... that hard as they approached the lunarsurface; they throttled down to about 3000 ... In other words, the lunarsurface is so bright that it easily lights up the shadows ...
... illuminated in shadow are not an "anomaly" but a predictable result of sunlight reflecting off the sunlit lunarsurface ... These lunarsurface panoramas A B (scroll right) are assembled from single photos and show Apollo-15 astronaut David Scott at ...
... a sense, that line is correct: the Moon is actually very dark: it only reflects on average about 10% of the light that hits it (the specific reflectivity changes depending on the lunarsurface; some parts are very dark, while others can be pretty bright ...
... in 1999, scientists let the orbiting probe Lunar Prospector impact the Moon's surface in hopes that they could detect water on ... After impact, Hawk would have been a greasy smear on the lunarsurface. ...
... When Armstrong's boot touched the lunarsurface, the human race was no longer bound by the Earth's gravity. ... Then go peruse some pictures from the lunarsurface , and then roam the rich imagery at Kipp Teague's astonishing Apollo ...
... Lunar Impact. ... the small piece of metal called Lunar Prospector began silently orbiting the Moon ... evaporates quickly away in the two week long lunar day, but at the poles there are ...
... years ago, a collision with a rogue planet blasted the Moon from the Earth's surface ... The current theory of lunar formation is indeed that a Mars sized planet collided ...