Sentence examples for lunar interior from inspiring English sources

Seismic observations have made it possible to probe the lunar interior.

Most of the knowledge about the lunar interior has come from the Apollo missions and from robotic spacecraft, including Galileo, Clementine, and Lunar Prospector, which observed the Moon in the 1990s.

Dr. Williams said hints of a sizable molten lunar interior had been suggested independently by NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft, which cost $63 million and recently mapped the Moon's gravity field.

Meanwhile, the long-since-discarded S IVB third stage crashed onto the Moon it had followed an independent trajectory as part of a planned experiment to cause an artificial moonquake to aid scientists in understanding the nature of the lunar interior.

"Lunar interior models may need to become more complex," the team concluded in a March presentation to the Lunar and Planetary Science conference, an annual meeting sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

Pinned between the parched, lunar interior of the clinic and the ocean, whose cool, blue promise conceals an army of jellyfish (known portentously as Medusas), Sofia is forced to stand still and take stock; to interrogate her codependent relationship with her mother and consider how to move forwards.

The prefab lunar interiors have the molded plastic look of a backlot, like the 1990 "Total Recall" or the Universal CityWalk mall in Burbank, whichever is tackier.

Lunar rotation depends on interior properties; a fluid core is indicated with radius ∼20% that of the Moon.

With regard to lunar missions, exterior and interior transfers, based on the transit through the regions where the collinear libration points L1 and L2 are located, have been studied for a long time and some space missions have already taken advantage of the results of these studies.

For the Balenciaga store, farther west on Melrose, Kameon went to the fashion house's Web site, where a description of the store's interior as a "lunar landscape" captivated her.

Each of these processes has the potential to produce reduced iron nanoparticles (npFe0), which can be formed through vapor or sputter deposition onto the rims of surface grains and also as interior particles in lunar agglutinate glass grains.