What the hell happened to the
Luna 23 probe? As part of the Soviet Union's
Luna program, it was designed to collect a small sample of
lunar regolith and return it to Earth. But despite landing, it failed to leave the moon. Two years later,
Luna 24 landed nearby and managed to attain and return a sample, but its geological properties conflicted wildly with what was expected. What the hell happened with Luna 24?
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posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Apr 25, 2012 -
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Apollo 14, with
Alan Shepard,
American's first man in space, as the Commander,
Stuart Roosa,
Command Module Pilot and
Edgar Mitchell,
lunar module pilot,
splashed down forty years ago today. It was
flight of the rookies (total previous time in space was 15 minutes, all by Shepard).
There were several odd things about the flight, but no need to worry,
the moon trees are doing
just fine.
posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Feb 10, 2011 -
11 comments
Goodnight moon;
In the dawn of the Space Age, NASA undertook to find and assemble the very best images of the Moon it could find. In a project led by the late Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago (later of the University of Arizona), the best telescopic plates from observatories around the world were assembled into one compilation, the Photographic Lunar Atlas (Kuiper et al., 1960, University of Chicago Press). This atlas consisted of loose-leaf, printed (lithographed) sheets of telescopic plates of the Moon, showing the surface at a variety of illumination conditions. Widely distributed, this atlas served as the basis for many early photographic studies of the Moon.
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posted by infinite intimation
on Jun 22, 2010 -
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Lunar gardening is the oldest
form of gardening known to man,
the practice centers on the moon's gravitational effect on the flow of moisture in soil and plants and, to a lesser degree, the effect of moonlight on seed germination. "I've got a large area in potatoes. We've got some planted at the right time of the moon and some crops at the wrong time of the moon. The difference is so obvious and there for everybody to see"
posted by stbalbach
on Jul 17, 2003 -
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Van Gogh's Moon Shines Again This Weekend If you go out this Sunday evening and look up at the Moon, you will see not only our closest celestial neighbor, but a piece of art history as well. The rising full moon will appear exactly the way it did 114 years ago, when Vincent Van Gogh captured the scene in his famous painting "Moonrise.". Also learn how the moon helped date the painting.
posted by NewBornHippy
on Jul 11, 2003 -
12 comments
Ever wonder about the
Islamic Calendar? finishing up the month of Rajab about Oct 16
"The number of months with Allah has been twelve months by Allah's ordinance since the day He created the heavens and the earth. Of these four are known as sacred" (Holy Quran, ch., v 36)Muharram, Rajab, Dhul Qadah and Dhul Hijja are considered to be sacred months. Fighting during these sacred months is considered to be a sin. I am so ignorant of other cultures.
posted by redhead
on Oct 12, 2001 -
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