‘Preliminary traverse map of the landingsite’ – (original – more) Strangemaps, You’ll Never Moonwalk Alone: “On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. He didn’t moonwalk alone – ‘Buzz’ Aldrin joined him on the surface – and he didn’t walk far. After travelling hundreds of thousands of kilometers, [...]
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Preliminary traverse map of the landing site
March 24th, 2008
Tags: apollo 11 · buzz aldrin · maps · moon · neil armstrong · space
The Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars
March 5th, 2008
HiRise, The Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars (PSP_005558_9040): “This is an image of Earth and the Moon, acquired at 5:20 a.m. MST on 3 October 2007, at a range of 142 million kilometers, which gives the HiRISE image a scale of 142 km/pixel and an Earth diameter of about 90 pixels and a [...]
If We Had No Moon
October 30th, 2007
Earth and Moon from Galileo probe, 1990 januari 02. (NASA) Bernard Foing, If We Had No Moon: “The Earth has a large moon, making it unique in the inner solar system. Mercury and Venus have no moons, and Mars has only two small asteroid-sized objects orbiting it. In this essay, the father of the SMART-1 [...]
Tags: astrobiology · astronomy · bernard foing · earth · evolution · moon