Lunar mare

On August 21, the first total Solar Eclipse since 1979 took place. It was called “Great America Eclipse.” The eclipse was seen by the whole United States and passed from the Pacific to the Atlantic. A solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the sun and the earth. Not since February 1979 has a total eclipse been visible anywhere for the in the United States. The solar eclipse was seen within a narrow 70 kilometers and 110 kilometers wide going across fourteen states across the United…

Apollo 13, also known as (AS-508), was suppose to be the third mission to land on the moon. The crew on the spacecraft consisted of Fred W. Haise, Jr., lunar Module Pilot, John J. Swigert, Jr., command module pilot, and James A. Lovell, Jr., commander. Launched at 2:13 p.m. on April 11, 1970 from the launched from complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 13 mission was planned to launched and land on the moon and return back to Earth. Unfortunately, after about 56 hours into their…

Summary Andrew Mason founded Groupon in 2006. Based on an idea popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, Mason thought that if consumers could come together as a group they would have more purchasing power to get better deals... Originally named ThePoint, Mason tried to get users to raise money for various causes. The Point could be used for anything “from boycotting a multinational company to getting 20% off a subscription to The Economist”(11-2). To reach its full potential ThePoint would need to…

A feature identifiable through my telescope is the Mare Tranquillitatis or The Sea of Tranquility. Once thought to be an ocean on the Moon. According to NASA, its equatorial position and smooth fields of basaltic lavas was ideal for the first manned lunar landing. Mare Tranquillitatis has a diameter of proximally 873km. When view from Earth, it appears dark this is because the crater has been flooded with mare basalts. Mare Crisium (the sea of Crises), a “nectarine basin (about 3.9 billion…

the moon. Over the next year and a half he drew another seven sketches and two of what he called "Moon maps." These Moon maps were astonishingly accurate and showed many distinct features of the Moon. Included in these sketches was an outline of the lunar terminator, the dividing line between the illuminated and shaded parts of the Moon.…

“Houston, we have lift off” For thousands of years people have wondered what is beyond our planet in the night sky. Is it just stars? Are there planets outside of our home, Earth? The answer is yes not only are there planets, but moons, stars, galaxies and other solar systems. Thanks to great astronomers such as Galileo, Copernicus , Johannes Kepler, Edwin Hubble and many other great minds we have made these ground-breaking discoveries. Not until the latter half of the 20th century did we…

President Kennedy’s challenge along with bringing pride and of course moon rocks to America. First of all, Apollo 11 was the first flight to land a man on the moon. The crew was Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, the landing site was “Mare Tranquilitatis”. The mission was launched on July 16 1969 and landed on July 24…