Sentence examples for Full lunar from inspiring English sources

The Chinese calendar is basically lunar, its year consisting of 12 months of alternately 29 and 30 days, equal to 354 days, or approximately 12 full lunar cycles.

It was early March: I had chosen this day months before for its full moon, enchanted by the notion that it would also be a full lunar eclipse.

The Egyptian lunar calendar, the older of the two systems, consisted of twelve months whose duration differed according to the length of a full lunar cycle (normally 28 or 29 days).

Flight controllers confirmed Friday that the orbiting spacecraft crashed into the back side of the moon as planned, just three days after surviving a full lunar eclipse, something it was never designed to do.

To understand what they mean, first you must understand something called the "blood moon," defined as a full lunar eclipse that makes the moon glow like a jack-o-lantern.

In the following decades, other probes followed up with detailed topographical and gravimetric mapping of the full lunar surface, but no craft has landed on the far side until now.

"They'd be like the Mars rovers, doing their own thing". The basic idea would be for the elevator to lift carts full of lunar "regolith" -- the coarse lunar sand in which Neil Armstrong left his footprints 35 years ago -- upward to be ferried into Earth orbit for use as cheap radiation insulation in spaceships, space hotels and space stations.

Naming his technique Superadobe, Khalili suggested that astronauts carry up empty sacks, pack them full of lunar dust and then Velcro them together into a climbing, narrowing spiral.

The deadline for a team to make an attempt to win the full $20m Lunar X prize has been set for December 2012.

To get ready for a full launch, Lunar Way is disclosing €4.2 million in new funding.

This full total lunar eclipse will be visible in North and South America, parts of Europe, northern and western Africa, Iceland, the Arctic region, and Greenland.