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In some lunar calendars, such as the Vikram Samvat, a lunar day, or tithi, is defined as 1/30 of a lunar month, or the time it takes for the longitudinal angle between the Moon and the Sun to increase by 12 degrees. By this definition, lunar days generally vary in duration.
The density of cratering indicates an age of 4 billion years for the dark terrain, similar to the highlands of the Moon, and a somewhat younger age for the grooved terrain (but how much younger is uncertain). [63] Ganymede may have experienced a period of heavy cratering 3.5 to 4 billion years ago similar to that of the Moon. [63]
The Moon moves about 12 degrees around its orbit per day, so, if these observers were stationary, they would see the phases of the Moon at times that differ by about one-sixth of a day, or 4 hours. But in reality, the observers are on the surface of the rotating Earth, so someone who sees the Moon on the eastern horizon at one moment sees it on ...
Mundo da Lua (World of the Moon) is a Brazilian children's fantasy television series that aired on TV Cultura from 6 October 1991 to 27 September 1992, totalling 52 episodes. It was created by Flávio de Souza and starred Luciano Amaral. It is currently shown on TV Rá-Tim-Bum. [1] [2]
civetweb Easy to use, powerful, C (C/C++) embeddable web server with optional Lua support. [4] Conky, the Linux system monitoring app, uses Lua for advanced graphics. Cocos2d uses Lua to build games with their Cocos Code IDE. Codea is a Lua editor native to the iOS operating-system. Core uses Lua for user scripts. [5] CRYENGINE uses Lua for ...
Gemini 12 (officially Gemini XII) [3] was a 1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini. It was the 10th and final crewed Gemini flight ( Gemini 1 and Gemini 2 were uncrewed missions), the 18th crewed American spaceflight, and the 26th spaceflight of all time, including X-15 flights over 100 kilometers (54 nmi).
The STS-134 crew installed the AMS-2 on flight day 4. AMS-2 was lifted out of Endeavour ' s payload bay using the Canadarm, operated by Drew Feustel and Roberto Vittori. It was handed off to Canadarm2, which was operated by Greg Chamitoff and Greg Johnson, and was installed in its final location on the S3 truss segment at 09:46 UTC. Immediately ...
16th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division moving towards the D-Day Beach taken by Capa The iconic photo Face in the Surf : American GI moving toward Omaha Beach taken by Capa First five images of Capa's The Magnificent Eleven. The Magnificent Eleven are a group of photos of D-Day (6 June 1944) taken by war photographer Robert Capa.