Sentence examples for lunar features from inspiring English sources
Telescopic observers beginning in the 19th century applied the term rille to several types of trenchlike lunar features.
The region around Aristarchus shows a number of peculiar lunar features, some of which have origins not yet well explained.
The term was introduced by early telescopic observers probably the German astronomer Johann Schröter about 1800 to denote such lunar features.
Because all lunar features are covered by impact debris and no mission has yet visited the interior subsurface of a rille, the true origin of Hadley Rille and other sinuous rilles remains to be elucidated.
The impact locale of Ranger 7 was named Mare Cognitum for the new knowledge gained, a major example of which was the discovery that even small lunar features have been mostly subdued from incessant meteorite impacts.
1950-57 Theofies of Moon's formation are incorporated in efforts to explain origin of solar system; radiometric age dating is employed in meteorite research; lunar subsurface temperatures are measured by microwave radiometry; relative ages of lunar features are derived from principles of stratigraphy (study of rock layers and their chronological relationship).
The region of the Aristarchus plateau has been the site of many reported transient lunar phenomena, with a total of 122 such reports by 2007; the highest recorded for any lunar feature.
The amorphous islands are similar to lunar glass features that have been attributed to micrometeorite impact events (Keller and McKay 1997).
This phenomenon indicates that current orbit determination results of CE-2 cannot truly reflect the relative position relationship between probe and lunar surface features.
The main lunar gravity features are mascons, large positive gravitational anomalies associated with some of the giant impact basins, partly caused by the dense mare basaltic lava flows that fill these basins.
There is a great lunar-phase feature, in case you like to garden in sync with the moon.
