... January 3, 1998 . The Barren Moon . Credit: Apollo 17 , NASA . ... The above photo , taken as the Apollo 17 astronauts orbited the Moon in 1972, depicts the stark lunar surface around the ...
... The impact theory of lunar origin can explain, for example, why Moon rocks returned by the Apollo missions have the same isotopic ratios as Earth rocks while the Moon seems deficient in heavy elements like iron. ...
... This Moon Hotel design is welcomed by the international Lunar Explorers Society, LUNEX , who hope to construct a robotic Moon base by 2015, ultimately supporting a lunar village by 2040. ...
... While even the darkened surface of our eclipsed Moon will be strongly overexposed, Uranus moons Titania, Oberon, and Umbriel can just be distinguished as faint pinpricks of light. ...
... In his science fiction story "From the Earth to the Moon" , he outlined his vision of a cannon in Florida so powerful that it could shoot a "Projectile-Vehicle" carrying three adventurers to the Moon . ...
... an analemma of the Moon is to understand that on average the Moon returns to the ... Moon 51 minutes later on successive days, over one lunation or lunar month it will ...
... point to Earth in the Moon's orbit, and make it the largest Full Moon of 2013 ... Full Perigee Moon will be on August 10, 2014, the 14th Full Moon after June 23 ... Moons ago, this inspired telescopic night skyscape captured the Full Perigee Moon ...
... 2000 April 6 . Venus, Moon, and Neighbors . Credit Copyright: Joe Orman . ... apparition of the bright morning star Venus near a lovely crescent Moon above a neighbor's house in suburban Phoenix, Arizona ...