Sentences with phrase «far side of the moon»

Most are found on the unseen far side of the Moon, but one famous swirl called Reiner Gamma can be seen by telescope on the southwestern corner of the Moon's near side.

A rare view of the far side of the moon, taken by the China National Space Administration's lunar probe.

The MX - 1 is about the size of a coffee table, and NASA has left far more litter on the moon, most recently crashing its Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer into the far side of the moon in 2014.

Yes we have seen the far side of the moon thanks to satellites that orbit the moon.

They're also consistent with the Flying Spaghetti Monster controlling everything with His Noodly Appendage, or an invisible teapot on the far side of the moon, or the dragon that lives in my garage.

Beneath the water and sediment, the impact scar looks strikingly similar to Schrödinger crater on the far side of the moon.

Far side of the moon: this is a composite image of the lunar farside taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June 2009, note the absence of dark areas.

Faced with the prospect of encroaching technology on Earth, the late astronomer Jean Heidmann proposed in 1998 designating an area on the far side of the moon for an observatory that would be safe from space debris, light and radio pollution.

Soviet probe Luna 3 returned our first view of the far side of the moon, revealing odd, mountainous terrain.

By accessing raw data from Web searches and employing the help of Alexa — a company that measures Web traffic and publishes a list of the million most popular sites in the world — Ogas and Gaddam shine a light on hidden desire, a quirky realm of lust, fetish, and kink that, like the far side of the moon, has barely been glimpsed.

Its lunar exploration program is also increasingly science - driven, with a sample return mission scheduled for next year and the first ever landing on the far side of the moon planned for 2018.

He has proposed installing more seismometers on the far side of the moon to investigate further, but he will have a long wait.

They will then at last put our knowledge of this ocean planet on a par with that of Mars and of the far side of the moon.»

More than 350,000 locations were selected, covering areas on the near and far sides of the moon.

The dormant volcanoes on the far side of the moon offer an alternative way to sculpt the lunar surface

The far side of the moon was not seen until 1959 when the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft returned the first images.

This image shows the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the Earth - one million miles away.

Almost 8 centuries later, a relatively young crater — dubbed Giordano Bruno, after the heretic who was burned at the stake in Rome for arguing that planets orbit other stars — was discovered on the far side of the moon by the Soviet spacecraft Lunik III.

And on tap in 2018 is the launch of a lander headed for the far side of the moon, which would be a space first for any country.

Google and its competitors now offer maps of the depths of the oceans and the far side of the Moon.

Furthermore, executing a rover mission on the far side of the moon, he suggests, «will put China in a class of its own regarding space exploration.»

And then, after a perfect engine firing, Borman, Lovell and Anders were looking down at a sight no human eyes had ever seen: the far side of the moon, a bleached and desolate landscape pockmarked by craters of all sizes.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) disregarded his suggestion, even though we discovered them on the far side of the moon.

According to Glotch, the discovery of nonbasaltic volcanoes on the far side of the moon «shows that the moon is more compositionally diverse than we realized before this new age of lunar exploration.»

The far side of the moon — sometimes referred to inaccurately as the «dark side» — was hidden from view until 1959, when Soviet Union's Luna 3 spacecraft took the first photos of the region.

Shielded from Earth - bound eyes, the far side of the moon is home to a rare set of dormant volcanoes that changed the face of the lunar surface, a new study finds.

Set in the near future, the film also recreates the sense of deep isolation in those movies as Sam (Rockwell) runs a mining operation alone on the far side of the moon.

Those three mountains are actually the central peaks of the crater Bhabha, a 64 kilometer (40 mile) wide impact scar on the far side of the Moon.

China had planned to launch a rover into space by the end of this year, destined for the far side of the moon, with the hope of bringing rock and soil samples back to Earth.

«It's an old problem of trying to understand why there's this elevation dichotomy on the far side of the moon,» says Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., whose 2001 study with Asphaug identified a Mars - size impactor as the likely moon - yielding culprit.

One attractive feature of the new hypothesis is that it tidily explains why the near and far sides of the moon are not only topographically but compositionally different.

I saw the first Soviet image of the far side of the moon in a grainy newspaper reproduction in 1959, and watched a Ranger probe hit the moon in 1964, from a black - and - white 10 - inch television, picture by picture.

Mosaic of photos taken of the far side of the moon by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, orbiting at an altitude of just 30 miles (50 km).

Nasa captures stunning images of the far side of the moon.

Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three - year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium - 3.

There's been a series of terrorist acts in the anarchic criminal city of Purgatory on the far side of the Moon.

Their surfaces, particularly those Castellani painted white, have been compared to lunar landscapes — the first photos of the far side of the moon, showing its mass of craters, were sent back by Ranger 7 in July 1964, around the same time as he was creating works like Senza titolo (Superficie bianca).

Untitled (Three Stacks) 2004 acrylic on paper (Private Collection, OK) Between Green and Orange 1999 synthetic sponge and acrylic paint (Private Collection, NY) Far Side of the Moon 2002 synthetic sponge and acrylic paint 84 by 27 by 21 in.