Sentences with phrase «lunar surface at»

«What this is telling us,» she says, «is these large basins modified the entire lunar surface at some point.»

The moment the prophecy was fulfilled is confirmed by the hour of departure of the lunar module, which left the lunar surface at 17:54:1 (Universal Time) or 1:54:1 (EDT) and as you have seen above, verse [54:1] is the verse that deals with the prophecy.

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Additionally, at least two government agencies in addition to NASA are developing lunar landers with aspirations of reaching the lunar surface.

After these molecules arrive at the moon, it is thought they get energized by sunlight and then bounce across the lunar surface; and they get stuck, at least temporarily, in colder and more shadowy areas.

Alternatively, the water at Cabeus may have been created when hydrogen atoms carried by the solar wind slammed into oxygen - rich materials in the lunar surface.

After analysing the moon's wrinkled surface with data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Klimczak thinks that the moon shrank by at least 2 kilometres — previous estimates pegged the contraction at only about 200 metres.

«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.

Christopher MacLeod at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, UK, is intrigued by the idea of simulating how robots could move on the lunar surface.

Orbiting at 100 kilometers above the lunar surface, KAYUGA transmits laser pulses to the moon with its laser altimeter (LALT).

But superheated plasma created when large asteroids slam into the lunar surface can produce a magnetic field for at most only one or two days.

The amount of water is probably small — about an eyedropperful for every two liters» worth of lunar surface material — but finding any moisture at all is a major surprise.

«If nothing changed on the moon — if there were no lunar body tide or if its tide were completely static — then every time scientists measured the surface height at a particular location, they would get the same value,» said Mike Barker, a Sigma Space Corporation scientist based at Goddard and co-author of the new study, which is available online in Geophysical Research Letters.

At the point on the ocean's surface closest to the moon (point A in the illustration), the lunar gravitational attractive force is strongest and it pulls the ocean toward itself.

Laine is promoting an elevator from the lunar surface to a point in space between Earth and the moon, because the physics is kinder and at least five existing materials meet its requirements, including Zylon and Kevlar.

These minerals, which likely originated deep below the lunar surface, are different from anything found on the lunar surface before, so they raise the possibility of an as - yet - unknown geologic process at work.

Before - and - after images of the region taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will provide data that will allow researchers to estimate the strength and cohesiveness of surface rocks at the impact sites.

Colaprete said the apparent lack of a plume could say something about the angle at which LCROSS struck the surface or the stiffness of the material at the surface, which could have been soft lunar soil or hard bedrock.

Heat from the impact that made Occator probably allowed a mixture of ice, salts, and rock in Ceres's interior to become more fluid and rise up to the surface, scientists reported today at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

But some regions may become redder and darker than others because parts of the atmosphere collapse, exposing those spots to more surface - darkening radiation from space, researchers report March 22 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

At this distance, it takes sunlight reflected from the lunar surface approximately 1.3 seconds to reach Earth.

«By comparing the measured craters to the number and spatial distribution of large impact basins on Mercury, we found that they started to accumulate at about the same time, suggesting that the resetting of Mercury's surface was global and likely due to volcanism,» said lead author Dr. Simone Marchi, who has a joint appointment between two of NASA's Lunar Science Institutes, one at the SwRI in Boulder and another at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), circling the moon at an altitude of 31 miles, recently sent back the first global temperature maps of the surface (at right).

The Moon Wall is a museum exhibit at Adler Planetarium that utilizes data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter to enable the use to «fly» over the surface of the Moon.

China will attempt to land the Chang» e 3 rover on the moon at year's end, the first lunar surface mission since Russia's Luna 24 sample return lander in 1976.

While many in Congress and the space community call for stability and continuity at NASA — no big changes like those imposed by President Obama — an exception is made for the prospect of restoring lunar surface missions.

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.

And almost 1 in 5 people alive at the time shared in the excitement, watching as blurry television images showed Armstrong descending to the lunar surface.

This becomes more and more discordant, something like listening to Little Richard sing «Ready Teddy» while gazing at the lunar surface.

Unidentified Photographer Two views of Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard during lunar surface training at the Kennedy Space Center, Apollo 14, November 1970.

The «Water» pictures include large - format color images that often read like artful abstractions at first glance: the dried - up Colorado River Delta in Baja, Mexico, with its lunar - like silvery gray surfaces; a great swirl of water at China's Xiaolangdi Dam on the Yellow River that brings the British painter J.M.W. Turner to mind; and an aerial picture of dry - farming land in Aragon, Spain, whose jutting organic forms suggest the shapes of Picasso or Jean Dubuffet.

In «Color,» uneven circles of earthy reds, ochres, and gray - blues crest like a lunar landscape, while a scarred, lyrical surface reveals itself as paper pulp, but only when you examine it at arm's length and allow the vastness to envelope you.

The cost instead 5000 per kg to GEO and $ 8000 per kg to lunar surface, will instead $ 5000 plus rocket fuel cost at lunar orbit [450 per kg] plus the use of a reusable spacecraft.

And that limit is around the temperature of lunar surface in daylight with sun at zenith.

And the warmed lunar surface's IR has peak intensity at around 7,000 nm.

Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average

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.

One could say that the lunar surface of around 120 C during the lunar day is close to the Sun's temperature at Earth / Moon distance.

At night, the lunar surface gets very cold, as cold as minus 173 degrees C.

However, the Diviner mission has established that at the lunar equator, the warmest part of the surface, the mean temperature is just 206 K.

Those numbers are meaningless as the average temperature of the surface of the Moon is between 80 °C on the lit face and -200 °C on the dark face and averaged over a lunar day it's 98 K at the poles and 206 K at the equator.

b.) Analysis of lunar samples revealed mass fractionation in the Sun that enriches lightweight elements (h and He) and lightweight isotopes of each element at the solar surface: http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1975Data.htm

The temperature climbs much higher (than on Earth) so long as the lunar surface is basking in the sun, and drops much lower while the back radiation from outer space is only at 4 kelvins.

If you look up lunar characteristics, the peak surface temperature is listed as 123 C or 396 K, which matches the calculation for an albedo of 0.1 for solar radiation at the lunar equator.

One object surrounded by a blanket of the similar overall surface area of 2m ^ 2 and weighing roughly 100 kg is substantially different from three people in the Command Module (3mx4m) attached to the Service Module (7mx4m) and connected to the Lunar Module (5mx4m) for an approximate total surface area of 200m ^ 2 and weighing in at around 45,000 kg.