Moon Buggy

Good evening, and welcome to the surface of the moon. There was a time when it was considered unusual to tour the moon. Back then, a moon buggy was a ramshackle affair. Rather slow over the terrain with a design that left its passengers exposed to the elements. These days you can travel in style. No space suit required. Please feel free to recline your seat. They go all the way back and enjoy the view. Take in the white mountains in the distance, the vast plain of silver dust, and the foreshortened horizon giving way to the black expanse of space peppered with stars. I spend more time up here than most and even I never get bored of it. I know you're keen to get started, but before we begin, I think it's nice to start with a little wind down. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. So no matter what's been going on today, whether it's been a busy day or a calm one, this is an opportunity to put everything down. To let go of any inner chatter and find a place of rest in both the body and the mind. So first, get yourself comfortable in bed. Just taking a moment to pause and be still. And when you're ready, taking a big deep breath. Breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth. And as you breathe out, allowing the body to sink down into your bed, feeling the weight of the body, allowing thoughts to come and go. Now, imagining a steady flow of warm sunlight flowing down through the body, dissolving any tension, any discomfort as it begins to fill the body. Starting with the toes, moving up through the feet and the legs. Being filled with sunlight, the qualities of warmth, space, and ease as it continues to travel up through the body. Up past the waist to the back and the stomach. It's as though it washes away any discomfort. It continues up through the chest and the back into the shoulders and down the arms, all the way down to the hands and fingers. A sense of relief in the body and stillness in the mind. As it continues to travel up through the neck and the throat into the head and the face, all the way to the very top of the body until there's nothing other than that sense of stillness remaining. And now just gently bringing the attention back to the body. Here we are, at the edge of what might be the moon's most famous crater: Copernicus. It was named after the astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus, who first proposed that the earth orbited the sun rather than vice versa. From here, on the crater's lip, the magnificent terraced walls drop 3.8 kilometers down to the floor. You'll notice the crater floor, northwest from where we're parked, glints brightly in the sunlight, and that's because the ground there is veneered with melted rocks that were left...