News tagged with lunar orbit
Partial lunar eclipse will take place on 31st December
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a lunar eclipse, the Earth, Sun and Moon are almost exactly in line and the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun.
Chang'E-1 has blazed a new trail in China's deep space exploration
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Dec 01, 2009 |
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A huge amount of scientific data have been accumulated by the CE-1 lunar orbiter. Using laser altimeter data, Jinsong Ping and Qian Huang et al obtained improved 3D lunar topography, and based on this, they ...
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China to launch second lunar probe: state media
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Nov 27, 2009 |
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China will launch its second moon orbiter next October, state media reported Friday, as it powers ahead with a space programme that has sparked concerns abroad.
Chinese health officials step up flu prevention
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(AP) -- China's Health Ministry warned Friday that the swine flu outbreak in the country could peak over the next several months, especially as hundreds of millions of people return home for the traditional Chinese New Year.
Pioneering images of both martian moons (w/ Video)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the very first time, the martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together. ESA's Mars Express orbiter took these pioneering images last month. Apart from their ‘wow’ ...
Virgin Galactic readies maiden suborbital flight
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Dec 06, 2009 |
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British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft on Monday that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space -- for a mere 200,000 dollars. (Update: Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship) ...
Cassini closes in on the centuries-old mystery of Saturn's moon Iapetus
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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Extensive analyses and modeling of Cassini imaging and heat-mapping data have confirmed and extended previous ideas that migrating ice, triggered by infalling reddish dust that darkens and warms the surface, ...
A faint star orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor discovered
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Next time you spy the Big Dipper, keep in mind that there is another star, invisible to the unaided eye, contributing to this constellation.
Best (Meteor) Shower of 2009 - No Towel Required
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bundle up and get ready to watch a fiery lightshow stirred up by dead comets in Earth's upper atmosphere during the cold of winter in the dead of night. The annual Geminid meteor shower is ...
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