":0},"title":"The Ordnance Survey Releases a Moon Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 May 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first crewed landing on the Moon, the Ordnance Survey has released a map of the Apollo 11 landing site. 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Opening today at The Map House in London, The Mapping of the Moon: 1669-1969, an exhibition of three centuries of lunar cartography. \"The exhibition\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/national-geographic-moon.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/national-geographic-moon.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/national-geographic-moon.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/national-geographic-moon.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1788310,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/unified-geologic-map-of-the-moon\/","url_meta":{"origin":1845295,"position":2},"title":"Unified Geologic Map of the Moon","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 January 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"A new unified geologic map of the Moon, based on digital renovations that updated 1970s-era geologic maps to match more recent topographic and image data gathered by lunar orbiters, was released by the USGS last month. 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