... 8 was launched from an Earth orbiting platform, Tyazheliy Sputnik, towards the Moon ... objectives were investigations of the Moon and circumlunar space and testing of ...
... Moon always points at Earth, and by the time the Moon-Earth line has rotated a full ... Moon orbited the Earth at the same rate as its body rotated around its axis, the ... Moon would make a small angle with the Earth-Moon line (as drawn), allowing ...
... Galileo's next flyby of a moon of Jupiter occurs September 6, 1996, when the spacecraft will come within 155 miles (250 kilometers) of the surface of Ganymede -- the largest moon in the Solar System. ...
... detector LEND and for new results of Moon studies by this instrument The President ... space neutron detector LEND and for new results of Moon studies by this instrument ...
... Moon system; free and forced physical librations the multilayered Moon; 2) to discuss a role of resonant effects at dissipation of internal energy in a lunar core and a mantle due to solar - terrestrial tidal interaction, 3) to describe an internal ...
... Moon across the sky, and the reason the Moon sometimes comes in front of the Sun ... Moon, which is between them, also must be in the plane. (b) In an eclipse of the ...
... The American Heritage Dictionary, 1992 CD-ROM Ed. The Moons of Saturn, Soderblom and Johnson in Scientific American Jan 1982 ... The Galilean Moons of Jupiter, Soderblom in Scientific American Jan 1980 . ...