Sentences with phrase «mean lunar surface»
The NASA Lunar Diviner probe has made multiple empirical measurements of the Moons complete surface and shows the mean Lunar surface temperature to be 197K.
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Yutu — whose name means Jade Rabbit — was also videoed taking its first journey onto the lunar surface.
Heat differences meant impacts left larger, shallower basins on the lunar surface that faces Earth
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).
However, the Diviner mission has established that at the lunar equator, the warmest part of the surface, the mean temperature is just 206 K.