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Chandrayaan 2, India’s first mission to attempt a Moon landing
The complexity and cost of a robotic lunar landing mission is enormous; only three countries have been successful so far.
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Chandrayaan 2 landing site in the southern highlands
Seen here is the targeted landing region for India's first ever soft landing Moon mission, Chandrayaan 2. The spacecraft will launch on July 15, 2019. Chandrayaan-2's lander will touchdown in the highland (rocky) plain between the craters Manzinus C and Simpelius N. Apart from a number
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Gravity assist: The simple physics trick that’s allowed humanity to explore deep space
How did the NASA Voyager spacecraft escape the Solar system?
Facing lava on three sides – Promontorium Heraclides
Capes on the Moon!
Outstanding crater chains of the Orientale basin on the Moon
They indicate the intensity of the impact that formed Orientale.
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Is the solar system’s largest storm dying?
The Great Red Spot is 1.3-times as wide as Earth, and appears to be dwindling faster than expected.
The dynamic terrain of Aitken crater
Seen here is the large Aitken crater on the farside of the Moon, hosting a complex array of terrain features. Aitken crater stretches 135 kilometers across and is 6 kilometers deep. Like the previously covered Aristarchus, it has an arc-shaped (near) central mountain. The other prominent feature of Aitken is
The Moon has wrinkles! - Dorsum Zirkel
Here's a long-running wrinkled ridge on the Moon called Dorsum Zirkel, in the vast lava plains of Mare Imbrium. The Moon has many wrinkled features (Dorsa) across its surface. Wrinkles are tectonic features formed by compressive stresses on the lunar surface. The dark regions of the Moon — the
What does a fresh crater on the Moon look like?
Hell.
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India’s Astrosat and NASA’s Chandra co-discover a rapidly spinning black hole
How to determine how fast a black hole is spinning? Its X-ray outbursts will tell you.
A fault on the Moon - Rupes Recta
Seen here is a geological "fault" on the Moon, called Rupes Recta, as seen from orbit by NASA's Apollo 16. A fault like this is called a scarp when it separates two relatively level areas. Scarps are formed when two volumes of rock are displaced from
Ghost craters on the Moon!
Buried below the surface in the Moon's lava.