7/21/2023 0 Comments Nasa moon atlas farokhThey'll remain very nearly as wide for the next few years before they start closing again. Sirius A and B are at their farthest apart in their 50-year orbit, separated by 11.3 arcseconds (they're exactly farthest apart next year if you're picky). The seeing often steadies in twilight, so this may be a good time to try for Sirius B, the Dog Star's notoriously difficult white-dwarf companion. ■ Sirius blazes high in the south on the meridian in late twilight this week. Lower right of Procyon shines brighter Sirius. Pollux is the one closest to it.ĭown below this group is Procyon. ■ Pollux and Castor accompany the Moon across the sky tonight, as shown above. (The "8 p.m." is standard time on Sunday the 13th that means 9 p.m. The waxing gibbous Moon passes under the heads of Gemini. When you face south after dark, Pollux and fainter Castor shine to the Moon's left by about a fist at arm's length, as shown below.Īt roughly right angles to that direction, the Moon shines almost exactly midway between Capella and Procyon (during evening in North America): about 2½ fists from each. Their mission will also no doubt produce a lot of new content for the Atlas.■ The waxing gibbous Moon this evening shines high in Gemini. When Artemis astronauts land there, they’ll be making use of the Atlas. It contains topographic maps, permanent shadow maps, slope maps, and other images and illustrations of different features of the Moon’s south pole. The Lunar South Pole Atlas is an interesting collection of data products. An image from the briefing for the proposed Constellation mission to to Malapert massif and Shackleton crater. That mission was part of the Constellation program, a cancelled crewed mission to the Moon proposed in the mid-2000s. There were proposed missions to Malapert massif, and one of them was proposed by David Kring, who is also the Principal Investigator for the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Image Credit: By NASA – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.(Original text: Apollo 8 Hasselblad camera image, unedited.Immediate source: Apollo Flight Journal, Apollo 8, Photography Index70-mm magazine E, AS08-13-2319), Public Domain, Astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon took this photograph of mountains rimming the Aitken Basin. While orbiting the Moon, they took this picture of the mountains rimming the south pole Aitken basin. It’s also the first crewed mission to leave Low-Earth Orbit. Apollo 8 was the first mission to orbit the Moon, though it didn’t land. The astronauts on Apollo 8 also supplied us with images of the south pole mountains. Leibniz Beta isn’t labelled, but it’s adjacent to Shoemaker crater. An elevation map of the lunar south pole from the LSPA. The Lunar South Pole Atlas is a collection of maps, images, illustrations, and data products designed to support NASA’s mission. NASA is aiming for an extended human presence on the Moon, centered on the south pole region where there are water ice resources. The elevation change between Leibnitz Beta and the adjacent Shoemaker Crater is about 10 km (6.2 mi). It’s next to Shoemaker crater, and the elevation change from the crater to the peak is 10 km (6.2 mi), higher than our own Mt. It has the highest-elevation summit of anything in the region. The second new image in the LSPA is of Leibniz Beta. The elevation change between Malapert Massif and the adjacent Haworth Crater exceeds 8 km (5 mi). Malapert Massif is adjacent to the Haworth crater, and the change in elevation between the two is greater than 8 km (5 mi). The two images are of Malapert Massif and Leibniz Beta. Scientists with the Lunar South Pole Atlas have created two new images of those mountains that show their elevation compared to Earth’s tallest mountain, Mt. Elevation data of the Moon showing the South Pole-Aitken Basin.
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