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planets . One result of this axis orientation is that , averaged over the Uranian year , the near-polar regions of Uranus receive a greater energy input from the Sun than its equatorial regions .Nevertheless, Uranus is hotter at its equator than at its poles. The underlying mechanism that causes this is unknown. The ca...
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target even in urban conditions with binoculars . On larger amateur telescopes with an objective diameter of between 15 and 23 cm , Uranus appears as a pale cyan disk with distinct limb darkening .With a large telescope of 25 cm or wider, cloud patterns, as well as some of the larger satellites, such as Titania and Obe...
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comprises its bulk , with around 13.4 Earth masses , and the upper atmosphere is relatively insubstantial , weighing about 0.5 Earth masses and extending for the last 20 % of Uranus 's radius .Uranus's core density is around 9 g/cm3, with a pressure in the centre of 8 million bars (800 GPa) and a temperature of about 5...
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material are mixed in the ice mantle , the total mass of ices in the interior will be lower , and , correspondingly , the total mass of rocks and hydrogen will be higher .Presently available data does not allow a scientific determination of which model is correct. The fluid interior structure of Uranus means that it ha...
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Earth of about 0.075 W/m2 . The lowest temperature recorded in Uranus 's tropopause is 49 K ( −224.2 °C ; −371.5 °F ) , making Uranus the coldest planet in the Solar System .One of the hypotheses for this discrepancy suggests the Earth-sized impactor theorised to be behind Uranus's axial tilt left the planet with a dep...
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320 K ( 47 °C ; 116 °F ) . The tenuous thermosphere extends over two planetary radii from the nominal surface , which is defined to lie at a pressure of 1 bar .The Uranian atmosphere can be divided into three layers: the troposphere, between altitudes of −300 and 50 km (−186 and 31 mi) and pressures from 100 to 0.1 bar...
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lowers the saturation level and causes excess methane to freeze out . The abundances of less volatile compounds such as ammonia , water , and hydrogen sulfide in the deep atmosphere are poorly known .They are probably also higher than solar values. Along with methane, trace amounts of various hydrocarbons are found in ...
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responsible for the vast majority of Uranus 's thermal far infrared emissions , thus determining its effective temperature of 59.1 ± 0.3 K ( −214.1 ± 0.3 °C ; −353.3 ± 0.5 °F ) .The troposphere is thought to have a highly complex cloud structure; water clouds are hypothesised to lie in the pressure range of 50 to 100 b...
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The mixing ratio of carbon monoxide is similar at these altitudes . Heavier hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide have mixing ratios three orders of magnitude lower . The abundance ratio of water is around 7×10−9 .Ethane and acetylene tend to condense in the colder lower part of the stratosphere and tropopause (below 10 mBar...
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Saturn or Neptune , which may arise from the low concentration of hydrocarbons in the stratosphere . The ionosphere is mainly sustained by solar UV radiation and its density depends on the solar activity .Auroral activity is insignificant as compared to Jupiter and Saturn. Climate At ultraviolet and visible wavelengths...
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century , when the northern polar region came into view , the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) and Keck telescope initially observed neither a collar nor a polar cap in the northern hemisphere .So Uranus appeared to be asymmetric: bright near the south pole and uniformly dark in the region north of the southern collar. I...
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imaged . The speculation is that Uranus is becoming more Neptune-like during its equinoctial season . The tracking of numerous cloud features allowed determination of zonal winds blowing in the upper troposphere of Uranus .At the equator winds are retrograde, which means that they blow in the reverse direction to the p...
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the thick cloud layers above the troposphere . Uranian lightning has a power of around 108 W , emits 1×10^7 J - 2×10^7 J of energy , and lasts an average of 120 ms .There is a possibility that the power of Uranian lightning varies greatly with the seasons caused by changes in convection rates in the clouds Uranian ligh...
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at the solstices , has been noted in microwave measurements of the deep troposphere begun in the 1960s . Stratospheric temperature measurements beginning in the 1970s also showed maximum values near the 1986 solstice .The majority of this variability is thought to occur owing to changes in viewing geometry. There are s...
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the Sun 's rays or facing deep space . The brightening of the sunlit hemisphere is thought to result from the local thickening of the methane clouds and haze layers located in the troposphere .The bright collar at −45° latitude is also connected with methane clouds. Other changes in the southern polar region can be exp...
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Studies of Voyager 2 data in 2017 suggest that this asymmetry causes Uranus 's magnetosphere to connect with the solar wind once a Uranian day , opening the planet to the Sun 's particles .In comparison, the magnetic field of Earth is roughly as strong at either pole, and its "magnetic equator" is roughly parallel with...
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those of other planets : it has a bow shock at about 23 Uranian radii ahead of it , a magnetopause at 18 Uranian radii , a fully developed magnetotail , and radiation belts .Overall, the structure of Uranus's magnetosphere is different from Jupiter's and more similar to Saturn's. Uranus's magnetotail trails behind it i...
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a flyby of the planet in 1986 . Moons Uranus has 29 known natural satellites . The names of these satellites are chosen from characters in the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope .The five main satellites are Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. The Uranian satellite system is the least massive amo...
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horseshoe orbiter occupying the Sun–Uranus L3 Lagrangian point—a gravitationally unstable region at 180° in its orbit , 83982 Crantor . Crantor moves inside Uranus 's co-orbital region on a complex , temporary horseshoe orbit .2010 EU65 is also a promising Uranus horseshoe librator candidate. Rings The Uranian rings ar...
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analysed , they found that the star had disappeared briefly from view five times both before and after it disappeared behind Uranus . They concluded that there must be a ring system around Uranus .Later, they detected four additional rings. The rings were directly imaged when Voyager 2 passed Uranus in 1986. Voyager 2 ...
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in 1977 , Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Uranus on 24 January 1986 , coming within 81,500 km ( 50,600 mi ) of the cloudtops , before continuing its journey to Neptune .The spacecraft studied the structure and chemical composition of Uranus's atmosphere, including its unique weather, caused by its extreme axial ...
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flying by Uranus in March 2045 before heading to interstellar space . China also has plans for a potential Tianwen-5 that may orbit either Uranus or Neptune that have yet to come to fruition .In culture As well as being a popular subject in fiction, Uranus has inspired artistic works including Lydia Sigourney's 1827 po...
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Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet orbiting the Sun. It is the fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 times the mass of Earth. Compared to Uranus, its neighbouring ice giant, Neptune is slightly smaller, but more massive...
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and of large ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics allowed for detailed observations . Voyager 2 , which flew by Neptune on 25 August 1989 , remains the only spacecraft to ever visit the planet .Like the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn), Neptune's atmosphere is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, along wit...
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approximately 5,400 K ( 5,100 °C ; 9,300 °F ) . Neptune has a faint and fragmented ring system ( labelled `` arcs '' ) , discovered in 1984 and confirmed by Voyager 2 .History Discovery Some of the earliest known telescopic observations ever, Galileo's drawings on 28 December 1612 and 27 January 1613 (New Style) contai...
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of an undiscovered planet beyond Uranus . Independently from Adams , Urbain Le Verrier developed his own calculations in 1845–1846 that pointed to an undiscovered planet , but aroused no enthusiasm among his compatriots .In June 1846, upon seeing Le Verrier's first published estimate of a suspected undiscovered planet'...
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, there was a nationalistic rivalry between the French and the British over who deserved credit for the discovery . Eventually , an international consensus emerged that Le Verrier and Adams deserved joint credit .Since 1966, Dennis Rawlins has questioned the credibility of Adams's claim to co-discovery, and the issue w...
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nomenclature of the other planets , all of which were named for deities in Greek and Roman mythology . Most languages today use some variant of the name `` Neptune '' for the planet .In Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean, the planet's name was translated as "sea king star" (海王星). In Mongolian, Neptune is called ...
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used , though the usual adjectival form of Poseidon is Poseidonian ( ) . Status From its discovery in 1846 until the discovery of Pluto in 1930 , Neptune was the farthest known planet .When Pluto was discovered, it was considered a planet, and Neptune thus became the second-farthest known planet, except for a 20-year p...
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similar mass are often referred to as `` Neptunes '' , just as scientists refer to various extrasolar bodies as `` Jupiters '' . Internal structure Neptune 's internal structure resembles that of Uranus .Its atmosphere forms about 5 to 10% of its mass and extends perhaps 10 to 20% of the way towards the core. Pressure ...
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is 7 Mbar ( 700 GPa ) , about twice as high as that at the centre of Earth , and the temperature may be 5,400 K ( 5,100 °C ; 9,300 °F ) .Atmosphere At high altitudes, Neptune's atmosphere is 80% hydrogen and 19% helium. A trace amount of methane is present. Prominent absorption bands of methane exist at wavelengths abo...
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0 °C ; 32 °F ) . Underneath , clouds of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide may be found . High-altitude clouds on Neptune have been observed casting shadows on the opaque cloud deck below .There are high-altitude cloud bands that wrap around the planet at constant latitudes. These circumferential bands have widths of 50–150 ...
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been deposited from external sources such as meteorites and dust . Colour Neptune 's atmosphere is faintly blue in the optical spectrum , only slightly more saturated than the blue of Uranus 's atmosphere .Early renderings of the two planets greatly exaggerated Neptune's colour contrast "to better reveal the clouds, ba...
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that may exceed the dipole moment in strength . By contrast , Earth , Jupiter and Saturn have only relatively small quadrupole moments , and their fields are less tilted from the polar axis .The large quadrupole moment of Neptune may be the result of an offset from the planet's centre and geometrical constraints of the...
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is considered as a clear indicator of auroral activity on both gas giants and ice giants . The nature of Neptune 's aurorae is greatly influenced by the peculiar nature of its magnetic field .Unlike the Earth, Jupiter or Saturn, Neptune's magnetic poles are not aligned with the planet's rotational poles which is why Ne...
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1989 flyby , but no comparable phenomena on Uranus during its 1986 flyby . The abundance of methane , ethane and acetylene at Neptune 's equator is 10–100 times greater than at the poles .This is interpreted as evidence for upwelling at the equator and subsidence near the poles, as photochemistry cannot account for the...
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a new storm similar to the Great Dark Spot was found in Neptune 's northern hemisphere . The Scooter is another storm , a white cloud group farther south than the Great Dark Spot .This nickname first arose during the months leading up to the Voyager 2 encounter in 1989, when they were observed moving at speeds faster t...
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, or Neptunian electrostatic discharges emitting energies over 7×108 J . A plasma wave system ( PWS ) detected 16 electromagnetic wave events with a frequency range of 50–12 kHz at magnetic latitudes 7–33˚ .These plasma wave detections were possibly triggered by lightning over 20 minutes in the ammonia clouds of the ma...
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from the Sun than Uranus and receives only ~40 % of Uranus 's amount of sunlight ; however , its internal energy is still enough for the fastest planetary winds in the Solar System .Depending on the thermal properties of its interior, the heat left over from Neptune's formation may be sufficient to explain its current ...
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Mars ( 25° ) . As a result , Neptune experiences seasonal changes similar to those on Earth . The long orbital period of Neptune means that the seasons last for forty Earth years .Its sidereal rotation period (day) is roughly 16.11 hours. Because its axial tilt is comparable to Earth's, the variation in the length of i...
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of the gaseous protoplanetary disc . This hypothesis of migration after formation is favoured due to its ability to better explain the occupancy of the populations of small objects observed in the trans-Neptunian region .The current most widely accepted explanation of the details of this hypothesis is known as the Nice...
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. Objects in this resonance complete 2 orbits for every 3 of Neptune , and are known as plutinos because the largest of the known Kuiper belt objects , Pluto , is among them .Although Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit regularly, the 2:3 resonance makes it so that they can never collide. The 3:4, 3:5, 4:7 and 2:5 resonances...
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the sea , Neptune 's moons have been named after lesser sea gods . Planetary rings Neptune has a planetary ring system , though one much less substantial than that of Saturn and Uranus .The rings may consist of ice particles coated with silicates or carbon-based material, which most likely gives them a reddish hue. The...
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rings were much more unstable than previously thought . Images taken from the W. M. Keck Observatory in 2002 and 2003 show considerable decay in the rings when compared to images by Voyager 2 .In particular, it seems that the Liberté arc might disappear in as little as one century. Observation Neptune brightened about ...
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shown to be heating up , with increased atmospheric activity and brightness as a consequence . Combined with technological advancements , ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics are recording increasingly more detailed images of it .Both Hubble and the adaptive-optics telescopes on Earth have made many new discove...
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to make a close flyby of the moon Triton , regardless of the consequences to the trajectory , similarly to what was done for Voyager 1 's encounter with Saturn and its moon Titan .The images relayed back to Earth from Voyager 2 became the basis of a 1989 PBS all-night program, Neptune All Night. During the encounter, s...
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second probe , IHP-2 , would fly by Neptune in January 2038 , passing only 1,000 km above the cloud tops , and potentially carry an atmospheric impactor to be released during its approach .Afterward, it will continue its mission throughout the Kuiper belt toward the heliosphere tail, which is so far unexplored. After V...
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at Neptune by 2049 . However , for logistical reasons the Uranus Orbiter and Probe mission was selected as the ice giant orbiter mission recommendation , with top priority ahead of the Enceladus Orbilander .Two notable proposals for a Triton-focused Neptune orbiter mission that would be costed right between the Trident...
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The Moon is the only natural satellite orbiting Earth. It orbits around Earth at an average distance of 384,399 kilometres (238,854 mi), a distance roughly 30 times the width of Earth, and completes an orbit (lunar month) in relation to Earth and the Sun (synodically) every 29.5 days. The Moon and Earth gravitationall...
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, which mainly consists of the fine material ejected from the lunar crust by impact events . The lunar crust is marked by impact craters , with some younger ones featuring bright ray-like streaks .The Moon was volcanically active until 1.2 billion years ago, surfacing lava mostly on the thinner near side of the Moon, f...
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objects to fly to an extraterrestrial body were sent to the Moon , starting in 1959 with the flyby of the Soviet Union 's Luna 1 probe and the intentional impact of Luna 2 .In 1966, the first soft landing (by Luna 9) and orbital insertion (by Luna 10) followed. Humans arrived for the first time at the Moon, or any extr...
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may also refer to the personification of the Moon as a woman . The Ancient Greek word selḗnē referred to the Moon as a celestial body , and also to the moon goddess Selene .The rare English adjective selenian is used to describe the Moon as a world, as opposed to a celestial object. Its cognate selenic, originally a r...
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the Earth and the material accreted and formed the Moon just beyond the Earth 's Roche limit of ~2.56 R🜨 . Giant impacts are thought to have been common in the early Solar System .Computer simulations of giant impacts have produced results that are consistent with the mass of the lunar core and the angular momentum of...
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simulations ( up to 108 particles ) , found that giant impacts can immediately place a satellite with similar mass and iron content to the Moon into orbit far outside Earth 's Roche limit .Even satellites that initially pass within the Roche limit can reliably and predictably survive, by being partially stripped and th...
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a factor . Causes of the distribution of the lunar highlands on the far side are also not well understood . Topological measurements show the near side crust is thinner than the far side .One possible scenario then is that large impacts on the near side may have made it easier for lava to flow onto the surface. Lunar g...
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by size and mass the fifth largest natural satellite of the Solar System , categorizable as one of its planetary-mass moons , making it a satellite planet under the geophysical definitions of the term .It is smaller than Mercury but considerably larger than the largest dwarf planet of the Solar System, Pluto. The Moon ...
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about 500 kilometres ( 310 mi ) . This structure is thought to have developed through the fractional crystallization of a global magma ocean shortly after the Moon 's formation 4.5 billion years ago .Crystallization of this magma ocean would have created a mafic mantle from the precipitation and sinking of the minerals...
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of Earth 's . The Moon 's gravitational field is not uniform . The details of the gravitational field have been measured through tracking the Doppler shift of radio signals emitted by orbiting spacecraft .The main lunar gravity features are mascons, large positive gravitational anomalies associated with some of the gia...
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. These clouds are generated during large impacts in an ambient magnetic field . This is supported by the location of the largest crustal magnetizations situated near the antipodes of the giant impact basins .Additionally the Moon moves ~27% of the time, or 5–6 days per lunar month in Earth's magnetotail, replacing sol...
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, if they are ionized , by being swept away by the solar wind 's magnetic field . A permanent Moon dust cloud exists around the Moon , generated by small particles from comets .5 tons of comet particles are estimated to strike the Moon's surface every 24 hours, resulting in the ejection of dust particles. The dust stay...
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2.6 times more than the level on the International Space Station , 5–10 times more than the level during a trans-Atlantic flight , and 200 times more than the level on Earth 's surface .For further comparison, radiation levels average about 1.84 millisieverts per day on a flight to Mars and about 0.64 millisieverts per...
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close to the winter solstice in the north polar crater Hermite . This is the coldest temperature in the Solar System ever measured by a spacecraft , colder even than the surface of Pluto .Blanketed on top of the Moon's crust is a highly comminuted (broken into ever smaller particles) and impact gardened mostly gray sur...
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6.605 mi ) , are located directly to the northeast ( 5.441°N 158.656°W / 5.441 ; -158.656 ) , which might have been thickened by the oblique formation impact of the South Pole–Aitken basin .Other large impact basins such as Imbrium, Serenitatis, Crisium, Smythii, and Orientale possess regionally low elevations and ele...
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plains called maria ( sing . mare ; from Latin meaning 'seas ' , as they were once believed to be filled with water ) which are vast solidified pools of ancient basaltic lava .Although similar to terrestrial basalts, lunar basalts have more iron and no minerals altered by water. The majority of these lava deposits erup...
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. Sinuous rilles , found in and around maria , are likely extinct lava channels or collapsed lava tubes . They typically originate from volcanic vents , meandering and sometimes branching as they progress .The largest examples, such as Schroter's Valley and Rima Hadley, are significantly longer, wider, and deeper than ...
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Most of the Moon 's mare basalts erupted during the Imbrian period , 3.3–3.7 billion years ago , though some are as young as 1.2 billion years and as old as 4.2 billion years .In 2006, a study of Ina, a tiny depression in Lacus Felicitatis, found jagged, relatively dust-free features that, because of the lack of erosio...
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Earth a few tens of millions of years after the Moon 's formation . Alternatively , it may be a consequence of asymmetrical tidal heating when the Moon was much closer to the Earth .Impact craters A major geologic process that has affected the Moon's surface is impact cratering, with craters formed when asteroids and c...
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useful for assigning relative ages . Because impact craters accumulate at a nearly constant rate , counting the number of craters per unit area can be used to estimate the age of the surface .However care needs to be exercised with the crater counting technique due to the potential presence of secondary craters. Ejecta...
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They are hypothesized to be areas that have been partially shielded from the solar wind , resulting in slower space weathering . Presence of water Liquid water can not persist on the lunar surface .When exposed to solar radiation, water quickly decomposes through a process known as photodissociation and is lost to spac...
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, using the on-board Moon Mineralogy Mapper . The spectrometer observed absorption lines common to hydroxyl , in reflected sunlight , providing evidence of large quantities of water ice , on the lunar surface .The spacecraft showed that concentrations may possibly be as high as 1,000 ppm. Using the mapper's reflectance...
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2018 for the first time `` definitive evidence '' for water-ice on the lunar surface . The data revealed the distinct reflective signatures of water-ice , as opposed to dust and other reflective substances .The ice deposits were found on the North and South poles, although it is more abundant in the South, where water ...
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on the Moon . Due to tidal locking , the Moon has a 1:1 spin–orbit resonance . This rotation–orbit ratio makes the Moon 's orbital periods around Earth equal to its corresponding rotation periods .This is the reason for only one side of the Moon, its so-called near side, being visible from Earth. That said, while the m...
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components : a fixed one due to Earth , because they are in synchronous rotation , a variable tide due to orbital eccentricity and inclination , and a small varying component from the Sun .The Earth-induced variable component arises from changing distance and libration, a result of the Moon's orbital eccentricity and i...
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place `` under '' the Moon , while another such tide is opposite . The tide under the Moon is explained by the Moon 's gravity being stronger on the water close to it .The tide on the opposite side can be explained either by the centrifugal force as the Earth orbits the barycenter or by the water's inertia as the Moon'...
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, lost from the Earth , is transferred to the Moon in a process known as tidal acceleration , which lifts the Moon into a higher orbit while lowering orbital speed around the Earth .This has resulted in the length of a anomalistic month having increased from 20 days to today's 27.55 days over the course of 3.2 billion ...
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that tidal interaction with Earth would break apart the Moon , turning it into a ring system . Most of the orbiting rings will begin to decay , and the debris will impact Earth .Hence, even if the Sun does not swallow up Earth, the planet may be left moonless. Orientation and appearance The Moon appears in Earth's sky ...
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distance and apparent size fluctuate up to 14 % . On average the Moon 's angular diameter is about 0.52° , roughly the same apparent size as the Sun ( see § Eclipses ) .In addition, a purely psychological effect, known as the Moon illusion, makes the Moon appear larger when close to the horizon. Rotation The tidally lo...
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orbit around Earth ) due to it being tidally locked to Earth . Since the Moon is not tidally locked to the Sun , lunar daylight and night times both occur around the Moon .The changing position of the illumination of the Moon by the Sun during a lunar day is observable from Earth as the changing lunar phases, waxing cr...
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perigee ( closest point ) . The number of days since the most recent new moon is called the Moon 's age . A complete cycle of lunar phases is known as a lunation .The approximate age and phase of the Moon for any date can be calculated by determining the number of days since a known new moon (e.g., January 1, 1900, or ...
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, primarily due to the inclination of the lunar orbit , which is more than 5° relative to the Earth 's equator , which in turn is inclined more than 23° to the ecliptic .Observational phenomena There has been historical controversy over whether observed features on the Moon's surface change over time. Today, many of th...
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lunar eclipses or occasionally blue due to volcanic particles . The Moon also exhibits retro-reflection , scattering light back toward its source and creating a uniform brightness across its disc without significant limb darkening .Its apparent size and brightness vary due to its elliptical orbit, appearing up to 30% b...
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is much larger than the Moon , but it is the vastly greater distance that gives it the same apparent size as the much closer and much smaller Moon from the perspective of Earth .The variations in apparent size, due to the non-circular orbits, are nearly the same as well, though occurring in different cycles. This makes...
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The periodicity and recurrence of eclipses of the Sun by the Moon , and of the Moon by Earth , is described by the saros , which has a period of approximately 18 years .Because the Moon continuously blocks the view of a half-degree-wide circular area of the sky, the related phenomenon of occultation occurs when a brigh...
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Enheduanna , Akkadian high priestess to the lunar deity Nanna/Sin and pricess , daughter of Sargon the Great ( c. 2334 – c. 2279 BCE ) , had the Moon tracked in her chambers .The oldest found and identified depiction of the Moon in an astronomical relation to other astronomical features is the Nebra sky disc from c. 18...
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the Sun . In the same century , Aristarchus computed the size and distance of the Moon from Earth , obtaining a value of about twenty times the radius of Earth for the distance .The Chinese of the Han dynasty believed the Moon to be energy equated to qi and their 'radiating influence' theory recognized that the light o...
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reported on in 1608 . The first record of telescopic astronomy and rough mapping of the Moon 's features is from early summer 1609 by Thomas Harriot , but which he did not publish .At the same time Galileo Galilei too started to use telescopes to observe the sky and the Moon, recording later that year more detailed obs...
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closely followed development of launch systems by the two states , resulting in the so-called Space Race and its later phase the Moon Race , accelerating efforts and interest in exploration of the Moon .After the first spaceflight of Sputnik 1 in 1957 during International Geophysical Year the spacecraft of the Soviet U...
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mission to lunar orbit ( the first Earthlings , two tortoises , had circled the Moon three months earlier on the Soviet Union 's Zond 5 , followed by turtles on Zond 6 ) .The first time a person landed on the Moon and any extraterrestrial body was when Neil Armstrong, the commander of the American mission Apollo 11, se...
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they are still being used . Apollo 17 in 1972 remains the last crewed mission to the Moon . Explorer 49 in 1973 was the last dedicated U.S. probe to the Moon until 1994 .The Soviet Union continued sending robotic missions to the Moon until 1976, deploying in 1970 with Luna 17 the first remote controlled rover Lunokhod ...
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) to the Moon again for the first time since 1973 . This mission obtained the first near-global topographic map of the Moon , and the first global multispectral images of the lunar surface .In 1998, this was followed by the Lunar Prospector mission, whose instruments indicated the presence of excess hydrogen at the lun...
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an eight-month period , and in 2013 with Chang ' e 3 , a lunar lander along with a lunar rover named Yutu ( Chinese : 玉兔 ; lit . 'Jade Rabbit ' ) .This was the first lunar rover mission since Lunokhod 2 in 1973 and the first lunar soft landing since Luna 24 in 1976, making China the third country to achieve this. In 20...
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Notably , Japan 's spacecraft , the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon , survived 3 lunar nights . The IM-1 lander became the first commercially built lander to land on the Moon in 2024 .China launched the Chang'e 6 on May 3, 2024, which conducted another lunar sample return from the far side of the Moon. It also carr...
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Luna program ) , just a year into the space age , after the first ever orbital flight . Since then , humans have sent a range of probes and people to the Moon .The first stay of people on the Moon was conducted in 1969, in a series of crewed exploration missions (the Apollo Program), the last having taken place in 1972...
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most advanced project as part of the Artemis program . Human impact While the Moon has the lowest planetary protection target-categorization , its degradation as a pristine body and scientific place has been discussed .If there is astronomy performed from the Moon, it will need to be free from any physical and radio po...
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11 goodwill messages , six lunar plaques , the Fallen Astronaut memorial , and other artifacts . Astronomy from the Moon The Moon has been used as a site for astronomical and Earth observations .The Earth appears in the Moon's sky with an apparent size of 1° 48′ to 2°, three to four times the size of the Moon or Sun in...
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up to three days . Altogether twelve people have stayed on the Moon over the course of six visits . They all lived in one type of surface habitat , the Apollo Lunar Module .In the course of these stays some people have spent in total up to one day roaming the surface. Challenges when roaming the surface arise from luna...
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been signed and ratified by 18 nations , none of which have human spaceflight capabilities . Since 2020 , countries have joined the U.S. in their Artemis Accords , which are challenging the treaty .The U.S. has furthermore emphasized in a presidential executive order ("Encouraging International Support for the Recovery...
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raised the need for coordination to safeguard international and commercial lunar activity . Issues from cooperation to mere coordination , through for example the development of a shared Lunar time , have been raised .In particular the establishment of an international or United Nations regulatory regime for lunar huma...
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