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Tag: The Moon

How To Make A Moon: New Research Is Raising Questions On Our Moon’s Birth

There are a lot of moons in our solar system—175 major planet satellites, and three times that if you count every natural satellite of every known object (like asteroids)—but among them our own capital-M Moon is in many ways unique. At a full quarter the size of Earth, only Pluto has a moon so near…

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Here’s a Martian panorama made from images captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover on June 20, 2022 (mission sol 3509) from the base of Aeolis Mons in Gale Crater.
A view of Earth 🌎 made from image data acquired with the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument on NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft on August 2, 2005 from a distance of about 67,000 km.
The Apollo 12 LM "Intrepid" and mission commander Pete Conrad are seen silhouetted against the bright glare of the Sun in this picture, an edited (by me) scan (by Kipp Teague) of a color 70mm film photo taken by LM pilot Alan Bean on November 19, 1969 (NASA image # AS12-47-6950)
A view of Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth, made from image data acquired by #NASA and @johnshopkinsapl’s New Horizons spacecraft on January 1, 2019.
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