Moon

Moon

The Earth's only natural satellite. The moon has a cold, dry orb covered with many lunar craters and strewn with rocks and dust. The moon has no atmosphere. But recent lunar missions have found plenty frozen water on the moon.

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Apollo

Astronomy; Moon

The code name for the U.S. manned Lunar exploration program that successfully completed the first human landing on the Moon by Apollo 11 on July 20 1969. The program began tragically with the deaths ...

moon water

Astronomy; Moon

The moon had previously been thought to be a dry and dusty place until frozen water was discovered in one of its permanently shadowed craters in 2009. The latest studies found primitive water content ...

tides

Astronomy; Moon

The cyclical movement of bodies of water or land on the Earth or the Moon caused by the gravitational pull of the Earth, Moon, and Sun.

transit

Astronomy; Moon

The point when the path of the Moon, the Sun, a star, or a planet takes it across the meridian.

tropical month

Astronomy; Moon

The time required for the Moon return to a specific celestial longitude, or to move from the first point of Aries and back: a period of 27. 321582 days.