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Aristarchus Crater - NASA Science
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Educators | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
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| | [AI summary] This article answers common questions about the Moon, covering its first human visitation, rock samples, formation theories, surface composition, craters, and volcanoes.
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German instrument to study Moon's eternal shadows with private mission
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| | On 22 February 2024, the US 'New Space' company Intuitive Machines became the first private company to land on the Moon with its IM-1 Odysseus mission. The landing site is located around 800 kilometres north of the lunar South Pole, east of the Malapert A crater. According to Intuitive Machines, the landing took place just 1500 metres from the intended landing site, meaning that Odysseus is located in the south of the South Pole-Aitken impact basin which measures over 2000 kilometres in diameter. The exact landing coordinates are 80.13 degrees South and 1.44 degrees East. The lander is on a surface at an incline of 12 degrees and topographical height of 2579 metres above the reference 'selenoid' - a modelled 'lunar surface' with identical gravitational pull.
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Absolute Time | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
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| | LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC) visible to ultraviolet portrait of Copernicus crater, image 458 km wide [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
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Space Shuttle Enterprise - Facts and Information | Space
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| The space shuttle Enterprise was originally to be known as Constitution. But a group of Star Trek fans were able to change that.