Moon
Our solitary and prominent Moon orbits Earth at a mean distance of only 382,000 kilometers (236,840 miles). The nearest planet, Venus, is never closer than 40 million kilometers (25 million miles...
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MOON. To observers on earth, the moon appears to be the most changeable of celestial phenomena. In earlier times the appearance of the new crescent was often greeted with joy as a return of the m...
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The Moon's surface. U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Reflecting light from the Sun, the Moon is often th...
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The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth. It has a diameter of 2,158.9 mi (3,475.9 km), lies at a mean distance from the Earth of 238,760 mi (384,404 km), and completes one orbit aroun...
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Humans have been observing the Moon since ancient times in hopes of explaining the mysteries of its movements, topography, origin, and composition. Early records of lunar study date back to 2200 ...
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The Earth's moon has a great deal of mystery and indefinite discoveries left for us to explore. One of the most talked about topics of the Moon is if we are going to be living there in just a few sho...
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On Oct. 13, 2006, just days after
North Korea
tested a nuclear weapon,
Ban
Ki-moon, the South Korean minister
for foreign affairs, was named UN secretary-general-elect.
Ban
would succeed UN
...
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Japan's space agency launched its much-delayed lunar probe Friday, beginning what it calls the largest mission to the moon since the U.S. Apollo flights.The Selenological and Engineering Explorer _...
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Ever whacked your thumb with a hammer, or wrenched your back after lifting a heavy box, and blamed the full moon? It's a popular notion, but there's no cosmic connection, Austrian government resear...
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Japan's space agency has recommended scrapping its first moon mission after more than a decade of delays, a spokeswoman said Monday, in the latest blow to the country's beleaguered space program.Th...
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The renegade Roman Catholic archbishop who was excommunicated by the Vatican after he installed married priests as bishops acknowledged Saturday that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon was supporting his crus...
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A Chinese satellite successfully entered lunar orbit Monday, a month after rival Japan put its own probe into orbit around the moon, but Chinese officials denied there was any competition between t...
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Scientists have discovered what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid, probably methane or ethane, on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, including one about as big as Montana.The discovery by t...
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If you haven't seen the mysteriously large comet prominent in the sky in recent weeks, better look soon, astronomers say. The erupting body and its expanding cosmic dust cloud will soon be overshad...
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She storms out of the tilting shanty of a farmhouse in full fury. This self-described "ugly, overgrown lump of a woman" is a force of nature, an earth mother of surprising strength and heart at the...
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The Future of Earth's Moon
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