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Keywords: Moon, lunation, phase
![Кратеры и тени около лунного терминатора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/05/22/0001411371/TerminatorMoon_Zia_960.preview.jpg)
21.05.2018
Why does the right part of this image of the Moon stand out? Shadows. The terminator line -- the line between light and dark -- occurs in the featured image so that just over half the Moon's face is illuminated by sunlight.
![Восход Луны между космическими кораблями](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/02/22/0001727446/StarshipsMoon_Kraus_1080.preview.jpg)
21.02.2021
What's that on either side of the Moon? Starships. Specifically, they are launch-and-return reusable rockets being developed by SpaceX to lift cargo and eventually humans from the Earth's surface into space.
![С Луны на Землю](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/07/20/0001235572/apollo11return_nasa.preview.jpg)
19.07.2009
After the most famous voyage of modern times, it was time to go home. After proving that humanity has the ability to go beyond the confines of planet Earth, the first humans to walk...
![Система Земля-Луна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/05/0001192713/earthmoon_near_big.preview.jpg)
28.01.1998
This evocative mosaic image of the Earth-Moon system was recorded by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft earlier this month. The relative sizes shown are appropriate for viewing both the Earth...
![Спутники Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/09/0001198945/moonmir_sts91_big.preview.jpg)
13.08.1998
While orbiting the planet during their June 1998 mission, the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery photographed this view of two moons of Earth. Thick storm clouds are visible in the lovely blue planet...
![Тень Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192779/moonshad_goes_big.preview.gif)
11.03.1998
When the Moon's shadow reached out and touched the Earth last month, the result was a Solar Eclipse. Such an eclipse is total only for observers located along a narrow path corresponding to the ground track of the shadow's dark central portion or "umbra".
![Земля из голубого мрамора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/04/28/0001189737/bluemarble2k.preview.jpg)
26.04.2003
This reconstructed digital portrait of our planet is reminiscent of the Apollo-era pictures of the "big blue marble" Earth from space. To create it, researchers at Goddard Space Flight Center's Laboratory for Atmospheres...
![Когда Луна была молодая](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/13/0001205781/YoungMoon0_seip_f62.preview.jpg)
13.05.2005
Remember when the Moon was young? It was just last Monday. On May 9th, this slender crescent Moon was recorded at a tender age of 34 hours and 18 minutes. Well, OK ... when calculating...
![Луна и звезда в рентгеновских лучах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/25/0001193371/gx5moon_rosat.preview.gif)
26.02.1996
An X-ray star winks out behind the Moon in these before and after views of a lunar occultation of the galactic X-ray source designated GX5-1. The false color images were made using data...
![Тени на южном полюсе Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/04/24/0001251404/SouthPoleShadows_lro800.preview.jpg)
23.04.2011
What is it? It's a multi-temporal illumination map, of course. To make it, the wide angle camera on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft collected 1,700 images over a period of 6 lunar days (6 Earth months), repeatedly covering an area centered on the Moon's south pole.
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