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The Moon : NASA Images from Space.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alesse, Beth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lunar geology.
- Moon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Buffalo, NY : Amherst Media, Incorporated, 2019.
- Summary:
- The Moon: NASA Images from Space, includes images from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), and other international space explorations. Early images show the very first Apollo missions to the Moon using film in a Hasselblad camera. NASA illustrations explain the Moon's tidal forces on the Earth's oceans, seas, and land mass, the Moon's phases as see from Earth, the lunar geography, and Moon's composition. This book shows detailed maps of the Moon's surface: its incredible craters, ancient lava flows, plains, seas, and mountains. Included is speculation about the Moon's origin and its historical place our solar system. Humanities future plans for lunar exploration and habitation are discussed. Can humans live there, and how? This book is a comprehensively illustrated collection of lunar visuals of over 150 images
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Moon Basics
- Some Lunar Facts
- “By the Light of the Silvery Moon”
- Variations in the Sky
- Periodic Movement Around the Earth
- Apparent Movements
- Synchronous Rotation
- Lunar Orbital Periods
- Tidal Forces
- Other Moons
- Scale of Other Moons in the Solar System
- Collision with a Planet Called Theia
- More Moon Facts
- Appearance of Moons
- Through Atmosphere
- Earth’s Rotation
- Configuration of Celestial Bodies
- Spherical or Not
- Why the Moon Looks as Big as the Sun
- Neptune’s Crescent and Its Crescent Moon
- The Phases of the Moon
- The Moon’s Umbra
- Solar Eclipse 2017
- Safe Viewing
- A Solar Eclipse Moving Across the South Pacific
- Super Blood Lunar Eclipse Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-68203-369-4
- OCLC:
- 1180974448
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