Weather of a slightly more familiar kind is thought to exist on Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn and the only moon in the solar system to have a thick atmosphere.
"Remember this moment, " announced guide Andy Richards, as we sat in the darkness, lit only by the full moon above and the glow sticks adorning our bodies.
People in a much larger region of the world can anticipate seeing a partial solar eclipse, in which the moon blocks only a fraction of the sun's disk.
For him, Sunday was like a misshapen moon that showed only its dark side.
Because, apparently, the gravitational pull of the moon does not only tug the waters of the sea and make the tides, it tugs up the sap.
During his 32nd solar eclipse observation, the Harvard-trained astronomer is to study the elusive coronal ring, the outer atmosphere of the sun, which can only be seen when the moon blots out the solar disk.
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.
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 next five years will also see China paving the way towards putting a human being on the Moon, making it only the second country to have done so.
While 98 nations, including all the major spacefaring ones, have ratified the Outerspace Treaty, only 13 countries have approved the Moon Agreement -- Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Uruguay and Mexico, to name four.
It should be noted also that the agencies, their industrial partners and a number of "space tourism" advocates have all previously thought about repeating the Apollo 8 Moon mission, if only to do one simple loop around the back.
But what's novel about the CEAC design is that it incorporates a bio-regenerative life-support system -- the kind of technology that could one day not only feed an outpost on the moon or Mars, but also provide it with oxygen and recycle its water.
And after the Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, the United States went about winning the Space Race by investing in science and technology, leading not only to small steps on the moon but also to tremendous economic benefits here on Earth.
That means only Mercury and Venus (and our moon) can cause eclipses from a vantage point on the Earth.
It was only when the ash from the disintegrating moon rained down on their faces and breasts that they began to disperse.
The pits are home to species including the moon carrot, found in only three places in the UK, and are a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest.
And as I followed her, in this way, past the flower gardens, I realized that her movements were similar to mine, that she, too, was trying to protect something fragile, something that might fall and shatter into pieces, and that needed thus to be led toward a place where it could settle gently, something that she could not touch but could only guide with her gestures: the moon.
It measures 5, 500 miles and is the only man-made object observable from the moon.
Practising on the moon makes sense because it is only three days travel from Earth.
The imagination of scientists has enabled us to travel through outer space and walk on the moon, feats that were once only possible in the realm of myth.
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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Although the moon's topography has already been comprehensively charted, these other kinds of map exist only for a narrow belt around the equator, amounting to just a quarter of the moon's surface.
Unfortunately, his mnemonic would only work in the northern hemisphere, where the moon is observed in the southern sky with the right side of the moon sunward during the waxing phase and the left side sunward during the waning phase.
We all shouted, and the happiness at having found them again was already fraught with the pain of having lost them now forever, as the moon rising in the dark sky sent out only the reflections of the sun on its lakes and fields.
Ultimately, the only way to stop the tide is to blow up the moon.
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Mr Cooper describes how his family were initially "not particularly keen" on the prospect of Mr Moon matching him with a woman he had met only once.
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In other company news, 36 years after astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin strode upon the Earth's only natural satellite, Schmidt's firm has launched Google Moon: A mapping service that lets homo sapiens explore the lunar surface from their PCs.
Unable to be a scientist on the moon, he chaired the panel that selected them (though only one actually got there).
The Obama Administration has canceled plans it inherited to send astronauts back to the Moon, the Space Shuttle is about to retire, and the only near-term human space flight initiative on the books is a handout to rich California businessmen to update old technology.
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