Lunar craters

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61Moons / Planemos / Lunar craters / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Geology of the Moon / Victoria quadrangle / Spaceflight / Planetary science / Moon

LRO Determines Lunar Cratering History The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter used millions of measurements of the lunar surface to establish the history of cratering on the surface. Problem 1 - The diameter of the moon is 3,

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Language: English - Date: 2010-09-27 09:16:56
62Circle / Geometry / Integral calculus / Shell integration

The volume of a lunar impact crater Lunar craters have been excavated by asteroid impacts for billions of years. This has caused major remodeling of the lunar surface as the material that once filled the crater is ejecte

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Language: English - Date: 2012-10-31 12:23:46
63Moons / Planemos / Lunar craters / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Geology of the Moon / Victoria quadrangle / Spaceflight / Planetary science / Moon

LRO Determines Lunar Cratering History The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter used millions of measurements of the lunar surface to establish the history of cratering on the surface. Problem 1 - The diameter of the moon is 3,

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Language: English - Date: 2010-09-27 10:16:56
64Astronomy / Lunar science / Impact crater / Lunar craters / Planetary science / Meteorite / Moon

The Apollo-11 Landing Area at High-Resolution The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently imaged the Apollo-11 landing area at high-resolution and obtained the image above (top left). An enlargement of the area is s

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2009-12-15 09:18:56
65Nuclear weapon design / Lunar science / Explosives / TNT equivalent / Physics / Relativistic kill vehicle / Energy / Moon / Trinitrotoluene / Units of energy / Planetary science / Measurement

82 Craters are a Blast! Have you ever wondered how much energy it takes to create a

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Language: English - Date: 2010-05-02 14:40:08
66Astronomy / Moon / Lunar Orbiter program / Lunar science / Planetary geology / Planetary science / Lunar craters / Tycho

Craters on the Moon - I 9 This is a NASA image taken by the Lunar Orbiter IV spacecraft as it captured close-up images of the lunar surface in May, 1967. The large crater at the top-center is Tycho. Other images from th

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Language: English - Date: 2012-10-16 09:47:22
67Moon / Moons / Planemos / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Lunar craters / Apollo / Geology of the Moon / Borealis quadrangle / Spaceflight / Spacecraft / Exploration of the Moon

Lunar Crater Frequency Distributions This image of the 800-meter x 480-meter region near the Apollo-11 landing pad (arrow) was taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). It reveals hundreds of craters covering the

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Language: English - Date: 2009-12-29 12:30:02
68Random selection / Statistics / Fair coin / Philosophical logic / Probability space / Principle of indifference / Probability theory / Probability and statistics / Coin flipping

Lunar Cratering - Probability and Odds The moon has lots of craters! If you look carefully at them, you will discover that many overlap each other. Suppose that over a period of 100,000 years, four asteroids struck the l

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Language: English - Date: 2010-09-30 11:05:26
69Lunar science / Moon / Moons / Planemos / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Apollo 15 / Apollo 11 / Geology of the Moon / Lunar craters / Spaceflight / Apollo program / Exploration of the Moon

LRO - The Relative Ages of Lunar Surfaces We have all sees pictures of craters on the moon. The images on the next two pages show close-up views of the cratered lunar surface near the Apollo 15 and Apollo 11 landing area

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2013-01-07 12:30:54
70Planetary geology / Shield volcanoes / Lunar craters / Mons Rümker / Aristarchus / Mare Humorum / Messier / Schiller / Wargentin / Planetary science / Moon / Geology

International Observe the Moon Night[removed]The above map depicts the Moon as it will appear at approximately 10:30 PM EDT and 7:30 PM PDT on International Observe the Moon Night, September 6, 2014. With the terminator (t

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Source URL: www.lpi.usra.edu

Language: English - Date: 2014-01-23 11:36:12
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