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Viewed from behind the Moon, the Sun images projected by lunar valleys on the Moon’s edge fall on the Earth’s surface in a flowerlike pattern with a hole in the middle, forming the umbra shape.
Cotton sprouts seen close-up under a protective cover on board the Moon lander. China' s space agency has announced that the cotton seeds it sent to the Moon on its Chang’e 4 lander have sprouted.
Using precise topography data from measurements from LRO & the Space Shuttle, NASA found that the Moon's shadow has something in common with potatoes. Yes, potatoes. Ernie Wright and Susannah ...
Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 kilometers), Amalthea is significantly smaller than Earth 's moon.
The starchy-looking moon Phobos, destined to crash into Mars' surface, has been revealed in new detail by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The 'space potato' image was recently shared on NASA's ...