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The dark side of the moon (not Pink Floyd related)
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:33 am
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:33 am
This is the side of the moon we never see. Just saw it and thought it interesting
If you don't have much going on at work today the Wikipedia page on the Moon is really interesting reading: LINK
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Image Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Explanation: Tidally locked in synchronous rotation, the Moon always presents its familiar nearside to denizens of planet Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon's farside can become familiar, though. In fact this sharp picture, a mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's wide angle camera, is centered on the lunar farside. Part of a global mosaic of over 15,000 images acquired between November 2009 and February 2011, the highest resolution version shows features at a scale of 100 meters per pixel. Surprisingly, the rough and battered surface of the farside looks very different from the nearside covered with smooth dark lunar maria. The likely explanation is that the farside crust is thicker, making it harder for molten material from the interior to flow to the surface and form the smooth maria.
If you don't have much going on at work today the Wikipedia page on the Moon is really interesting reading: LINK
This post was edited on 12/30/16 at 11:35 am
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Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:35 am to DavidTheGnome
"There actually is no dark side of the moon....."
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:35 am to DavidTheGnome
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This is the side of the moon we never see.
quote:
Just saw it
Liar.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:37 am to DavidTheGnome
There is no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:37 am to DavidTheGnome
Great album
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:38 am to DavidTheGnome
The moon, the original myspace fatty
Ensuring it always show itself from certain angles and not giving the full picture until that first date.
I'm going to have sex with you anyways moon, but be sure I won't be calling you back
Ensuring it always show itself from certain angles and not giving the full picture until that first date.
I'm going to have sex with you anyways moon, but be sure I won't be calling you back
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:38 am to DavidTheGnome
Some good songs to trip to
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:39 am to blueboy
quote:
There is no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark.
No kidding
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:39 am to DavidTheGnome
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Tidally locked in synchronous rotation,
What does this mean?
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:42 am to OysterPoBoy
The moon rotates in sync with the earth so that the near side is always facing earth while it orbits us and we rotate as well.
All while rotating our star.
Pretty damn cool actually.
All while rotating our star.
Pretty damn cool actually.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:44 am to DavidTheGnome
The lunatic is in my head.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:46 am to floyd of pink
Also apparently, eventually the earth with also slow it's rotation down to sync with the sun.
That will cost a lot of people a lot of money and be a truly catastrophic climate change.
That will cost a lot of people a lot of money and be a truly catastrophic climate change.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:49 am to KosmoCramer
And I'll see you on the dark side of the earth.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:58 am to LSUBoo
I was just reading we will probably be engulfed by the sun before we reach tidal synchronization.
I'm actually upset, I was looking forward to seeing that.
I'm actually upset, I was looking forward to seeing that.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:58 am to KosmoCramer
Bummer, dude.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:59 am to KosmoCramer
Isn't China about to land on the dark side of the moon?
Posted on 12/30/16 at 12:03 pm to OysterPoBoy
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What does this mean?
Tidal locking: LINK
A tidally locked body in synchronous rotation takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around its partner.
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