Sentence examples for lunar shape from inspiring English sources

And then it takes a few more moments to realise that they obscure a lunar shape behind them.

We predict that more careful examination of both LB patellae may indicate that their curious shape, with two lunar shaped deficits on each supero-lateral aspect, is very similar to that of patellae with unfused epiphyses found both in unaffected human children and in growth-delayed 20 30 year old adult cretins (Figure S7).

Eleven years old when men first landed on the moon, Bird belongs to the generation for whom the lunar module was the shape of things to come.

The large dark patches on the lunar surface that give shape to the moon's "face" are called maria, and they're thought to be the remains of volcanic activity on the moon that started 3.5 billion years ago.

They are thought to be similar to flow channels created by lava flows on Earth, but the shape of these lunar valleys is more meandering, perhaps because ancient lunar lavas were much less viscous than those now known on Earth.

"We call our design language 'double bubble,' " said Mr. Laituri, who came to Polaroid in 1998 from Lunar Design, where he helped shape home computers for Hewlett-Packard.

Now the team can eventually pin down the changing shape of the lunar orbit to the millimeter to help test Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Only in the 20th century did the dominance of impacts in the shaping of the lunar surface become clear.

THE guests at the Upper West Side apartment last Friday were caught up in the plastic gadgets, including a colander shaped like a lunar lander and ventilated containers that are intended to extend the life spans of corn ears.

They rose in the Ohio Valley, where several long-vanished cultures created an architecture of vast geometric shapes, enclosures and a lunar observatory as well as many more modest buildings.

The festivities take place on the 15th day of the first lunar month, with lanterns of all shapes and sizes hung on buildings and streets across the country.