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Earth-Moon L 2: Queqiao-2: 2024 Lunar orbit: Quito Astronomical Observatory: 1873 La Alameda Park, Quito, Ecuador Radcliffe Observatory: 1772 Oxford, England. Moved to Durban, South Africa in 1939 Rainwater Observatory: French Camp, Mississippi, US Ralph A. Worley Observatory: 1964 Shreveport, Louisiana, US Rankin Science Observatory: 1963
Surveyor 3 on the Moon. The first image returned by Luna 3 showed the far side of the Moon. This is a list of robotic space probes that have flown by, impacted, orbited or landed on the Moon for the purpose of lunar exploration, as well as probes launched toward the Moon that failed to reach their target.
The 28 Lunar Mansions, or more precisely lodgings (Chinese: 二十 八 宿; pinyin: èrshí bā xiù) are the Chinese and East Asian form of the lunar stations. They can be considered as the equivalent to the Western zodiac, although the 28 stations reflect the movement of the Moon through a sidereal month rather than the Sun in a tropical year; (cf. Solar term).
The full moon is about 226,000 miles from Earth and appears brighter and bigger than the standard full moon, according to NASA. How and when to see the partial lunar eclipse in Dallas-Fort Worth
After over 50 years since the last American moon landing, a Texas-based company hopes to land the first commercial U.S. vehicle on the lunar surface. Named "Odysseus," the probe built by Houston ...
McDonald Observatory is an astronomical observatory located near unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States.The facility is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, with additional facilities on Mount Fowlkes, approximately 1.3 kilometers (0.81 mi) to the northeast. [1]
The Apollo 11 mission to the surface of the Moon returned a few dozen pounds/kilos of lunar material (mainly rock and dust), and the US put about 0.05 grams in small display cases and gave one apiece to the 50 U.S. states, to the nations of the world, and to political entities like the U.S. territories under administration. [1]
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is a scientific research institute dedicated to study of the solar system, its formation, evolution, and current state.The Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association [1] (USRA) and is supported by the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [2] (NASA).