Watch the moon phases and libration for 2024, as seen from Earth's Southern Hemisphere, in this time-lapsed animation that is ...

Libration is the reason this near- and far-side dichotomy isn’t quite so clear-cut. The phenomenon chiefly arises because the moon’s orbit isn’t a perfect circle but is instead quite ...

The moon’s libration. How flipping cool is this? Hai-Ting and Matt write the Scopes Monkey Choir blog, which you should have in your feed reader. I love how science inspires art.

McCarthy's moon libration video animation offers a stunning look at how the moon changes over time from month to month in its orbit. On average, the distance from the Earth to the moon is about ...

This is a well-known phenomenon called 'libration', and occurs due to our changing view of the Moon; By SHIVALI BEST FOR MAILONLINE. Published: 11:18 EDT, ...

ARTEMIS: First Earth-Moon libration orbiter Date: September 15, 2010 Source: NASA Summary: In August 1960, NASA launched its first communications satellite, Echo 1.

Mimas, the wobbly little moon orbiting Saturn, is a ringer for the space station from ‘Star Wars,’ but that’s not the only odd thing about it—it may have a huge ocean under its surface.

This is called the lunar libration. There’s also the daily libration. The Earth is a big place with respect to the size of the moon, and when it spins it covers a lot of ground.

In 1962, two researchers hashed out one of the earliest proposals to treat libration points as space destinations. Space historian and Beyond Apollo blogger David S. F. Portree describes a ...

Azimuthal libration describes how, whenever Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, it is always at least 90 degrees away from Neptune. Meanwhile, ...

They proposed that forced physical libration amplitudes exceeding 100 meters at Miranda, Ariel, and Umbriel could indicate the decoupling of global oceans beneath thick ice shells.

And azimuthal libration ensures Pluto never crosses Neptune’s orbit within 90° of the ice giant. These properties are a consequence of a so-called orbital resonance between the two worlds.