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Showing posts with label Moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moon. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
China's Moon Experiments are Sprouting Potatoes Cotton Moth Eggs
A photo released by China Central Television on Tuesday shows a cotton seed aboard China's Chang'e 4 lunar probe has sprouted, marking mankind's first biological experiment carried out on the moon.
The cotton cultivation is part of scientific experiments conducted on the lunar probe, which made an unprecedented soft landing on the far side of the moon on Jan 3.
According to a report a "mini-ecosphere" in a cylindrical container developed by Chongqing University is aboard Chang'e 4.
The mini-ecosphere has six biological samples — cotton, oilseed rape, potato, Thale Cress flower, yeast and fruit fly — as well as soil, water and air.
The cotton cultivation is part of scientific experiments conducted on the lunar probe, which made an unprecedented soft landing on the far side of the moon on Jan 3.
According to a report a "mini-ecosphere" in a cylindrical container developed by Chongqing University is aboard Chang'e 4.
The mini-ecosphere has six biological samples — cotton, oilseed rape, potato, Thale Cress flower, yeast and fruit fly — as well as soil, water and air.
Friday, January 11, 2019
New Panoramic Photos from Chinese Rover Dark Side of the Moon
The Chinese Space Agency has released amazing new 360 color photos of the dark side of the moon.
"The lander, its rover, and the relay satellite are all in a stable condition. They have reached the predetermined engineering goals, right now they are getting into the stage of scientific searches," Zhang Kejian, director of the China National Space Administration, said before engineers at the Beijing center.
"The lander, its rover, and the relay satellite are all in a stable condition. They have reached the predetermined engineering goals, right now they are getting into the stage of scientific searches," Zhang Kejian, director of the China National Space Administration, said before engineers at the Beijing center.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Is Our Moon Really Hollow?
“What in blazes is our Moon doing way out there? It’s too far out to be a true satellite of Earth , it is too big to have been captured by the Earth. The chances of such a capture having been effected and the Moon then having taken up a nearly circular orbit about the Earth are too small to make such an eventuality credible. . . . But, then, if the Moon is neither a true satellite of the Earth nor a captured one, what is it?” – Isaac Asimov, Asimov on Astronomy,” Doubleday, 1974; Mercury Press 1963; also quoted in Don Wilson’s book, Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon (1975).
The Moon is the eye in the sky to the inhabitants of Earth. It provides us with the natural tidal cycles which are said to maintain the equilibrium of all species on the planet. Peculiarly, certain phases of the Moon cycle are even known to affect our moods and emotions. Most will likely never question the existence or makeup of the Moon as it does its usual routine of lighting up the night sky and circling the planet, however many scientists are not convinced that the narrative of its origin is as ‘solid’ as we are lead to believe. Much controversy exists around the origin and makeup of the Moon today, and one of the largest arguments surrounding the satellite is the solidity (or lack thereof) of its center and the process by which we got our Moon in the first place.
Source:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/12/11/hold-on-for-this-one-the-moon-is-hollow-and-this-is-why/#sthash.tlc1MaME.dpuf
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