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The discovery of the monsoons. The term “monsoon ” appeared in French at the beginning of the 17th century, from the Dutch “monssoen ” or the Portuguese “ monçao ”, terms that these navigating nations had borrowed from the Arabic “mausim ” designating the season of winds favourable to navigation towards India.
1 de ago. de 2023 · The discovery of Uranus' rings occurred through observations made from the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. On the lefthand side of this display case from the Museum's exhibition Exploring the Planets is a letter from Jim Elliot to the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) reporting the discovery of rings around the planet Uranus.
The discovery of Ganymede and Jupiter’s three other largest moons – Europa, Io, and Callisto – forever changed the way we view our solar system. On Jan. 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was looking at Jupiter through his homemade telescope when he spotted what he thought were three small, bright stars near Jupiter. Soon, […]
The discovery of fault scarp cliffs suggest that the Moon has shrunk by about 90 metres (300 ft) within the past billion years. Similar shrinkage features exist on Mercury. Mare Frigoris, a basin near the north pole long assumed to be geologically dead, has cracked and shifted.
The discovery of a rock called anorthosite showed that the moon had once been the site of very complex geological processes, not always the “magnificent desolation” that Buzz Aldrin described. 4.4-billion-year-old anorthosite rock sample collected from the lunar highlands of the moon by Apollo 16 astronauts.
The physical exploration of the Moon began when Luna 2, a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made a deliberate impact on the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. Prior to that the only available means of exploration had been observation from Earth. The invention of the optical telescope brought about the first leap in the quality ...
Chandrayaan-1 was India's first deep space mission. Among its suite of instruments, it carried NASA's Moon Minerology Mapper (M3), an imaging spectrometer helped confirm the discovery of water locked in minerals on the Moon. THe orbiter also released an impactor that was deliberately crashed into the Moon, releasing debris that was anyalyzed by ...
