Moon observation and M Guide - Resources and Review

Text from a series of educational leaflets covering the structure, characteristics and observation of the moon and all the planets of the solar system. Educational use of the information by private individuals or schools is encouraged.
 
Tutorial that explains the elements of the lunar phases one
by-one, with sections on time of day, time of month, and apparent direction of the moon.
 
Details of the first NASA mission to the Moon for 25 years. As well as mission status reports and news of the search of the Lunar Prospector spacecraft (launched on 6 January 1998) for water ice on the lunar surface, there is a partial lunar gazetteer and a large body of general information about the Moon, past and present.
 
An overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
 
Enables the user to display a virtual reality image of the phases of the moon between 1800 and 2199 AD. Also includes calculations of sunrises and sunsets or moonrises and moonsets worldwide, the dates of Ash Wednesday and Easter, and a Julian Date converter. Celestial Navigation Data and Orbital Elements of Asteroids are also included.
 
Information about Apollo 11, the first successful mission to the moon. Features comments from astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, bibliographies including an annotated bibliography of the Apollo program, biographies of Apollo 11 crew members, documents providing information about various missions, guidelines and costs, galleries of images, and timelines.
 
Digitised version of images first printed in a 1971 atlas. Material is accessible via listings of feature names, descending N and S latitude, and descending E and W longitude. In addition, feature names, photo numbers, and co
ordinate ranges are fully searchable.
 
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