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Keywords: crater, Moon
![Четверти Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/10/22/0001910520/quartermoon2022date.preview.jpeg)
21.10.2023
Half way between New Moon and Full Moon is the Moon's first quarter phase. That's a quarter of the way around its moonthly orbit. At the first quarter phase, half the Moon's visible side is illuminated by sunlight.
![Полная Луна, полный Марс](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/12/15/0001863105/MarsTrailsSMALL1024.preview.jpg)
15.12.2022
On December 8 a full Moon and a full Mars were close, both bright and opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. In fact Mars was occulted, passing behind the Moon when viewed from some locations across Europe and North America.
![Лунная пыль и клейкая лента](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/12/14/0001862940/AS17-137-20979_1024.preview.jpg)
14.12.2022
Why is the Moon so dusty? On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating soil and sand. On the Moon, the history of constant micrometeorite bombardment has blasted away at the rocky surface creating a layer of powdery lunar soil or regolith.
![Лунная пыль и липкая лента](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/04/19/0001197693/ducttape_apollo17.preview.jpg)
17.04.2004
Why is the Moon dusty? On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating soil and sand. On the Moon, the long history of micrometeorite bombardment has blasted away at the rocky surface creating a layer of powdery lunar soil or regolith. This lunar regolith could be a scientific and industrial bonanza.
![Лунная пыль](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/08/0001199886/ducttape_apollo17.preview.jpg)
10.11.2001
Why is the Moon dusty? On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating soil and sand. On the Moon, the long history of micrometeorite bombardment has blasted away at the rocky surface creating a layer of powdery lunar soil or regolith. This lunar regolith could be a scientific and industrial bonanza.
![Матрица лунации](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/10/02/0001850426/Lu20220729-0826_1050.preview.jpg)
1.10.2022
Observe the Moon every night and you'll see its visible sunlit portion gradually change. In phases progressing from New Moon to Full Moon to New Moon again, a lunar cycle or lunation is completed in about 29.5 days.
![Лунная корона над Парижем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/05/30/0001930675/EiffelCorona_Binotto_960.preview.jpg)
30.05.2024
Why does a cloudy moon sometimes appear colorful? The effect, called a lunar corona, is created by the quantum mechanical diffraction of light around individual, similarly-sized water droplets in an intervening but mostly-transparent cloud. Since light of different colors has different wavelengths, each color diffracts differently.
![Затмение Венеры днем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/06/20/0001222469/venuseclipse_heinzen.preview.jpg)
20.06.2007
Something was about to happen. Just two days ago, two of the three celestial objects easily visible during the day appeared to collide. But actually, Earth's Moon passed well in front of the distant planet Venus. The occultation was caught from Switzerland in the hours before sunset.
![Голубой Сатурн](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/02/11/0001202855/mimasBlue_cassini_c68.preview.jpg)
11.02.2005
Serene blue hues highlight this view of Saturn's northern hemisphere from the Cassini spacecraft. The image has been adjusted to approximate the natural blue color of visible sunlight scattered by the gas giant's upper atmosphere.
![Луна и Венера](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/03/15/0001166683/mve1997_tezel_big.preview.jpg)
28.07.2000
July is drawing to a close and in the past few days, some early morning risers could have looked east and seen a crescent Moon sharing the pre-dawn skies with planets Jupiter and Saturn.
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