Great success. One question: where is the light coming to the ‘dark side‘? The terrain picture is very bright.
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There is no “dark side” of the moon, only a side that never faces Earth. Here is a photo I took of the Moon through my telescope. If you imagine the Moon as a 3D sphere, you’ll see that the side that never faces us has sunlight on it too.pic.twitter.com/6TRqOE0ULl
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Here’s another picture I took - imagine the sun is off to the right relative to the moon so the right side of the moon on side we never see is half in sunlight toopic.twitter.com/0ODKZRpuXO
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Question: Are The moon's phases similar to the earths' in a way that the pole will have periods of sunlight lasting longer than 15 or so days?
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1 of 2 : In short, Earth 24 hour sun at the polar regions is due to our +/- 23 degree axial tilt which gives us seasons. The northern summer starts 21st June pointing the north pole in direct sunlight for 6 months (thus the south pole is in 24 hour darkness for 6 months)
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2 of 2: The moon only has a 1.5 degree tilt so doesn’t have “seasons”, however, certain craters (i.e. Shackleton Crater) cast shadows that mean parts of the crater never receives sunlight
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The Shackleton Crater is ideal for a moon base. The rim is in permanent sunlight for power generation, temperatures are relatively stable at the crater and the nearby 5km tall Malapert mountain would act as a great radio relay
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Does China really use a Star Trek Starfleet symbol for their space program?



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I saw that too. I was thinking, dang China really living up to their copyright stealing stereotype.
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Man don’t you guys know all space pictures are computer graphics!! Period!!!
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Atleast they were smart enough to include cgi stars.

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True indeed!! Chinese nasa stepping up the game with the computer graphic stars


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Two extremes: On the one hand landing on Moon and on the other hand beating Uyghurs with lashes and whips!
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Not enough diversity in that control room.
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