... He was attempting to confirm his observation, made just the previous week, that Neptune had a ring. ... Surveyor 6 was not the first spacecraft to accomplish a soft landing on the Moon ... but it was the first to land and then lift off again! ... The moon Metis, 25 miles wide and about 80,000 miles from the planet, is the bright spot at the upper right. ... First, a telescope brings starlight falling over a large area to a small area. ... The Leonid Meteor Shower . ... Uranus: The Tilted Planet . ...