Sentences with phrase «entire lunar surface»

This implies that the mean temperature of the entire lunar surface is 193 - 194 K, a long way below the 271 K given by the use of the Stefan - Boltzmann equation (assuming albedo 0.11 and emissivity 1).
The Diviner survey has provided the first chemical map of the entire lunar surface, he added.
They've found that one of the biggest challenges to lunar settlement — as vexing as new rocketry or radiation — is how to live with regolith that covers virtually the entire lunar surface from a depth of7 feet to perhaps 100 feet or more.
«What this is telling us,» she says, «is these large basins modified the entire lunar surface at some point.»
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