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за 2004 год.
First on the Moon
12.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
In January, 1959 the Soviet Union startled the world by launching a spacecraft towards the Moon. It missed by 6000 km but was the first object to escape Earth orbit and the first to pass near the Moon.
A Steep Spot on the Moon
11.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Looking at even the best images from Earth or Lunar Orbiter we seldom get a feeling for the actual heights and slopes of lunar features. But while orbiting the Moon, Apollo astronauts used Hasselblad cameras to take some spectacular low oblique shots and even a few profiles.
Viscous Volcanics?
10.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
One of the weirdest terrains on the Moon is a mound of lumpiness extending north from the crater Descartes. This terrain consists of a series of hills and ridges separated by valleys and depressions. It looks like a super-large, rough-textured lava flow erupted in Deslandres and flowed over the crater wall to the north.
Eight is Enough
9.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
The Moon is the most incredible object in the night sky - at least visually. Hour by hour and night by night it moves across the sky, changing its illuminated shape. This progression is dramatically illustrated in a mosaic from eight consecutive nights of imaging by Peter Lawrence.
Where in the Moon is Nielsen?
8.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
I must admit that I have never heard of the crater Nielsen, but then I realized that this was another unnecessary naming change left over from those nomenclaturally wild 1970s. Nielsen, named for both...
Helen's Husband
7.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Although the lunar crater Menelaus is named for a Greek astronomer in ancient Alexandria, I prefer to think instead of another Menelaus, the warrior husband of Helen of Troy. The lunar Menelaus is a 27 km wide, 2.6 km deep crater straddling the rim of the Serenitatis basin and the mare that fills the basin.
Terrific Taruntius
6.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Taruntius is an often overlooked crater. There are few photos of it by amateurs or spacecraft. This great image by Tom Leech shows what we have been missing. The 58 km wide crater...
Lunar Super-Heroes
5.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
The Olympics are over, but some Greek super heroes live forever. Two of the mightiest gods of ancient Greece were Atlas and Hercules. Atlas was so strong that he held the Earth...
ToolKit Disc
4.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
The granddaddy of software for lunar studies is Harry Jamieson's Lunar Observer's Toolkit (LOT), which was first written in 1985. Some observers have been using this program for years, but I haven't because I use a Macintosh and it is a Windows program.
Snake in the Mare
3.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
The high resolution Apollo Hasselblad Camera views of the mare are absolutely spectacular near the terminator. Here we see the southwestern end of the peculiar linear mountain range that parallels the sloping northern edge of the Aristarchus Plateau.