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15 hours ago · The highly accurate map, created at an unprecedented scale, includes a total of 12,341 craters, 81 basins, 17 rock types, and other basic geological information about the Moon's surface.
15 hours ago · The Moon's mass is some 27 million times smaller than the Sun, but it is 400 times closer to the Earth. Tidal force or tide-raising force decreases rapidly with distance, so the moon has more than twice as great an effect on tides as the Sun. [65] A bulge is formed in the ocean at the place where the Earth is closest to the Moon because it is ...
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15 hours ago · It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Real-time distance and velocity data is provided by NASA and JPL . [4] At a distance of 162.7 AU (24.3 billion km ; 15.1 billion mi ) from Earth as of April 2024 [update] , [4] it is the most distant human-made object from Earth.
- September 5, 1977, 12:56:00 UTC
- Titan IIIE
- 815 kg (1,797 lb)
15 hours ago · The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
- 4,280 m (14,040 ft)
- 165,250,000 km² (63,800,000 sq mi)
- 10,911 m (35,797 ft)
- 710,000,000 km³ (170,000,000 cu mi)
15 hours ago · In astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler between 1609 and 1619, describe the orbits of planets around the Sun.The laws modified the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus, replacing its circular orbits and epicycles with elliptical trajectories, and explaining how planetary velocities vary.
8 hours ago · The moon has fascinated humans for thousands of years, both for its science and its myths. ... the material inside a planet or moon can help scientists create a detailed map of the object's ...
15 hours ago · Symbols for the Sun and Moon The use of astronomical symbols for the Sun and Moon dates to antiquity. The forms of the symbols that appear in the original papyrus texts of Greek horoscopes are a circle with one ray for the Sun and a crescent for the Moon. The modern Sun symbol, a circle with a dot (☉), first appeared in Europe in the Renaissance. The symbol for the Sun in late Classical (4th ...
