Moon Essay

In Graph JM2-17, the cosine curve for both is very similar. Both months/graphs start out at a very minimal percent illumination of the moon, reaching peak illumination around the 12th and 13th day of the months. They also both reach the point of no illumination on the exact same day of the month, the 28th. These patterns follow that of the lunar month. The differences are that the month of March takes about one day longer to reach 100% than that of January, which is still in line with the…

What if I told you that we never went to the moon? Do you think our country would be like it is today if we could not say that we were first to go to the moon? That the moon landing took place in a movie studio rather than on the actual moon? That the people seen on television that July morning were merely actors in costume. The account that we have not been to the moon has not only brought up controversy for decades but also has been labeled as a conspiracy. Between the late 40’s and the early…

ocean, and the Moon’s phases influences our calendar. The Moon takes about 27.3 days to orbit around the Earth. The light that the Moon gives off is only a reflection of the Sun’s light, bouncing off of it. The Moon only reflects about twelve percent of the light that hits it because of its rugged, and dark surface. The position of which the Moon is at while orbiting can also affect the light that we get from it. For example, when the Moon is full it could be up to twenty percent brighter than…

Scientists have been studying the moon, Enceladus, for a couple of months, so this is a newer subject. The topics I will be covering are Cassini, the icy crust, hydrothermal activity and depth, rotation of the moon, methane, and the moon’s atmosphere. There are also many scientific possibilities that lie in this moon, scientists believe that there is a possibility animals can live here. NASA is trying to create more space crafts to launch to other planets, to see if they are livable for…

of Apollo 13 was to land on the moon and return safely. Granted Apollo 13 did not land on the moon due to an oxygen tank exploding, they returned the astronauts home safely, which should be the biggest goal or accomplishment. Apollo 13 was a success after it returned in one piece. A failure is the lack of success. To fully succeed the crew needed to touch down on the moon, and return home. After having technical difficulties, Apollo 13 could not land on the moon, thus failing the only…

the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win” (Kennedy, John). July 20th 1969, the day history was shaped and a path laid for the future. This was the day that Astronauts would land on the moon.…

that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." He told America that if they were to reach the moon that they would have to work together. It was from that point on that the U.S. really started pulling forward in the Space Race. NASA realized that before they could send a man to the moon they would have to have a filler mission in which a group of three astronauts were sent into orbit in the…

it with the 7.5 million LBs The launch of Apollo 11 using the saturnV rocket Launched in Florida on July 16, 1969of thrust. The SaturnV’s main uses is to go to the moon and lower Earth orbit. The SaturnV has a tiny capsule that carries 3 astronauts on the mission to the moon, “Designed to fly three Apollo astronauts to the moon and back.” (Karl Tate) Many test fights were done before the Apollo used the rocket to go to the…

think, myself, screamed when the black body of the moon detached from the sky and rolled off the sun.” (889) In this instance, the moon is the devil that covers God’s angelic light from glistening over the land and the people. The experience is life threatening because the moon has created a dark feeling inside of the people that makes them realize that without the sun, everyone with cease to exist. The darkness scares them, and personifying the moon as a black body that covers the sun,…

The rise and fall of sea levels caused by the effects of the gravitational forces applied by the moon, sun, and the rotation of the Earth are known as tides. The movements of the Earth, the sun, and the moon are key in understanding how tides work. Gravitational pull, centrifugal force, distance, and mass determine the actions of the ocean’s tides. Gravity and centrifugal force work in opposite directions to keep the ocean’s water levels balanced. As the Earth rotates on its axis, gravity pulls…