Tag: Moon

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Mygood friend Sanjay pinged me in the morning with the good news, an excerpt, and a link from the BBC stating “India’s Moon rover has taken first steps on the lunar surface a day after the country made history by becoming the first to land near the South Pole.” While I wa...

In recent years, we’ve all become accustomed to astrophysicists regularly discovering new exoplanetary systems, with the number of known exoplanets increasing by hundreds every year. However, thanks to the powerful ALMA telescope in Chile, astronomers recently discovered a circumplanetary disk...

the most volcanically active world is Jupiter’s innermost large moon: Io. When one of Jupiter’s moons passes behind our Solar System’s largest planet, it falls into the planet’s shadow, becoming dark. When sunlight begins striking the moon again, we don’t see it ...

This is not the first time astronomers have suggested an underground ocean on Mimas. In 2014, a look at data from NASA’s Cassini probe showed that the moon has a wobble in its rotation. While a slight wobble is normal (our own Moon wobbles slightly during its orbit), the 2014 paper f...

Its orbital distance ranges from 356,000 to 407,000 km. A perigee full Moon compared with an apogee full Moon, where the former is 14% larger and the latter is 12% smaller than the other. The longest lunar eclipses possible correspond to the smallest apogee full Moons of all. At apogee, the M...

When a full moon lifts off the horizon, it can seem much larger compared to later, when it’s high up and teeny tiny. Many swear it actually is larger on the horizon. Others say that some sort of magical atmospheric lighting effects make it appear bigger (Aristotle apparently tho...

We’re going back to Jupiter! JUICE, or the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, has launched this Friday and is now headed towards Jupiter. There, it’ll collect and survey the three icy and large moons for show — Ganymede, Callisto and Europa, each with its own subsurface ocean to explore. ...

Two spacecraft from the 20th century imaged it up close: Voyager 1 and Galileo. On July 3, 1999, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to Jupiter’s moon Io, coming within 130,000 kilometers (80,000 miles) of its surface. A series of images were ta...