{"id":1747,"date":"2017-03-09T23:02:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondschatz.com\/?page_id=1747\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T23:07:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:07:23","slug":"aroundthemoon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/en\/aroundthemoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_section-f3c1930b13a6693c650796c737741de6\">\n.avia-section.av-av_section-f3c1930b13a6693c650796c737741de6{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/planetsystem_v001.jpg);\nbackground-position:0% 0%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n.avia-section.av-av_section-f3c1930b13a6693c650796c737741de6 .av-section-color-overlay{\nopacity:0.7;\nbackground-color:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-f3c1930b13a6693c650796c737741de6 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-full-stretch avia-bg-style-scroll av-section-color-overlay-active container_wrap fullsize'  data-section-bg-repeat='stretch'><div class=\"av-section-color-overlay-wrap\"><div class=\"av-section-color-overlay\"><\/div><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1747'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c av_two_third  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-6534c5f6749715a8aeed360928cc8fd1\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-6534c5f6749715a8aeed360928cc8fd1{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-6534c5f6749715a8aeed360928cc8fd1 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-6534c5f6749715a8aeed360928cc8fd1 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-6534c5f6749715a8aeed360928cc8fd1 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  av-thin-font'><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Mission <strong>Mondschatz<\/strong><\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_textblock-7630f3aa3dde3e09a8dbcd059ed99a21\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-av_textblock-7630f3aa3dde3e09a8dbcd059ed99a21 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:14px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-7630f3aa3dde3e09a8dbcd059ed99a21 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stuttgart-based goldsmith Sonja Waldraff worked for many years in the visual effects industry. Now, with her Moon Treasure (Mondschatz) range of jewellery she is combining both worlds \u2013 highly detailed technique and centuries old crafting skills. Together with her husband, Michael Thalmann, they have developed and refined a small but fine collection of jewellery for those of a cosmological bent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Working with a highly skilled team (our special thanks to Miriam, Jan and Herr Fessler) we have produced the finished collection. Hand-crafted in Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Moon Treasure (Mondschatz) is a unique range of high-end jewellery featuring topographically accurate 3D representations of the lunar landscape &#8211; the first ever to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Especially suited to astronauts, cosmonauts, topographers, couples, inter-galactic princesses, treasure hunters and somnambulists.<\/p>\n<p>Our Moon-Rings, Sputnik and Apollo, both feature a topographically accurate strip of the Moon&#8217;s equator.<\/p>\n<p>Our Moon Pendants, &#8220;The Face&#8221; and&#8221;The Dark Side&#8221; are half-moons (i.e. hemispheres), one featuring the face of the moon as we Earthlings see it, the other featuring the dark side as Michael Collins saw it in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to see &#8211; and feel &#8211; the textural differences between the two sides. The near side, where all of the Apollo missions landed, is fairly smooth as a result of the vast lava &#8220;seas&#8221; with which it is largely covered. The dark side is much more textured being, as it is, almost entirely covered in craters &#8211; the result of millennia upon millennia of asteroid impacts.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_fifth-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_fifth-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_fifth-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2 av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_section-578caea6b6648648b9889688dcc783a0\">\n.avia-section.av-av_section-578caea6b6648648b9889688dcc783a0{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/moonmap_v001.jpg);\nbackground-position:0% 0%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n.avia-section.av-av_section-578caea6b6648648b9889688dcc783a0 .av-section-color-overlay{\nopacity:0.5;\nbackground-color:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='process'  class='avia-section av-av_section-578caea6b6648648b9889688dcc783a0 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  avia-full-stretch avia-bg-style-scroll av-section-color-overlay-active container_wrap fullsize'  data-section-bg-repeat='stretch'><div class=\"av-section-color-overlay-wrap\"><div class=\"av-section-color-overlay\"><\/div><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1747'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_fifth-a184a5d552ffdf96eefe5786e0b84bee\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_fifth-a184a5d552ffdf96eefe5786e0b84bee{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:10px 10px 10px 10px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_fifth-a184a5d552ffdf96eefe5786e0b84bee av_two_fifth  avia-builder-el-6  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-3939291606d73c33ff653f72406f6d5c\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-3939291606d73c33ff653f72406f6d5c{\nheight:150px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-3939291606d73c33ff653f72406f6d5c hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-7  el_before_av_video  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-video av-av_video-c162a9fbe45e0adf26c96749ba66f79f avia-video-16-9 av-no-preview-image avia-video-load-always av-lazyload-immediate av-lazyload-video-embed'  itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/vimeo.com\/202609149'><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/202609149?autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&muted=0\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Mondschatz - Making of Apollo\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_three_fifth-3c6c15e370c178aa9db02375eeeab859\">\n.flex_column.av-av_three_fifth-3c6c15e370c178aa9db02375eeeab859{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px;\nbackground-color:#d0d7e8;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_three_fifth-3c6c15e370c178aa9db02375eeeab859 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_two_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  flex_column_div  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-9b58eebb41af5a8b5d525b7d74bb52d7\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-9b58eebb41af5a8b5d525b7d74bb52d7{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-9b58eebb41af5a8b5d525b7d74bb52d7 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-9b58eebb41af5a8b5d525b7d74bb52d7 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-9b58eebb41af5a8b5d525b7d74bb52d7 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-10  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  av-thin-font'><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >The <strong>Process<\/strong><\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_textblock-1962acf4ef1dfe1d8353a6fcd78e5ec0\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-av_textblock-1962acf4ef1dfe1d8353a6fcd78e5ec0 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:15px;\ncolor:#000000;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-1962acf4ef1dfe1d8353a6fcd78e5ec0 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock av_inherit_color'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">In 2015 NASA&#8217;s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) science team released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the Moon ever created. This new topographic map shows the surface shape and features over nearly the entire Moon with a pixel scale close to 328 feet.<br class=\"\" \/>Although the Moon is Earth&#8217;s closest neighbour, knowledge of its morphology is still limited. Due to the limitations of previous missions, a global map of the Moon&#8217;s topography at high resolution has not existed before. With LRO&#8217;s Wide Angle Camera and the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter instrument, scientists can now accurately portray the shape of the entire Moon in high resolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">With the help of this amazing new data we &#8211; Mondschatz &#8211; were able to create an exact, walnut-sized, copy of the Moon with just a touch of scaling to compensate for casting losses. Four 3D models were created on the computer: Ring Sputnik, Ring Apollo and two Moon half shells. All the mold were first created in hard wax, and then from each a silicone mold was made. With the help of the silicone molds, wax models were produced, which in turn were embedded in plaster. After melting out the wax, the hollow mold was filled with molten silver and &#8211; Voil\u00e0! &#8211; the basic form of the Moon&#8217;s surface is finished! The pieces are then sawn, filed,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">soldered, sanded and polished\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">by hand. To achieve the\u00a0 as-detailed-as-possible Moon-surface takes several hours per piece.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\">Here is a short demonstration of the development process for Ring Apollo.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_fifth-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_fifth-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_fifth-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_section-f3ef3184801f818cdc6d6d71b78c62e1\">\n.avia-section.av-av_section-f3ef3184801f818cdc6d6d71b78c62e1{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/story_background_v001.jpg);\nbackground-position:0% 0%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n.avia-section.av-av_section-f3ef3184801f818cdc6d6d71b78c62e1 .av-section-color-overlay{\nopacity:0.5;\nbackground-color:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='story'  class='avia-section av-av_section-f3ef3184801f818cdc6d6d71b78c62e1 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-last  avia-full-stretch avia-bg-style-scroll av-section-color-overlay-active container_wrap fullsize'  data-section-bg-repeat='stretch'><div class=\"av-section-color-overlay-wrap\"><div class=\"av-section-color-overlay\"><\/div><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1747'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-6815814f036dce51782ca1b2d426ad60\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-6815814f036dce51782ca1b2d426ad60{\nborder-radius:2px 2px 2px 2px;\npadding:10px 10px 10px 10px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-6815814f036dce51782ca1b2d426ad60 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-14  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div avia-full-stretch  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-268ba9ccc53fb63f6285b402e364cf83\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-268ba9ccc53fb63f6285b402e364cf83{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-268ba9ccc53fb63f6285b402e364cf83 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-268ba9ccc53fb63f6285b402e364cf83 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-268ba9ccc53fb63f6285b402e364cf83 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-15  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  av-thin-font'><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >The <strong>Story<\/strong><\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_textblock-7630f3aa3dde3e09a8dbcd059ed99a21\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-av_textblock-7630f3aa3dde3e09a8dbcd059ed99a21 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:14px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-7630f3aa3dde3e09a8dbcd059ed99a21 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">At the age of four I asked my father to lasso the Moon for me. I don&#8217;t know where I got that idea from, but a few days later my parents painted stars and a crescent moon on the door of my bedroom.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Fast-forward twenty years, and I&#8217;m studying to be a goldsmith. As my graduation piece I took a mini gold ingot and started to reconstruct the Moon in as much detail as I could muster. However, the time was not yet ripe and I wasn&#8217;t satisfied with the result. I didn&#8217;t want a purely artistic impression of the Moon &#8211; why try to improve upon something so beautiful? &#8211; I wanted every crater, every sea, every mountain to be depicted with topographical exactness. (But a bit smaller&#8230;)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Fast-forward another twenty years. My daughter is about the same age as I was when my lunar fascination began, my husband and I are on an unsuccessful hunt for friendship rings, and NASA release a high-resolution map of the Moon&#8217;s surface. This all came together in my mind and took me back to that burning childhood desire. Well, one thing led to another and finally I was able to lasso the Moon\u2026;).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1747","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1747\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondschatz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}