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NASA Lunar Mission Enters the Moon Successfully

June 26th, 2009

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft’s lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT July23,2009-Tuesday.
During transit to the moon, engineers performed a mid-course correction to get the spacecraft in the proper position to reach its lunar destination. [...]

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The Moon

June 4th, 2009

The Moon has fascinated mankind throughout the ages. One can discern two major types of terrain: relatively bright highlands and darker plains by simply viewing through the naked eye. By the middle of the 17th century, Galileo and other early astronomers made telescopic observations, noting an almost endless overlapping [...]

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Full Moon Calendar Dates

March 11th, 2009

Moon Phases Calendar - Full Moon Dates
You can find below the Next Full Moons Calendar for the next years.
The time is in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
If your local time zone is currently on Daylight Saving time, please add one hour to the standard times listed in the Moon phases tables.

Full Moon dates 2004

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