The project explores the "wild imaginaries of extraction-driven growth," such as the development of human settlements on the Moon or the asteroid mining of rare minerals and metals. As the starting point for the exhibition, the team questions the impact of this new space race that promises ...
Children's understandings of the shape and relative sizes of the Earth, Sun and Moon have been extensively researched and in a variety of ways. Much is known about the confusions which arise as young people try to grasp ideas about the world and our neighbouring celestial bodies. Despite ...
The shape we see depends on how the Earth, sun, and moon line up. Only 12 people have walked on the moon. U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong was first, in 1969. He took this photo of Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin. Astronauts first flew to the moon in 1968. That was over 50 years ago. The...
Departures from the spherical shape and the effect of Earth’s rotation cause gravity to vary with latitude over the terrestrial surface. The average gravitational acceleration at sea level is about 980 cm/sec2 (32.2 feet/sec2). Earth’s gravity keeps the Moon in its orbit around the planet...
'City-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists say What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images) We now know the shape of notorious asteroid 2024 YR4 that dominated headlines recently — it's probably 'suburban,' too...
Unlike the moon, Earth's primary companion which has accompanied our planet for around 4 billion years, this "new mini-moon" will stick around for just two months before it heads back to its home in an asteroid belt trailing our planet and orbiting the sun. A team of scientists well-vers...
From a distance, the sun and all itsplanets may look like perfect spheres. They're not. Centrifugal force and "self-gravity" combine to keep them in the shape of anoblate spheroid. Such objects mayresembletrue spheres, but they're somewhat squashed. ...
阅读理解As the moon travels around the earth,it appears to change shape.We associate names with certain shapes of the moon.For example,when we can see a small part of the moon is called a crescent(新月) moon. A crescent is a shape that looks like the tip of a fingernail(手指甲) when...
On June 1, Chang'e 6 touched down softly near the Lunar South Pole. This was the second time China achieved this feat, and they remain the only nation to have done so. China just landed a probe on the far side of the Moon - this time nearer the south pole, to gather volcanic samp...
The Moon appears to move across the sky at night just as the Sun does in the day. But as well as moving across the sky, the moon appears to change its shape from one night to the next. It seems to start as a thin crescent(新月) and then get fatter and fatter until, after a ...