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| + | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[June 24, 2009|A Really Big Moon]] </p> | ||
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Revision as of 23:32, 4 February 2015
The Biggest Moon On Earth
image by German Aerospace Center
Gargantuan might be the best description for a lunar globe 25 m in diameter. Scientists from the German DLR Institute for Planetary Research printed out on fabric 53 giant lunar gores made from Clementine imagery and sewed them together into a sphere. This giant ballon was inflated and suspended inside a unused gas storage container 100 m high. The photos of the stages of construction and inflation show how huge a 25 m Moon is - in fact this is the size of a small Earth-approaching asteroid! This remarkable exhibit is on display until Jan 10, 2010 at the Oberhausen Gasometer.
Chuck Wood
Yesterday's LPOD: A Really Big Moon
Tomorrow's LPOD: Mystery Image
