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Moon (redirect from Lunar mass)the Moon have synchronized the Moon's orbital period (lunar month) with its rotation period (lunar day) at 29.5 Earth days, causing the same side of the...267 KB (26,022 words) - 04:13, 23 November 2024
Moon landing (redirect from Lunar landing)A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made...116 KB (10,899 words) - 16:03, 24 October 2024
Apollo program (redirect from Apollo lunar landings)landed their Apollo Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command...151 KB (16,008 words) - 08:05, 19 November 2024- A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with...25 KB (2,778 words) - 09:59, 21 November 2024
A lunar eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. Such an alignment occurs...27 KB (2,928 words) - 00:51, 9 September 2024
Apollo 12 (redirect from Lunar Module Intrepid)Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean completed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module...64 KB (7,788 words) - 20:35, 21 November 2024
Chinese New Year (redirect from Chinese Lunar New Year)similar celebrations in other cultures, commonly referred to collectively as Lunar New Year, such as the Losar of Tibet, the Tết of Vietnam, the Korean New...160 KB (16,194 words) - 03:50, 13 November 2024- observed purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar. A purely lunar calendar is distinguished from a lunisolar calendar, whose lunar months are brought...9 KB (992 words) - 02:56, 17 November 2024
Chinese calendar (redirect from Chinese lunar calendar)is a lunisolar calendar dating from the Han dynasty that combines solar, lunar, and other cycles for various social and agricultural purposes. While the...91 KB (9,601 words) - 01:44, 18 November 2024
Apollo 13 (redirect from Lunar Module Aquarius)electrical and life-support system. The crew, supported by backup systems on the lunar module (LM), instead looped around the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory...117 KB (13,639 words) - 16:48, 10 November 2024
Islamic calendar (redirect from Islamic lunar calendar)English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine...76 KB (7,721 words) - 23:21, 17 November 2024
Apollo Lunar Module (LM /ˈlɛm/), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit...62 KB (6,130 words) - 03:12, 17 November 2024- Hindu calendar (redirect from Hindu lunar calendar)for timekeeping based on sidereal year for solar cycle and adjustment of lunar cycles in every three years, but differ in their relative emphasis to moon...81 KB (6,100 words) - 07:02, 14 November 2024
Moon landing conspiracy theories (redirect from Lunar hoax)high-definition photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the Apollo landing sites have captured the Lunar Module descent stages and the tracks...146 KB (16,803 words) - 20:03, 5 November 2024
Full moon (redirect from Lunar opposition)The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective. This occurs when Earth is located between the Sun and...38 KB (4,211 words) - 12:04, 24 October 2024
Apollo 17 (redirect from Lunar Module Challenger)the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot...118 KB (13,017 words) - 20:00, 5 October 2024
List of missions to the Moon (redirect from Future lunar missions)conducting exploration of the Moon since 1959. The first partially successful lunar mission was Luna 1 (January 1959), the first probe to leave Earth and fly...191 KB (5,487 words) - 13:32, 14 November 2024
List of Apollo astronauts (redirect from List of lunar astronauts)successful two-man landing missions, twelve men walked on the lunar surface, six of whom drove Lunar Roving Vehicles as part of the last three missions. Three...41 KB (3,960 words) - 00:49, 22 November 2024
Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon. The Moon's surface has many craters, all of which were formed by impacts. The International Astronomical...22 KB (2,089 words) - 06:39, 11 November 2024
Supermoon (redirect from Lunar perigee)its orbit—resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as viewed from Earth. The technical name is a perigee syzygy (of the...21 KB (2,168 words) - 08:45, 21 November 2024
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- astronomer knows that the surface of the moon is exposed during the long lunar day, lasting a fortnight of our terrestrial time, to the rays of a sun as
- peace for all mankind. Apollo 11 Lunar plaque; as qtd. in Jones, Eric M., ed. (1995). "One Small Step". Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal. NASA. That's one
- Chinese New Year (redirect from Lunar new year)Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, is the largest holiday in the Chinese community, celebrated in January or February
- measured as the time it takes Earth to fully rotate around its polar axis. A lunar month is measured as the time the moon takes to fully rotate around the