Sentences with word «farside»

But no «face» exists on farside of the moon and now, Penn State astrophysicists think they know why.

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.

The teleoperated rover could also collect ancient farside rocks for delivery back to labs on Earth.

Published in Science in 2010, the earlier study found that the shape of one area of unusual topography on the moon, the lunar farside highlands, was consistent with the effects of tidal heating during the formation of the crust.

As the waves reverberate through the interior, they reflect off the surface of the sun's farside before returning to the front, where they create a slight ripple that SOHO's instruments can detect.

Based on the data and simulations of lunar impacts, the hotter nearside of the moon would have formed craters with up to twice the diameter compared with similar impacts on the cooler farside.

Those rays flicker incredibly quickly, within a fraction of a second — indicating that the near and farsides of the source are located at virtually the same place.

Dayton Jones and Thomas Kuiper, radio astronomers at JPL, have sketched a plan for deploying a rover to build a VLF radio telescope - essentially a huge network of wires acting as radio - wave receivers - in a crater on the lunar farside, where the moon's bulk blots out Earth's radio noise.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has interesting things hidden behind its farside too.

As a result, volcanoes never really got going on the farside, and the surface there has few dark blotches but lots of huge craters that were never swallowed by lava (above, right side).

As no astronauts have ever landed on the farside, we know little about its composition and history.

An astronaut sitting on the farside of Europa would never get a glimpse of Jupiter, sitting just 420,000 miles away.

Sometimes our view of the farside is blocked because the object spins so slowly.

Astronomers had long assumed that the farside was just like the near side.

«I remember the first time I saw a globe of the moon as a boy, being struck by how different the farside looks,» said Jason Wright, assistant professor of astrophysics.

The farside crust had more of these minerals and is thicker.

When meteoroids struck the farside of the moon, in most cases the crust was too thick and no magmatic basalt welled up, creating the dark side of the moon with valleys, craters and highlands, but almost no maria.

He was trying to account for something that has baffled lunar researchers since the early 1960s, when Soviet probes radioed back the first pictures of the moon's farside, which faces perpetually away from Earth.

He has run extensive computer simulations suggesting that the farside's topography could have resulted from a second, smaller moon that once orbited the Earth.

Unlike the near side, with its broad, smooth maria, the farside is covered almost entirely with rugged, scarred terrain and massive mountains, making it look «all beat up.»

That smaller satellite eventually collided with the larger one, crushing and cracking and piling up to form the mountains on the lunar farside.

If the rocks on the farside of the moon are older than those on the side that faces Earth, that would support his «second impact» hypothesis because the smaller moon would have cooled sooner than our moon, and so its rocks would be older than those of the moon itself.

Astronomers were stunned by the first images of the moon's farside, captured by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 in 1959.

Radiation from the farside pulsars was slowed down more than the radiation from the nearside ones because of interstellar gas.

If a giant magnetic storm is brewing on the farside, it will hit Earth with a flood of radiation as it finally rotates into view.

The sun rotates so slowly that it takes about a month to complete one turn, meaning that activity on its farside is hidden for up to two weeks at a time.

Large craters cover more of the moon's surface on its nearside than its farside, according to new maps from NASA's GRAIL spacecrafts.

Maps from the GRAIL spacecrafts reveal more large craters (big circles) and thinner crust (blue) on the moon's nearside (left) than on the farside (right), where the crust is thicker (red).

For example, the rover could deploy a radio telescope antenna, which would return great data to astronomers thanks to the «quiet zone» found on the moon's farside.

The tests at Ames simulate a mission in which astronauts parked at Earth - moon Lagrange point 2 — a gravitationally stable spot located about 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) above the moon's surface — operate a rover on the lunar farside.

Only a few percent of the farside has been affected by mare volcanism.