NASA Ames LADEE Mission Animation: Science Collection / Orbital Variation / Lunar Atmosphere

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NASA Ames' Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust. LADEE is scheduled to launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sept. 6, 2013.

This animation contains three shots:

1) A close up view of the Lunar Dust Experiment (LDEX) instrument. LDEX operates by detecting the ions generated when tiny particles of dust impact the back of the instrument at extremely high speed. The data collected will be used to calculate the mass, density, speed and electric charge of the lunar dust.

2) The variations in the orbital path flown by LADEE. The high point of the LADEE's orbit will vary between 100 and 160 kilometers, while the low point will vary between 50 and 20km above the surface of the moon.

3) A representation of the light from the sun scattering through the lunar atmosphere as LADEE flies past at sunset.

Credit: NASA Ames/Dana Berry
Note: Animation is silent with no audio/music track included.

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Actually, both Neil Armstrong AND Buzz Aldrin were able to see stars during the lunar mission. The only reason you couldn't see them in the pictures is because the camera exposure was too short.

The spacesuits were designed to work in vacuum, which is basically what it is like on the moon. There is an extremely thin atmosphere though, which is what LADEE is going to research. We didn't need to know about it for the Apollo missions because it was so thin that it didn't make any difference.

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Can we finally see the dark side of the moon?

hrpgn

This video doesn't make sense. Apollo astronauts told you very clearly that it stars are not visible.
The mission doesn't make sense. You went to the moon 6 times and you don't know what the atmosphere of the moon is like? How did you design the suit then?

edwardtang

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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