After that, it would be another month until the lunar cycle was in its darkest phase.
It's all still sitting there on the lunar surface waiting for the trash collector.
It is one of the youngest and best preserved of such features on the lunar surface.
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Among the discoveries: The lunar crust is much thinner and more battered than scientists had imagined.
The lunar module was named Eagle and an eagle insignia was on our arm patch so I felt safe.
They tend to stick very closely to the boundary between the lunar maria and the lunar highlands.
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Eugene Cernan, who is with us today, the last man to set foot on the lunar surface.
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Markets in Hong Kong, Taipei and Shanghai, among others, remained closed for the Lunar New Year holidays.
Most of the Lunar men were from non-conformist backgrounds and so not part of an Oxbridge-educated elite.
The baking sun, coupled with the lunar-like lava beginning to dominate the terrain, starts to addle my mind.
Or did more workers than expected return to its production lines after the Lunar New Year break?
Last year, the Lunar year was celebrated in January, while this year it is being observed in February.
It also abandoned the lunar calendar that had been used from ancient times.
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NASA, for example, recently announced plans to return by 2020, eventually building a permanent base on the lunar surface.
She added that the Lunar New Year also affected the import numbers as companies restock ahead of the celebrations.
Most Asian markets were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday, while Japan was shut for National Foundation Day.
Department stores and supermarkets reported that sales over the lunar new year holiday were 10-20% higher than in 2008.
The only major hardware element that must be designed and constructed from the ground up is the lunar lander.
The center of the screen shows video from the landing and graphics at the bottom show the lunar model's angle.
Nasa has released information about the impacts made when two probes were deliberately crashed into the lunar surface last year.
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The impact sites show that the spacecraft kicked up fields of dark debris as they slammed into the lunar soil.
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On Tuesday, the space agency released before-and-after pictures of the lunar north pole where Ebb and Flow came to rest.
Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable.
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Fireworks are traditionally set off in China to celebrate the Lunar New Year, which is just over a week away.
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With pardonable exaggeration, Ms Uglow in her introduction credits the Lunar men with nothing less than inventing the modern world.
Another analysis, also published in the journal Science, looks at the amount of the isotope beryllium-10 in the lunar soil.
The lunar crater named after Tycho Brahe, a 16th century Danish astronomer, near the moon's south pole, is 85km across.
After the loss of internal power the spacecraft could only be tracked using the tiny radio transmitter in the lunar capsule.
The Lunar New Year is celebrated in many countries, most notably in China, and holiday times usually mean less physical demand.
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