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Jan 29, 2024 · Both are caused by shifting faults; in the moon's case, they're caused by creases that form on the moon's surface as it shrinks. If you're asking yourself why in the world the moon would be...
Jul 18, 2023 · Researchers are taking the prospect of a renewed human presence on the moon so seriously that this past spring, the European Space Agency proposed a mundane, but crucial suggestion to help ...
- The Moon Has Virtually No Atmosphere
- No GPS on The Moon
- The Lunar South Pole Is A Strange, Shadowy Place
When spacecraft land on Earth, they use the atmosphere to slow down, as we saw when Space Shuttles and Apollo capsules returned. But the moon's atmosphere is extremely thin, comparable to the far outskirts of Earth's atmosphere, where the International Space Station orbits. This means that slowing down is dependent on firing out bounties of propell...
On Earth, aircraft rely on GPS, the U.S. government-run satellite navigation system, to provide precise landing coordinates as planes and other craft move through the sky. But there's no such satellite network encircling the moon. "GPS doesn't work at the moon," said NASA's Percy. So NASA must still generally navigate like they did during the Apoll...
Apollo astronauts landed on the bright, sunlit side of the moon. But for NASA's new moon endeavors, a mission called Artemis, astronauts will land inside a crater at the lunar south pole. Planetary scientists suspect ice and other valuable resources are found in this profoundly cold, dark region. There, the sun never passes overhead. It's always ne...
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Jul 17, 2019 · Why is learning about the Moon so important to us? Landing humans on the Moon and bringing them back safely was a formidable technological challenge. And the time within which that was accomplished was incredibly short. The first human spaceflight was in 1961.
Oct 21, 2012 · Answer. Chris - Well, let's zoom out for a bit and imagine you're off of the Earth and you're looking at the Earth and the moon from space. So you have the Earth as the bigger of the two bodies sitting, let's say, in the centre and the moon is in orbit around the Earth.
Feb 21, 2024 · More than 50 years after humans first began soft-landing spacecraft on the moon, it remains a treacherous feat with more than half of missions failing. Here’s why.
