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On a post I reblogged recently about the moons rotation I noticed a lot of people saying it was fake. So here is some really interesting info about Tidal Locking.

"An enduring myth about the Moon is that it doesn't rotate. While it's true that the Moon keeps the same face to us, this only happens because the Moon rotates at the same rate as its orbital motion, a special case of tidal locking called synchronous rotation. The animation shows both the orbit and the rotation of the Moon."

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Tidal Locking

" Earth’s Moon rotates, but it takes precisely as long for the Moon to spin on its axis as it does to complete its monthly orbit around Earth. As a result, the Moon never turns its back to us, like a dancer circling ― but always facing ― its partner.

This phenomenon, called “synchronous tidal locking,” sounds like a weird coincidence ― but it’s actually quite common. All the solar system’s large moons are tidally locked with their planets. The bigger moons synchronize early in their existence, within hundreds of thousands of orbits. Some binary stars are tidally locked to one another, and evidence is building that many planets beyond our solar system are tidally locked with their stars."

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BLOOD VESSELS AND THEIR FUNCTION [1925]

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Jupiter Ascending

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Dance of Light

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Moon Mountain Named After Melba Roy Mouton, NASA Mathematician

Award-winning NASA mathematician and computer programmer Melba Mouton is being honored with the naming of a mountain at the Moon’s South Pole. Mouton joined NASA in 1959, just a year after the space agency was established. She was the leader of a team that coded computer programs to calculate spacecraft trajectories and locations. Her contributions were instrumental to landing the first humans on the Moon.

She also led the group of "human computers," who tracked the Echo satellites. Roy and her team's computations helped produce the orbital element timetables by which millions could view the satellite from Earth as it passed overhead.

The towering lunar landmark now known as “Mons Mouton” stands at a height greater than 19,000 feet. The mountain was created over billions of years by lunar impacts. Huge craters lie around its base—some with cliff-like edges that descend into areas of permanent darkness. Mons Mouton is the future landing site of VIPER, our first robotic Moon rover. The rover will explore the Moon’s surface to help gain a better understanding of the origin of lunar water. Here are things to know:

Mons Mouton is a wide, relatively flat-topped mountain that stretches roughly 2,700 square miles

The mountain is the highest spot at the Moon’s South Pole and can be seen from Earth with a telescope

Our VIPER Moon rover will explore Mons Mouton over the course of its 100-day mission

VIPER will map potential resources which will help inform future landing sites under our Artemis program

The VIPER mission is managed by our Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The approximately 1,000-pound rover will be delivered to the Moon by a commercial vendor as part of our Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, delivering science and technology payloads to and near the Moon.

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yubisaki to renren e10 - oushi's world

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Moser Enameled Cranberry Bohemian Glass Demitasse Cup and Saucer

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Fotografía del Camino de Contreras a los Dinamos en junio de 1931, Cdmx. Mex.

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Botanical artist Kate Kyehyun Park creates art tutorials on how to draw any flower in just 3 simple steps

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Artist: Jess Weymouth

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The solar system’s largest mountain: Olympus mons on Mars.                          

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These beautiful sparkling disco balls are not mushrooms or fungi, though they are found on the forest floor. Lamproderma muscorum is actually a Myxomycetes, or slime mold. Slime molds are usually single-celled organisms but do come together to make reproductive structures when environmental conditions are right. These purple iridescent globes are the reproductive stage of a colony of amoeba that have formed fruiting bodies to produce and disperse spores, which is how slime molds propagate. They are, frankly, one of the prettiest but weirdest lifeforms to exist. Source

Image credit: Sarah.Lloyd.Tasmania/Instagram

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Gravity on different Solar System bodies

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Black market prices for body parts!

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When a 6.8 earthquake hit Olympia, Washington in 2001, a shop owner found that a sand-tracing pendulum recorded the vibrations. (Source)

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A Billion Years Of Tectonic Plate Movement in 40 seconds | source

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Engineering in action | source