Lecture 2: Our neighbour the Moon, and Spaceflight
Further reading
Source for images
- Background image: View of the lunar surface taken from Apollo 8,
looking southward from high altitude across the Southern Sea. NASA
Photo ID: AS08-12-2192. http://images.jsc.nasa.gov
- Deep Impact transit movie: from NASA Mission News http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/epoxi_transit.html
- Lunar libration: Antonio Cidadao's Lunar and Planetary Observation and CCD imaging
http://www.astrosurf.com/cidadao/animations.htm
- Moon's orbit: redrawn from "The Once and Future Moon" by Paul
Spudis, figs 1.5 and 1.6
- Moon at perigee and apogee: from "Inconstant Moon The Moon at
Perigee and Apogee" by John Walker
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/moon_ap_per.html
- Microcrater: from A MEETING WITH THE UNIVERSE: Science
Discoveries from the Space Program
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/EP-177/cover.html, Appendix A-1
- King crater: from APOLLO OVER THE MOON: A VIEW FROM ORBIT
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-362/cover.htm, fig. 149
- Gagarin crater field: from APOLLO OVER THE MOON: A VIEW FROM ORBIT, fig. 97
- Young craters: the young impact crater Linne, taken by Apollo
15. From APOLLO OVER THE MOON: A VIEW FROM ORBIT, fig. 102
- Euler crater: taken by Apollo 17. From APOLLO OVER THE MOON: A VIEW FROM ORBIT, fig. 138
- Tycho: from the Consolidated Lunar Atlas. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/cla/menu.html
- Tycho's central peak: from LRO, on APOD 2011 July 6 http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110706.html
- Orientale: taken Lunar Orbiter 5, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarorb.html
- Galileo image of Orientale: from the Galileo Legacy Site, http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/earthmoon-moon.cfm
- Basins: from a talk by Hal Levison, "Review of Dynamic Models
Associated with Late Heavy Bombardment",
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~hal/talks/nice/Bomb/basins.html
- Lunar topography: from Araki et al, 2009, "Lunar global shape and
polar topography derived from Kaguya-LALT laser altimetry", Science
323 897
- South Pole-Aitken: Clementine image, from NASA's Solar System
Exploration Gallery,
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=802
- Old and young craters: from "Craters and Planetary History" by Steven Dutch,
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/planets/crathist.htm
- Crater size distribution: from "Introduction to Cratering
Studies" by Greg Herres and William Hartmann,
http://www.psi.edu/projects/mgs/cratering.html
- Pre-space flight depictions of the lunar surface: from a 1955
book "Exploring the Moon" by Roy Gallant, illustrated by Lowell Hess.
From "Dreams of Space" by John Sisson
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/john.htm
- Lunar surface: AS17-137-21011, from http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/html/pao/as17.htm
- Late heavy bombardment: from "Impact Processes on the Early
Earth" by Christian Koeberl1 Elements, vol 2 p. 211-216 (2006)
- Maria: from an essay on The Grand Canyon and the Moon by Charles R. Cowley
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/
- Moon rotation: from Clementine http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/EPO/Educator/educatorsvideos.php
- Moon interior: from Views of the Solar System by Calvin J. Hamilton
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/moon.htm
- Hadley Rille:
http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/AS15/a15landsite.htm
and NSSDC Image Catalog: Apollo 15
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/mission_page/EM_Apollo_15_page1.html
- Lichtenberg crater: Photo Number IV-170-H1, Digital Lunar Orbiter
Photographic Atlas of the Moon
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar_orbiter/index.html
- Radar image of moon: from Cornell University: Chronicle Online
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct06/campbell.lunarice.html;
LCROSS plume from http://www.space.com/7530-significant-amount-water-moon.html
- Throwing balls into orbit: redrawn from "To Rise from Earth" by
Wayne Lee, Fig. 1
- Image of Earth: from Visible Earth: The Blue Marble, http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/2429/globe_east_540.jpg
- All the orbit figures are redrawn from "To Rise from Earth" by
Wayne Lee, animated by HMJ
- Mars image: HST pictures of Mars at opposition, taken on February
25, 1995. Image STScI-PRC1995-17a, from the Hubble Space Telescope
News Center archive, http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/
- Aerobraking: from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter press release 25 August 2006,
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/newsroom/pressreleases/20060825a.html
and Mars Global Surveyor MAG/ER http://mgs-mager.gsfc.nasa.gov/overview/aerobraking.html
- Aerobraking animation: extracted from NASA's Mars Exploration Program: Videos
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/video/movies/aerobraking.mov
- Jupiter image: from StarDate Online http://stardate.org/resources/ssguide/jupiter.html
- Slingshot diagram: redrawn from "The Slingshot Effect" by Bob
Johnson http://www.dur.ac.uk/bob.johnson/SL/
- Galileo's VEEGA trajectory: from http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/education/bulletin/launch_to_g29.html
- Mercury trajectory: from http://www.mercurytoday.com/messenger/missiondesign.html
http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/science/jupiter_two.html
- SMART-1 ion engine: from SMART-1: The magic of ion engines,
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEMLB6XO4HD_0.html
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Last updated 6 September 2011
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