Luna, alternative name for the moon, sleeping in the light of which is reputed to cause a form of madness, called lunacy.
Luna 17 was launched from an earth parking orbit towards the Moon and entered lunar orbit on November 15, 1970. The spacecraft soft landed on the Moon in the Sea of Rains.
Luna 9 soft landing capsule (NASA)
When assembled, the photographs provided a panoramic view of the nearby lunar surface. The pictures included views of nearby rocks and of the horizon 1.4 km away from the spacecraft.
La Luna: Sólo es una fase que recorre su camino...
Nota del redactor: El vigésimo aniversario del primer aterrizaje en la luna -cuando Neil Armstrong y Edwin Aldrin se convirtieron en los primeros miembros de nuestra especie que caminaron ...
Luna 10 was launched on 31 March 1966 and Luna 12 on 22 October 1966. They were the first Luna spacecraft intended to go into orbit around the moon, rather than soft or hard landing there.
Luna (1958-1976)
Overview
The USSR Luna program was aimed at the exploration of Earth's closest sizeable celestial neighbor: The moon. The Luna program achieved much exploration - despite many failed missions - and set many firsts.
La Luna tarda 27 322 días en darle una vuelta completa a la Tierra. A causa de este movimiento, pareciera que la Luna se mueve, aproximadamene, 13° en dirección opuesta a las estrellas o, aproximadamente, medio grado por hora.
Luna
The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth: orbit: 384,400 km from Earth diameter: 3476 km mass: 7.35e22 kg
Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks, and many other names in other mythologies.
Luna Island is a very small uninhabited island in Niagara Falls, New York, New York. It is between the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls , which are two of the three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls....
Luna: One of two successful series of Soviet unpiloted lunar missions. There were 24 missions to the Moon in the Luna series launched from 1959 to 1976.
Luna is a beautiful world that lies some 384,400 kilometers from Earth. It is littered with mountains, valleys, old volcano sites, and many bowl like holes called Craters.
LUNA 1
Luna 1 or Mechta (meaning "dream" in Russian) was a sphere-shaped spacecraft that was the first to orbit the moon. It was launchedfrom Earth on January 2, 1959.
-5.877
(20% Luna)
Neptune's second known satellite (by order of distance), the irregular moon Nereid, has one of the most eccentric orbits of any satellite in the solar system.
1959, 2 January---Luna 1 launched by Soviet Union, comes within 6000 km of Moon;
Luna 3 (October) takes picture of Moon's far side.
1961, 12 April---Yuri Gagarin becomes first human to orbit Earth.
The Soviet Union's Luna 3 solved an ancient mystery in 1959 when it snapped the first pictures of the far side of the Moon (left).
1959 - Moon - Success - Luna 1 flyby launched, it discovered solar wind
1959 - Moon - Pioneer 4 flyby
1959 - Moon - Success - Luna 2 lander launched, it was the first spacecraft to impact onto he surface of the moon ...
Luna 1 (U.S.S.R.) escapes Earth's gravity.
1959 A.D. Vanguard 2 (U.S.A.) takes first photos of Earth.
1959 A.D. Luna 2 (U.S.S.R.) hits the Moon.
1959 A.D. Luna 3 (U.S.S.R.) returns first pictures of far side of Moon.
1960 A.D.
The Soviet Union's Luna program was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned spacecraft.
and the Luna series by the USSR in the 1960s, and, finally, the manned landings on the lunar surface as part of the U.S. Apollo program made direct measurement of the physical and chemical properties of the moon a reality.
Thirteen months later, on January 4, 1959, the Soviet Luna 1, the first human-made craft to escape Earth's gravity, passed the Moon.
The mystery began to be dispelled with the flight of the Soviet probe Luna 3 in 1959, which returned the first photographs of the far side.
The only known LUN N meteorite, found in three pieces near Dchira in the Western Sahara and named NWA 773, is especially important because it represents a type of rock never sampled by the Luna or Apollo landing missions, ...
Estos trajes espaciales servían para proteger a los astronautas que caminaban por la luna. A diferencia de los otros trajes, los del Apolo tenían botas para caminar por superficies rocosas.
The Moon, sometimes called Luna, is a wonderful sight and many amateur astronomers love to learn their way around it.
Earth's only natural satellite is the , sometimes called Luna.
The (i.e.
On April 4, 1966, the Soviet Union launched Luna 10, the first spacecraft from Earth to orbit the Moon. Russia had tried to probe the Moon as early as 1958. Altogether, the USSR launched 24 exploration spacecraft in the Luna series from 1959-1976.
The Moon has had many names throughout history, including Luna (ancient Roman) and Artemis (ancient Greek).
* First spacecraft to orbit the Sun, Luna 1 (U.S.S.R., 1959).
* Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered (1905).
* Leslie C. Peltier, one of the greatest variable star observers of all time, born (1900).
The USSR's Luna 1 reported that there were very few particles of high energy within the outer belt. The gyroradii for energetic protons would be large enough to bring them into contact with the Earth's atmosphere.
Andoria (orbits Andor)
Jeraddo (orbits Bajor)
Luna (orbits Earth)
Mimas (orbits Saturn)
Praxis (orbited Qo'noS)
Rinax (orbits Talax)
Titan (orbits Saturn) ...
The far side of the moon was first observed by humans in 1959 when the unmanned Soviet Luna 3 mission orbited the moon and photographed it.
The average person knows that people have landed on the Moon, but do not know anything about Luna beyond that. There are many interesting facts about the Moon that can be found in the links here on Universe Today.
5 days and its rotation time is the same so we always see the same side of the moon facing us. The first time mankind ever got a view of the dark side of the moon was when the Luna 3 space probe sent back photos in 1959.
Despite the waning daylight, this November presents a Moon that flies higher into the sky than the summer solstice Sun. Why not celebrate Luna reaching her northernmost point for the year on the night of November 12-13?
 See also: Earth, Planet, Solar, Orbit, Moon
|
