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A full moon sinking behind San Gorgonio Mountain, California, on a midsummer morning. Moonrise and moonset are times when the upper limb of the Moon appears above the horizon and disappears below it, respectively. The exact times depend on the lunar phase and declination, as well as the observer's location.
Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which orbits Earth at a radius of 384,400 km (238,900 mi) and is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth. This photograph of Earth straddling the lunar horizon was taken in 2015 by NASA 's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter while located 134 km (83 mi) above the crater Compton , visible in the ...
Moonrise, 2005 novel in the Warriors: The New Prophecy series by Erin Hunter; Moonrise (Wolfson book), a 2003 nonfiction book by Penny Wolfson about her son, who has muscular dystrophy; Moonrise, a 1996 Grand Tour novel by Ben Bova; Moonrise, a Phantom Stallion novel by Terri Farley; Moonrise, a 2004 Snowfall Trilogy novel by Mitchell Smith
The usual English proper name for Earth's natural satellite is simply Moon, with a capital M. [19] [20] The noun moon is derived from Old English mōna, which (like all its Germanic cognates) stems from Proto-Germanic *mēnōn, [21] which in turn comes from Proto-Indo-European *mēnsis 'month' [22] (from earlier *mēnōt, genitive *mēneses) which may be related to the verb 'measure' (of time).
Europa's seafloor could be heated by the moon's constant flexing, driving hydrothermal activity similar to undersea volcanoes in Earth's oceans. [ 102 ] Experiments and ice modeling published in 2016, indicate that tidal flexing dissipation can generate one order of magnitude more heat in Europa's ice than scientists had previously assumed.
MoonRise is a robotic mission concept to the south pole of the Moon.It was proposed in 2017 for NASA's New Frontiers program mission 4, but it was not selected. If funded and launched by another NASA opportunity, it would focus on the giant South Pole–Aitken basin (SPA basin) on the far side of the Moon between the Moon's South Pole and Aitken Crater, 16° south of the Moon's equator.
E Bija e Hënës dhe e Diellit ("the Daughter of the Moon and the Sun") is a character in Albanian mythology and folklore, the dauther of Hëna ("the Moon") and Dielli ("the Sun"). [1] She is the as pika e qiellit ("drop of the sky" or "lightning") which falls everywhere from heaven on the mountains and the valleys and strikes pride and evil.
Indonesia is the world's largest producer of palm oil [176] Indonesia has a mixed economy in which the private sector and government play vital roles. [177] As the only G20 member state in Southeast Asia, [178] the country has the largest economy in the region and is classified as a newly industrialised country.