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NASA's Hubble Looks for Poss
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NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources |
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NASA's Hubble Looks for Poss
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NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources |
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NASA's Hubble Looks for Poss
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NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources |
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NASA's Hubble Looks for Poss
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NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources |
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Moon Mare and Montes
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Moon Mare and Montes |
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This arresting [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap991108.html ] image of the third quarter moon in the excellent skies above the Pine Crest Farm Observatory, Dell Prairie, Wisconsin, was recorded [ http://www.scancam.com/ ] with a 24 inch telescope and digital camera on October 19. Marvelously detailed [ http://www.seds.org/billa/psc/lunam.html ], especially along the terminator or shadow line between lunar night [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960919.html ] and day, this cropped version of the full mosaicked image shows the cratered north polar region (top) and the broad smooth Mare Imbrium [ http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/lunar/ mare/mlm.html ]. Notable at the northern edge [ http://www.arval.org.ve/MoonMapen.htm ] of the Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) is the 95 kilometer wide dark crater Plato, while the dramatic straight "cut" to the right of Plato, (toward the terminator) is the Vallis Alpes (Alpine Valley). The long, graceful arc of the lunar [ http://www.tiac.net/users/richarde/ ] Montes Apenninus (Apennine Mountains) in the lower portion of the image sweeps southward along the boundary of the mare toward the left and ends near the bright ray crater [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001216.html ] Copernicus [ http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/expmoon/orbiter/ orbiter-craters.html#COPER ] at the picture's edge. In 1971, Apollo 15 [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15j.html ] landed near the gap beyond the opposite (northern) end of the Montes Apenninus arc. |
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Apollo 15: Driving on the Mo
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Apollo 15: Driving on the Moon |
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Apollo 15 [ http://ees5-www.lanl.gov/APOLLO/a15.summary.html ] astronaut James Irwin [ http://ees5-www.lanl.gov/APOLLO/a15.crew.html#irwinbio ] works on the first Lunar Roving Vehicle [ http://www.nasm.edu/APOLLO/AS15/LRV.html ], before he and fellow astronaut David Scott [ http://ees5-www.lanl.gov/APOLLO/a15.crew.html#scottbio ] take it out for a drive. Sloping up behind the lunar module [ http://www.nasm.edu/APOLLO/LMordered.html ]"Falcon" on the left are lunar mountains Hadley Delta [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960222.html ] and Apennine Front, while about 5 kilometers behind Irwin is St. George Crater. The explorations conducted during the Apollo lunar missions discovered much about our Moon [ http://www.nasm.edu/APOLLO/LunarTop10.html ], including that the Moon is made of ancient rock, that the Moon's composition is similar to Earth's, that life is not evident there, that the Moon underwent a great hot melting in its distant past, that the Moon has suffered from numerous impacts as shown by its craters, and that the Moon's surface is covered by a layer of rock fragments and dust. |
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An Apollo 15 Panorama
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An Apollo 15 Panorama |
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The Apollo 15 mission [ http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/AS15/a15.htm ] to Earth's Moon [ http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html ] was dedicated to better understanding the surface of the moon by exploring mountains, valleys, maria, and highlands [ http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/moon/moon_surface.html ]. Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin [ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo15/A15_Overview_crew.html ] spent nearly three days on the Moon while Alfred Worden [ http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/worden.htm ] orbited above in the Command Module [ http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/apollo/ ]. The mission [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15j.html ], which blasted off from Earth on 1971 July 26, was the first to deploy a Lunar Roving Vehicle [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990701.html ]. Pictured above [ http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarAtlas/panoramas/ ] in this digitally stitched mosaic panorama [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15.summary.html ], David Scott examines a boulder in front of the summit of Mt. Hadley Delta [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980705.html ]. The shadow of James Irwin is visible to the right, while scrolling to the right will reveal a well-lit and diverse lunar [ http://www.myspacemuseum.com/stats2.htm ] terrain. The Apollo 15 mission [ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo15/Apollo15.html ] returned about 76 kilograms of moon rocks for detailed study. Want to pan across the surface of Mars, too? Check out the color panoramic view [ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rover-images/jan-12-2004/ captions/image-1.html ] from the Spirit landing site. |
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Astronaut Kicks Lunar Field
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Astronaut Kicks Lunar Field Goal |
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Score three points for NASA. With time running out late in Apollo 15 [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html ]'s mission to the Moon [ http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/luna.html ] in 1971, Astronaut David Scott [ http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/expmoon/Apollo15/A15_Overview_crew.html ] prepared to "split the uprights" and bring about yet another dramatic end-of-the-mission win for NASA. Scott used a special "lunar football [ http://www.nfl.com/ ]" designed for the rugged games held on the Moon [ http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/lunar/lunar.htm ]. R1D1, a predecessor to R2D2 [ http://www.starwars.com/ ], cheers from the sideline. Happy April Fools Day [ http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/grad/april_fools/citizen_article.html ] from the folks at APOD [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960616.html ]. In reality, Astronaut Scott [ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-15/apollo-15.html ] adjusts one of Apollo 15's lunar experiments [ http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/expmoon/Apollo15/A15_Science.html ]. The foreground device [ http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/expmoon/Apollo15/A15_Experiments_SWS.html ] actually measured high-energy particles [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970217.html ] that escape from the Sun [ http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/eng/sun.htm ]. |
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Apollo 15's Home on the Moon
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Apollo 15's Home on the Moon |
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Could you ever call this place home? The lunar module [ http://www.nasm.edu/APOLLO/LMordered.html ] shown above, named "Falcon," served as home for Apollo 15 [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html ] astronauts David Scott and James Irwin [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15.crew.html#irwinbio ] during their stay on the Moon in July and August 1971. Meanwhile, astronaut Alfred Worden [ http://nauts.com/astro/worden/worden.html ] circled in the command module overhead. Harsh sunlight on the grey lunar surface lends the image an eerie quality, while the Lunar Apennine Mountains [ http://www.u-net.com/ph/mas/members/lunar/alpine.htm ] frame the background. Mount Hadley Delta is visible on the right. Visible in the foreground are tracks from the first Lunar Roving Vehicle [ http://www.nasm.edu/APOLLO/AS15/LRV.html ], an electric car which enabled the astronauts to explore extended areas on the lunar surface. Apollo 15 [ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-15/apollo-15.html ] confirmed that most lunar surface features were created by impacts [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960112.html ]. Rocks returned by the Apollo 15 [ http://www.nasm.edu/APOLLO/AS15/Apollo15_fact.html ] crew included green glasses whose formation mechanism is still unclear. |
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