Lunar swirls are enigmatic features found across the Moon's surface, which are characterized by having a high albedo, appearing optically immature (i.e...

computed from models based solely on direct micrometeorite impacts. Lunar swirls are enigmatic features found across the Moon's surface. They are characterized...

the Lunar Atmosphere above Swirls (BOLAS) is a spacecraft mission concept that would orbit the Moon at very low altitude in order to study the lunar surface...

as a lunar swirl. It is one of the most visible lunar swirls from Earth, visible from most telescopes. It was originally thought to be a lunar highland...

which are not associated with topographic or volcanic features. The lunar swirls are believed to be associated with magnetic fields. Prior to formal naming...

2023–2024 timeframe. Lunar Vertex: a joint lander and rover payload suite slated for delivery to Reiner Gamma to investigate lunar swirls. Applied Physics...

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and Goddard to the northwest. The surface of this mare displays some lunar swirls; higher albedo deposits that are similar to the Reiner Gamma feature...

electrostatic levitation) Lunar swirls Observing the Moon Project A119 Project Moon-Blink, a 1960s NASA investigation into transient lunar phenomena Selenography...

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of the asteroid was not made due to a malfunction in the spacecraft. The lunar observations included imaging at various wavelengths in the visible as well...

surrounding landscape, which is what is seen as lunar swirls. By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of...

The last entry is L100, the magnetic swirls of Marginis Sea. Wood, Charles A. (27 November 2012). "The Lunar 100". Sky & Telescope. Retrieved 26 February...

Moon rock or lunar rock is rock originating from Earth's Moon. This includes lunar material collected during the course of human exploration of the Moon...

A moonbase, lunar base, or lunar colony is a facility on or below the surface of the Moon, enabling human activity on the Moon. As such, it is different...

robotic lunar sample-return of the youngest mare basalts. NanoSWARM, a lunar orbiter to investigate lunar swirls, space weathering, lunar water, lunar magnetism...

궤도선·2030년 달 착륙…7대 우주강국 도약". 18 May 2021. Bi-Sat Observations of the Lunar Atmosphere Above Swirls (BOLAS): Tethered SmallSat Investigation of Hydration and Space...

Charlie Brown Apollo Lunar Module Snoopy about to dock with the command module Necho crater on the far side of the Moon High-albedo swirls within unnamed crater...

process other than a large, molten metal core. This may be the source of lunar swirls, not seen on Earth. Apart from their distance to the Sun, different bodies...

expected launch date is in early 2025. The landing site is Reiner Gamma, a lunar swirl on the western edge of the Moon, as seen from Earth. This experiment...

The Intuitive Machines Nova-C, or simply Nova-C, is a class of lunar landers designed by Intuitive Machines (IM) to deliver small payloads to the surface...

known as a Lunar Swirl. These features are associated with localised magnetic anomalies, as is the case with Leibnitz. The Leibnitz Swirls are part of...

center and high-albedo swirls in middle foreground, from Apollo 11 Oblique view facing southwest, from Apollo 16 High-albedo swirls east of Firsov, from...

A grazing lunar occultation (also lunar grazing occultation, lunar graze, or just graze) is a lunar occultation in which as the occulted star disappears...

Buisson is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It is named after the French physicist Henri Buisson. Nearly attached to...

The Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) was a 2007–2018 inducement prize space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. The challenge...

appearance of the dark areas (known as lunar maria) and the lighter-colored highlands (and some lowlands) of the lunar surface. There are various explanations...

excavate low albedo material, for example basaltic-lava deposits on the lunar maria. Thermal rays, as seen on Mars, are especially apparent at night when...

weathering. This is similar to the process causing Reiner Gamma and other bright swirls such as those of Mare Marginis and Mare Ingenii. About 50 kilometers to...

Boyd, D. T. Blewett, R. L. Klima (2016) The distribution and extent of lunar swirls, Icarus, 273, 53–67, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2016.01.017. Denevi, B. W....