... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ...
... of a connection between two unrelated observations--the period of the Moon and the acceleration on Earth due to gravity ... the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon ...
... Reply . Dynamo currents at Jupiter's moons . Reply . A Russian space tether experiment? . Reply . ... Magnetic effects from other planets . Blocking of the Solar Wind by our Moon? . Fry or Freeze... ? . The Speed of the Solar Wind . ...
... I do not have a magnetic map of the moon, but your students may look at one of Mars, which is also magnetized in patches, and appreciably more strongly than the Moon (though it lacks a core field like the Earth's). ...
... The Moon has patches of magnetized rocks and might have had a field when those rocks ... found it to be magnetized in patches, like the moon but several times more strongly ...