Sentences with phrase «do lunar surface»
Based on the calculations we've done, we can actually do lunar surface missions, with no propellant production on the surface of the moon.
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Moon Express has a ways to go before it can reach the lunar surface, which it hopes to do next year.
Schultz thought that when small comets slam into the Moon's surface — as they occasionally do — the coma may scour away loose soil from the surface, not unlike the gas from the lunar modules.
«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.
Exquisite telescopic photographs of the lunar surface had existed for decades before the Apollo missions to the Moon, but they did not resolve the controversy of the origin of lunar craters were they formed by meteorite impact or by volcanic eruption?
«When I weigh the cost benefit of going back to the lunar surface in a limited budget environment, and going to Mars, I would rather take what little money I have upfront and advance the technologies we're going to need» to do Mars missions, he said.
«Having global access with modern imaging spectrometers from lunar orbit is the next best thing to having a geologist with a rock hammer doing the field work across the surface.»
For another, how do you explain a Lunar Eclipse where the shadow of the Spherical Earth is clearly reflected upon the surface of the moon?
So temperature of lunar surface during day is the sun temperature if the sun diameter increased to Earth / Moon distance but was also emitting the same total energy as the current sun does at it's much smaller diameter.