![]() ![]() Also: Phases of the Moon, animated with Virtual Moon Atlas. Next, watch the phases of the moon visualized from the other side, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Images of Apollo landing sites, and Why The Full Moon is Better in Winter. Astronomers call this tidal locking, and happens because of the gravitational interaction between worlds. ![]() Pluto and Charon are even stranger, the two worlds are locked, facing one another for all eternity. All major moons of Jupiter and Saturn show the same face to their parent. The Moon isn’t the only place in the Solar System where this happens. It also configures NASA's Eyes Server to download its files to a specific destination (such as an external drive) and to download a subset of the files required for specific modules. It’s always turning, showing us exactly the same face. NASA's Eyes Config enables Eyes to be configured to startup with various options, including fullscreen mode, a specific module, or to use NASA's Eyes Server. If you could look at the Moon orbiting the Earth from above, you’d see that it orbits once on its axis exactly as long as it takes to orbit once around our planet. ![]() As you know, our modest Moon only shows us one face. Look again tomorrow, and you’ll be able to see… the exact same things. Take out a nice pair of binoculars, or a small telescope tonight and you’ll be able to see huge craters and ancient lava plains. This full 360-degree rotation is a view that humans rarely see. It was created from 110,000 high-resolution WAC images that were digitally stitched together after differences in both sun angle and LRO camera view angle were calculated and adjusted for. From the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), providing a very wide field-of-view, view Earth’s moon from all sides. ![]()
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