News tagged with lunar horizon
Model Helps Search for Moon Dust Fountains
(PhysOrg.com) -- In exploration, sometimes you find more than what you're looking for, including things that shouldn’t be there. As the Apollo 17 astronauts orbited over the night side of the moon, with the ...
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Jun 10, 2010 |
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Otherworldly Solar Eclipse
For the first time, a spacecraft from Earth has captured hi-resolution images of a solar eclipse while orbiting another world.
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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Total eclipse of the moon
Waking up before sunrise can be tough to do, especially on a weekend. On Saturday, Dec. 10th, you might be glad you did. A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible in the early morning skies of ...
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Dec 05, 2011 |
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STAR TRAK for December
Venus will be at its dazzling brightest as December begins, appearing in the southwestern sky after sunset. This beautiful "evening star" will set two hours after the sun on Dec. 1 and an hour later at month's end.
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Dec 01, 2011 |
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LRO camera team releases high resolution global topographic map of moon
(PhysOrg.com) -- The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created.
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Nov 17, 2011 |
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Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere
How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Armstrong relives historic Moon landing
It's more than 40 years since Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon, but his memories of the historic flight remain as undimmed as his passion for further exploration of space.
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Aug 29, 2011 |
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Like no other view on Earth
You think your vacation pictures are impressive? Try to imagine what it was like 45 years ago as scientists and engineers produced the very first images of our planet from deep space.
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Aug 24, 2011 |
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Happy 40th anniversary, Apollo 15!
This month is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 15 launch. This mission was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program and the fourth to the Moon. The Apollo 15 mission is important because it was another ...
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Jul 27, 2011 |
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Hubble discovers another moon around Pluto
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey ...
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Jul 20, 2011 |
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NASA prepares satellite for a new era of Earth observation
On Christmas Eve in 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts orbiting the moon snapped an ethereal photo of our cloud-speckled blue planet rising over the lunar horizon with a hand-held camera.
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Apr 22, 2011 |
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Super full moon
Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years.
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Mar 17, 2011 |
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