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A Penetrating View of Imbrium
27.04.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
We observe the Moon with our green-sensitive eyeballs, red-sensitive ccd cameras, multi-spectral spacecraft sensors and also with radar of various wavelengths. Each view provides somewhat different information about the top layers of the Moon. Each detector provides information to a depth about equal to a few times the wavelength used.
America Hits the Moon!
26.04.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
On Sept. 13, 1959 the Soviet Union crash landed the Luna 2 probe onto the Moon - the first thing from Earth to contact another planet. The US followed with a crash onto the lunar surface on April 26, 1962, 42 years ago today.
Ortho Atlas
25.04.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Gerard Kuiper generated more lunar atlases than any other person I know. In 1959, he began the onslaught with the publication of the Photographic Atlas of the Moon, a heavy red box containing large halftone enlargements of lunar photos.
The Star of Astronomy Night
24.04.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Today is Astronomy Day, and the star of the night sky is five days old, awaiting your visit with friends to be introduced to its charms. The Moon is often the first heavenly body people look at when they become attracted to the sky - and why not? The Moon is big and easy to find.
Magnetic Moon
23.04.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
The Moon lacks a dynamic magnetic field, but does possess remanent magnetization locked in when lunar rocks cooled and solidified billions of years ago. In 1998 the Lunar Prospector (LP) spacecraft collected 400,000 measurements of lunar magnetization - enough to make the first global map of surface magnetic field strength.
Earth Day
22.04.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Earth Day is one of the great ideas of the new thinking that sprang from the 1960s. Starting April 22, 1970 Earth Day has been celebrated as a time to honor the Earth and our responsibility toward it.
A Boisterous Astronaut
21.04.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Thirty-two years ago today the Apollo 16 lunar module Orion dropped down on to the Descartes highlands. Commander John Young was an astronaut's astronaut. He understood systems engineering, he was a great pilot and he loved space with a passion.
On the Moon
20.04.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
This panoramic image shows the Surveyor 3 landing site, later visited by the Apollo 12 astronauts. The bland appearance is largely the result of a high sun angle, but dust on the camera mirror also reduced image quality.
Elger's Journal - or Goodacre's?
19.04.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Thomas Gwyn Elger [LPOD Mar. 28] was the first director of the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association. He published a monthly lunar column in The Observer and published occasional reports of the Section. He kept a journal called The Moon - Observations, Notes and Sketches, November 1897-8- to... in a bound blank page book.
Langrenus
18.04.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Langrenus (132 km wide and a max depth of 4.9 km) is just another Copernicus-style impact crater, or so it looks. Wreathed in wall terraces, and possessing a central peak complex and partly flat floor, Langrenus is Copernicus-East. Originally thought to be Copernican [LPOD Feb. 23] in age (i.e. 1.1 b.y.