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ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-The Moon.jpgMare Imbrium, from Galileo72 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Checking out the Galileo spacecraft's cameras during its December 1992 fly-by of Earth's Moon, controllers took this dramatically illuminated picture through a violet filter. The view looks down on the Moon's North Polar Region with the Sun shining from the left at a low angle and the direction toward the Moon's North Pole toward the lower right.
Across the image upper left stretches the smooth volcanic plain of the Mare Imbrium. Pythagoras crater, 65 miles wide, is near the center of the image -- mostly in shadow, its central peak just catches the sunlight (...)".
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ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-Earth&Moon from Nozomi.jpgThe Earth-Moon System from Nozomi66 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Japan launched its first mission to orbit Mars, Nozomi (Hope), on July 3rd, 1998, from the Kagoshima Space Center on the island of Kyushu. Nozomi's goal is to explore the Martian atmosphere and magnetic field as well as Regions of the Planet's surface and Moons. Formerly known as Planet-B, the spacecraft will use highly elliptical orbits with successive Earth/Moon flybys to help slingshot itself along its ultimate trajectory toward Mars, arriving at the Red Planet in October 1999. This stunning picture of the crescent Earth-Moon system was taken by Nozomi's onboard camera on July 18 from a point in space about 100.000 miles from the Earth and 320.000 miles from the Moon. Vibrant and bright, the reflective clouds and oceans of Earth contrast strongly with the dark, somber tones of the Lunar Surface".
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ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-The Moon-1.jpgThe Moon from Galileo71 visiteCaption NASA originale:"The Moon's surface is covered with craters, scars of frequent impacts during the early history of the Solar System. Now, recent results from the Lunar Prospector spacecraft support the idea that the Moon itself formed from the debris of a giant impact of a Mars-sized planetary body with the Earth nearly 4,5 BY ago. The impact theory of lunar origin can explain why Moon rocks returned by the Apollo missions have the same isotopic ratios as Earth rocks while the Moon seems deficient in heavy elements like iron. It can also explain a critical finding of the Lunar Prospector experiments - that the Moon's core is proportionally very small. If the Moon formed simply as a Sister World, its origin paralleling Earth's formation from the primordial Solar Nebula, it should have similar iron content and relative core size. But material blasted from the surface of Earth by an impacting body would lack the iron and heavy elements which had settled to the Earth's core yet retain similar ratios of chemical isotopes. A fraction of this debris cloud would remain in Earth orbit ultimately forming the Moon".
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ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-The Moon.jpgThe North Pole of the Moon67 visiteCaption NASA originale:"This arresting image of the third quarter Moon in the excellent skies above the Pine Crest Farm Observatory, Dell Prairie, Wisconsin, was recorded with a 24" telescope and digital camera on October 19, 2000. Marvelously detailed, especially along the terminator or shadow line between lunar night and day, this cropped version of the full mosaicked image shows the cratered North Polar Region and the broad smooth Mare Imbrium. Notable at the northern edge of the Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) is the 95 Km wide dark crater Plato, while the dramatic straight "cut" to the right of Plato, (toward the terminator) is the Vallis Alpes (Alpine Valley). The long, graceful arc of the lunar Montes Apenninus in the lower portion of the image sweeps Southward along the boundary of the mare toward the left and ends near the bright ray crater Copernicus at the picture's edge. In 1971, Apollo 15 landed near the gap beyond the opposite (northern) end of the Montes Apenninus arc".
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The Moon~0.jpgWonderful, wonderful Moon!... (HR)73 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day", del 7 Settembre 2006:"No single exposure can easily capture faint stars along with the subtle colors of the Moon. But this dramatic composite view highlights both.
The mosaic digitally stitches together fifteen carefully exposed HR images of a bright, gibbous Moon and a representative background star field. The fascinating color differences along the Lunar Surface are real, though highly exaggerated, corresponding to regions with different chemical compositions.
And while these color differences are not visible to the eye even with a telescope, Moon watchers can still see a dramatic lunar presentation tonight: a partial eclipse of the Moon will be visible from Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia".
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B-Tsiolkovsky_3D~0.jpgThe Peak of Tsiolkovsky Crater (3D)96 visitenessun commento
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B-ZhiritskiyCrater.jpgZhiritskiy Crater (3D)88 visitenessun commento
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B-Pirquet_3D.jpgPirquet Crater (3D)81 visitenessun commento
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First Moon.jpgFirst Moon58 visitenessun commento
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First Moon-1.jpgFirst Moon56 visitenessun commento
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ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-Lunar South Pole.jpgNo "Lunar Ice" at the South Pole...62 visite"...a new radar survey of the Moons Southern Pole has cast doubt on the hope that there might be accessible deposits of water ice in permanently dark craters. This new survey, performed with the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, found elevated Hydrogen levels in regions of bright sunlight - not just inside the shadowed walls of craters. It seems that scattered rocks associated with impact craters have given previous instruments a false reading...".
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ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-FastWalker-konig080895.gifFast-walker in transit218 visiteDa una ripresa telescopica ottenuta da Terra, il transito di un Fast-Walker (o meglio: l'ombra di un Fast-Walker in transito che si proietta sulla grigia superficie della Luna).
Ora, come gi si disse in passato e come il Dr Fienga scrisse nell'articolo "L'Anno del Centauro" - pubblicato sul Sito UFO-ONLINE - perch un oggetto "possa/riesca a proiettare la propria ombra sulla superficie della Luna" ragionevole supporre che:
1) trattasi di un oggetto DECISAMENTE VICINO alla superficie della Luna (e comunque molto pi vicino alla Luna di quanto non lo sia alla Terra) e
2) trattasi di un oggetto avente NOTEVOLISSIME DIMENSIONI (cos notevoli da poter essere visto - e BENE - anche da oltre 300000 Km di distanza.
E allora? Che cosa stiamo guardando?...
Observer: Mr. Steve Massey
Location: Residence - Dee Why - New South Wales
Time and date of observation: 00.30 to 00.40 Hrs EST 08/08/95
Object's location: Object seen passing over the northern quadrant of the Mare Humorum a little south of the crater "Gassendi". This area is located in the lower south I west quadrant of the Moon.
Object visible for: 0.74 of a second as determined from video sequence at normal running speed.
Equipment used: 10" Meade Reflector Telescope fitted with clock drive unit for tracking. The eyepiece used at the time of observation was a 25 mm focal length of f4.5 rating together with a 2x barlow lens. The telescope mirror was 1l40 mm. In addition to this, a video camcorder set at 8x zoom and was hand-held at the eyepiece to record the moon's surface features. The total magnification ratio was as follows - 1140 mm divided by 25mm = 45.6x + 2x barlow = 91.2x + camcorder 8x zoom = 729.6x.
Moon details: At the time of observation the Moon was in the western quadrant at 39.40 degrees above the horizon. It was 8/10ths illuminated with the full Moon due 110895. See (visual) direction graphic for astronomical position data.
Observation: Steve is a keen amateur astronomer and has been interested in the subject since an early age. He has an excellent knowledge of astronomy and uses a 10" Meade Reflecting Telescope fitted with a drive unit for tracking. At between 30 to 40 minutes after midnight on the 8th of August he was videotaping an area of the Moon known as the Mare Humorum in the general vicinity of the crater Gassendi. He was hand holding a camcorder set at maximum zoom ratio of x8 up to the telescope eyepiece and while watching through the viewfinder, noticed an object enter the field of view from the lower right just above the crater "Konig" moving at extremely high speed to disappear out of the field of view in the upper left.
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