... It is about 150 million km away (93 million miles), a distance which sunlight covers in 8 minutes, whereas the distance to the moon is only 1.3 light-seconds. ...
... 4. The Moon: the Distant View . 4a. The Moon: A Closer Look . ... 4a. The Moon: A Closer Look . 4b. Optional: Libration of the Moon . 5. ... 4a. The Moon: A Closer Look . 4b. Optional: Libration of the Moon . 5. ...
... The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. ...
... Edge-on rings and two moons from HST (May 95) 64k gif ; ( html ) . ... Edge-on rings and four moons from HST (August 95) 24k jpg ; 108k gif ( caption ) . ... some of Saturn's moons during the 1995 ring plane crossing 90k mpg . ...
... Spacemen of fiction - Jules Verne's travelers to the Moon, or the comic strip heroes Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers - were familiar characters midway through the 20th Century, but nobody could describe accurately a real astronaut. ...