This planet, like its one moon, is not geologically fragile.
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The footage of the Apollo 11 crew's landing on the Moon is one of 20th Century's most important artefacts.
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All of that means he's able to throw what Moon calls one of the best deep balls in the game.
The discovery would appear to resolve a longstanding mystery in planetary science: why the walnut-shaped Iapetus has a two-tone complexion, with one side of the moon significantly darker than the other.
In this world where every object was thrown away at the slightest sign of breakage or aging, at the first dent or stain, and replaced with a new and perfect substitute, there was just one false note, one shadow: the moon.
It is thought to be just over 100m years old (Apollo 17 brought back material from the site, which allowed it to be dated), and it is reckoned by Dr Bottke to be the result of the moon encountering one of the first of Baptistina's progeny to arrive in the inner solar system.
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However, while mining helium-3 from the moon will be one challenge, extracting energy from it is another, as it relies on nuclear fusion, rather than fission used in today's nuclear reactors.
Obama's redirection of the agency caused consternation among former astronauts like Neil Armstrong and John Glenn, and even among the President's supporters: Most people think of nasa's job as one of landing on the moon and Mars and exploring other faraway destinations.
That way they can rationalize Amazon's going to the moon and back in one day.
It occurred between two Apollo missions, with one crew just returned from the Moon and another preparing for launch.
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On the moon, we had one-sixth of Earth's gravity, allowing Neil and me to move around easily in the Eagle to put on equipment for our walk.
Because he was not there to assert his authority, there was not one Soviet attempt to reach the Moon, but several rival schemes to reach the Moon.
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If a big enough one were to slam into the moon in the night sky you would think the sun was coming up early only it would be 5 to 7 times as bright.
With no means of communicating with the outside world, and no other human beings within thousands of miles, this was the Edwardian equivalent of an Apollo moon shot, but one that lasted years, not months.
In 1920, Leos Janacek turned to science fiction for his opera The Excursions of Mr. Broucek, setting one of its scenes on the moon, where the local residents turn out to be fussy, art aficionados.
It is part of the Swatch Group, it is the only watch to have been worn on the moon and I for one am not about to argue with 007 whose timing is never less than perfect.
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One night, under a brilliant African moon, he crawled all over the plane, snapping photos.
Half an hour south of San Francisco is Miramar Beach, one of the many beaches on Half Moon Bay.
"People like him because there's a touching story behind him, " football commentator Park Moon Sung at SBS, one of Korea's major broadcasters, said.
One theory for the difference between the Moon's far side and near side is an ancient collision with a second natural satellite of Earth.
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The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter contains millions of these rocky fragments, the biggest among them measuring one-quarter the size of the Moon.
Satellites beyond Earth use radio waves for tracking and communication, but the moon satellite is the only one to rely on lasers for tracking, NASA said.
The Waxing Gibbous Moon - the lunar phase between first quarter Moon and a full Moon - will be approximately one degree south of Jupiter appearing to be only a pen width apart.
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Last December, one of the last men on the Moon, Harrison Schmitt, told BBC News that he believed Nasa and other government run space agencies were "too inefficient" to be able to send astronauts back to the Moon.
His boss there, Bruce Rioch, thought so highly of the towering centre-back, that he said if he was going to the moon and could only take one man with him, then Tony Mowbray would be the man he would want by his side.
The gift, which also included a small Alaskan state flag that was flown to the moon with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on the first manned moon landing mission, was one of about 185 such displays that were presented to the states, the United States' territories and to foreign nations.
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In ground-based images, the patch of sky (just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon) is largely empty.
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