Sentences with phrase «lunar far side»

GRAIL, which will map the moon's gravitational field to expose variations in its near - surface density, may be able to detect the residual effects of a long - lost moonlet pancaked across the lunar far side.

But there was nothing disappointing about what the astronauts saw as the spacecraft coasted around from the lunar far side on its fourth orbit: Earth, rising beyond the battered horizon, so tiny that the men could hide it behind an outstretched thumb.

Since then, several NASA missions have imaged the lunar far side in great detail.

Not exact matches

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

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 alunar farside taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June 2009, note the absence of dark aLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June 2009, note the absence of dark areas.

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.

Mexico's Chicxulub crater, named for a tiny town nearby, looks strikingly similar to Schrödinger crater on the moon's far side, shown here in a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter gravity map.

By far the most rigorously researched of the Tintin stories, it features nuclear fission, the effects of gravitation in space and why meteorites make lunar craters, as well as side references in Professor Calculus's log book to the «constant of solar radiation» and the «limits of the solar spectrum in the ultraviolet».

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.»

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.

The seismographs left on the moon's surface by the Apollo astronauts and the gravity measurements of the 1998 Lunar Prospector probe have provided enough data to explain why there are many more craters on the moon's far side than on the near side.

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).