Sentences with phrase «areas near the moon»

Observations made by NASA's Lunar Prospector orbiter in the late 1990s identified hydrogen - rich areas near the moon's poles but could not determine whether that hydrogen was bound up in water or was present in some other form.

Not exact matches

Different resorts have them in different locations, but when we stayed at the BoardWalk Inn, we watched our movie on the grassy area nearest the BoardWalk, with the moon twinkling over the water behind us.

Since the 1960's scientists thought that only in permanently shadowed areas in craters near the lunar poles was it cold enough to accumulate this volatile material, but recent observations by a number of spacecraft, including LRO, suggest that hydrogen on the moon is more widespread.

In craters near the south pole of the moon, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter found some bright areas and some very cold areas.

Apollo Missions 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 landed near the equator of the moon in part because that area was easy to land and relatively obstacle free.

The impact that formed a large basin known as Orientale in the western area of the moon's near side, which the group investigated in detail, obliterated all prior craters within the basin itself, an area of nearly 700,000 square kilometers.

Saturn's icy 246 - mile - wide moon Mimas (near lower left) appears tiny by comparison to the planet's rings, but scientists think the all of the small, icy particles spread over a vast area that comprise the rings are no more than a few times as massive as Mimas.

NASA is looking to explore the area of space near the moon for clues on how to travel to Mars and even farther into the solar system, the space agency announced Tuesday.

Near to The Blue Hole, one of Belize's largest protected areas, Half Moon Caye Natural Monument, encompasses 10,000 acres of the atoll and 15 square miles of surrounding waters.

From Path to the Meat Plateau, grab a Hammer Bro, destroy the cheese blocks on the stairs, climb up over to Peronza Plaza, use the rooftops to reach the opening area and destroy the cheese block near the Odyssey to get your Moon.

It seems to me that if the events are happening consistently at low tides, which are when the moon is on the horizons, the most likely cause is direct gravitational pull by the moon on the nearest tectonic plate creating a slight spread at the rift, just as a sideways pulling on skin near a recently sutured cut can make the area bleed.