And as with the Moon, we may never go back to the places Jobs took us.
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That would mean that any ice which has collected in those craters (perhaps from comets that have collided with the moon) would never evaporate.
In China and parts of Asia it's believed to be the day with the brightest moon of the year.
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The game begins in 1957, with the preparations to launch the first satellite into orbit, and ends with the first Moon landing.
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.
The 71-year-old clarinettist, who returned to the stage in April after being diagnosed with throat cancer in 1999, said he was "over the moon" with the honour.
Without it, we might still fancy the Earth situated in the center of the cosmos, with the sun, the moon and all the stars orbiting around us.
He even told me that he was the only astronomer in the world who had dispensed with telescopes, because he could make out details on the Moon's surface with the naked eye.
If the ratio of magnesium and iron on the moon conforms with scientists' predictions it will provide evidence that the moon really is a chip off the old block.
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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And then, secondly, in the conversations with Ban Ki-moon, is the President discussing more broadly how to do a proactive strategy with the unrest that's sweeping the Middle East?
Dr Amy Mainzer, principal investigator on the Neowise (Near-Earth Wise observations) project at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in California, said that "estimating the ages and origins of the asteroids should help us to correlate events on Earth and impact craters on the Moon with what is going on in the Solar System".
It would take six months to reach the red planet, compared with three days to the moon.
From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg, in association with Hasbro, Transformers: Dark of the Moon explodes with high-octane action when a mysterious event from Earth's past erupts into the present day threatening to bring a war to Earth so big that the TRANSFORMERS alone will not be able to save us.
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In 2006, Stardust is scheduled to become the first spacecraft to return to Earth with material from beyond the moon.
If an astronaut wore an Omega watch, a consumer could identify with the adventure of walking on the moon by wearing the same watch.
But five years ago, NASA was tasked with returning to the moon by 2020, rerunning the moon race that we won 40 years ago.
Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott took a specially made Bulova stopwatch with him to the moon while inside the Command Module Endeavor and the Lunar Module Falcon.
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In a conference room, looking through a wall of glass into the Messenger mission-control center, Solomon described his fascination with the parched and moon-like planet, which is a sister of Earth.
Michael Bay must have zombie-raising powers, because 3D is back from the dead with Transformers: Dark of the Moon , which pulled in about 60% 3D ticket sales in its opening weekend.
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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.
There was always a sleepwalker edging along the parapet of a skyscraper with his arms reaching toward the moon, or a werewolf starting to howl in the middle of Times Square, or a pyromaniac setting fire to the dock warehouses.
With the experience and knowledge gained on the moon, we will then be ready to take the next steps of space exploration: human missions to Mars and to worlds beyond.
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Meg, 23, is a drummer with the aggression of a Keith Moon, pigtails swinging, reducing the art to its primary components.
Tradition dictates that Ramadan, like other holy months in the Islamic calendar, begins the day after the thin crescent of the new moon is first seen with the naked eye.
Afterwards Cameron loyalists were - predictably - over the moon with the prime minister's performance.
For three hours I sat across from Armstrong as he regaled us with stories of the first moon landing.
The workmen were ready with the net: they wrapped it around the moon, trapping it between the net and the ground.
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