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Moons and Natural Satellites
Natural Satellites, also know as moons, are natural celestial bodies revolving around a bigger object like a planet or a dwarf planet. Some famous natural satellites are our Moon (Luna), Ganymede, Europa and Titan.
601 Questions
Did the space shuttle ever land on the moon?
No. The space shuttle is built for low Earth orbit, not moon landings.
When did Lance Armstrong first land on the moon?
Lance Armstrong never went to the moon. Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Where is our moon located in the solar system?
Our moon orbits Earth, which is the third planet from the sun in our solar system.
When did buzz adrin land on the moon?
Apollo 11 landed on the moon at 4:17 EDT on the afternoon of July 20, 1969.
No. The Galilean moons are the four largest moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) discovered by Galileo. Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
It is the closest object in space to us and is fascinating to observe with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. As long as humans can remember they have been watching it.
Why have many jovian moons been more geologically active than the moon or mercury?
Unlike Earth's moon and Mercury, the Jovian moons are subject to very strong tidal forces that heat their interiors.
What was the purpose of The Moon Spirit and Coyote Woman?
That love barely dies, and that the two lovers, Moon Spirit and Coyote would be together to the end, death.
Did the rusians reach the moon?
No, the Russians did not reach the moon. The United States was the first and only country to have successfully landed astronauts on the moon as part of the Apollo program in 1969. The Soviet Union did achieve significant milestones in space exploration, but they did not land astronauts on the moon.
What was the moon phases yesterday and today?
"Today" is a moving target.
This question was posted on February 8, 2011, and the Moon is a waxing crescent moon, about 5 days past the new, with 30% of the Moon's visible surface illuminated.
Does the Earth have more natural or more artificial satellites?
Earth has one natural satellite and more than a thousand artificial satellites.
Was all the trips to moon successful?
No, the Apollo 13 mission was nearly lost when they had problems. Tom Hanks made a movie about it. You may remember " Houston, I think we have a problem." That is where it comes from.
What separates the 4 inner planets from the four outer planets?
The asteroid belt is generally regarded as the boundary between the inner solar system and the outer solar system.
Does the moon protect itself from solar winds?
The Moon is an airless rock; there is no protection from the solar winds. In fact, the dust on the Moon's surface is probably permeated with solar particles that have hit the Moon. There are even proposals to send astronauts back to the Moon to mine the lunar dust and collect Helium 3 atoms that are believed to have been radiated from the Sun as part of the solar wind, and return the He3 to Earth.
Our current prototype nuclear fusion power systems are incapable of producing more energy than is required to run the reactor and maintain the fusion process; the hope is that Helium 3 atoms (two protons and only one neutron, rather than the usual two) were sort-of "partially fused" in the Sun already and that they could be induced to fuse with ordinary hydrogen. This should, in theory, be easier than causing two deuterium atoms to fuse.
The economics of mining the lunar dust and returning it to Earth are tenuous at best, but He3 reactors might be a possible source of energy on the Moon itself.
You mean like a Harvest Moon, or a Blue Moon? There are certainly Moons which appear yellow enough to be called "golden" but that's a matter of individual discretion; "Golden Moon" is not an "official" Moon on any of the lists.
The "Harvest Moon" is the Full Moon on the date closest to the Autumnal Equinox.
It's so called because it's the full moon whose rising time is retarded least from one
night to the next, as if to extend the hours of light that could be used for the men
in the field to conduct the harvest at that season.
Does the moon actually have a face?
No. There is simply an arrangement of craters on the moon that some people think looks like a face.
When did john w.young land on the moon?
John Young piloted Apollo 16 Lunar Module named "Orion" to the lunar surface on the moon on April 21, 1972. Young's Lunar Module Pilot for the mission was Charlie Duke who was the Capsule Communicator at Johnson Space Center the day Apollo 11 became the first astronauts to land on the moon. John Young was the Command Module pilot on the Apollo 10 mission which cleared the way for the Apollo 11 landing 2 months later.
Does the moon have its own light?
In the Bible, God created the moon with its own light but i think that the moon nly reflects the light of the sun.
What factors combine to keep the moon in orbit?
An orbit is achileved by a balance of the gravitational pull of the earth and the moon and by the speed of both objects in space and in relation to one another. If something is moving too fast, it will fly past the earth and if it's going too slow, it will crash into it. but if it comes in at the right distance and angle and speed, it will orbit the earth.
