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The Moon always shows Earth nearly the same face
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The Moon always shows Earth nearly the same face

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Water ice can survive in permanently shadowed lunar craters
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Water ice can survive in permanently shadowed lunar craters

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A total solar eclipse can turn day into twilight
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A total solar eclipse can turn day into twilight

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The Moon drifts away from Earth about 3.8 cm every year
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The Moon drifts away from Earth about 3.8 cm every year

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Mars has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos
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Mars has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos

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Astronaut footprints on the Moon can last millions of years
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Astronaut footprints on the Moon can last millions of years

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Lunar laser ranging times the Moon’s distance to millimeter precision

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Triton’s crust is blanketed mostly in frozen nitrogen

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Lunar regolith is sharp dust ground by impacts

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Many moons keep one face locked toward their planet

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A light-second is about 300,000 kilometers

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Most of Saturn’s ring material orbits inside the planet’s Roche limit

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Leaving Earth takes about 11.2 km/s of escape speed

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An annular eclipse leaves a ring of fire in the sky

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The Keeler Gap is a thin slit near Saturn’s A-ring outer edge

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The Moon has no global magnetic field today

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The Moon’s far side was first photographed in 1959

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Titan’s surface air presses about 1.5 times Earth’s

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Pluto spans only about two-thirds the Moon’s diameter

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Apollo lunar rovers extended exploration beyond walking range

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Close exoplanets often tidally lock one face toward their star

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Lunar Gateway is planned as a Moon-orbit staging station

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Earthshine faintly lights the Moon’s dark side

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A total lunar eclipse can turn the Moon copper-red

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Lunar dust clung to Apollo suits like abrasive talc

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