Sentence examples for direction of the moon from inspiring English sources

We simply followed the direction of the moon," says Mr Mykulaichuk.

There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.

The X-axis is taken positive approximately toward the Mean Earth, and the Z-axis is taken positive approximately toward the mean rotation-axis direction of the Moon.

Gravity's strength decreases with distance, so the moon pulls on the side of the Earth closer to it a bit more vigorously than the side farther from it, and as a result, Earth elongates ever so slightly in the direction of the moon.

"Once we calculated the compass direction of the moon and compared that to the detailed battle maps published by Robert Krick, it quickly became obvious how Stonewall Jackson would have been seen as a dark silhouette, from the point of view of the 18th North Carolina regiment," Olson said.

Approximately 6 min before the closest approach, the electron spectrometer (ELS), part of the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) detected a field-aligned electron population originating from the direction of the moon's surface.

The Tibet air shower array has been continuing the observation of the shadow that cosmic rays make in the direction of the sun or the moon since 1991.

We alone were reaping the rewards of some Parks Department architects' error, a grave miscalculation of how high a given tennis ball hit at such-and-such miles an hour could go, with the wind gusts in some such direction, and the phase of the moon on a particular Wednesday in autumn in Brooklyn.

The expanded surface coverage provided by Cassini has allowed for the identification of additional regions of smooth plains, particularly on Enceladus's leading hemisphere (the side of Enceladus that faces the direction of motion as the moon orbits Saturn).

The Apache exhibition includes a medicine pouch, decorated with symbols of the four directions and the moon, which was used by Geronimo around 1875, and a bow, quiver and arrows from about 1880.

I stopped at a place where the path went off in three directions and sat in the light of the moon.