Difference between revisions of "June 25, 2009"
| Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
=The Biggest Moon On Earth= | =The Biggest Moon On Earth= | ||
| − | + | <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:2:<h1> --> | |
<!-- ws:start:WikiTextLocalImageRule:8:<img src="/file/view/LPOD-June25-09.jpg/79344817/LPOD-June25-09.jpg" alt="" title="" style="width: 900px;" /> -->[[File:LPOD-June25-09.jpg|LPOD-June25-09.jpg]]<!-- ws:end:WikiTextLocalImageRule:8 --><br /> | <!-- ws:start:WikiTextLocalImageRule:8:<img src="/file/view/LPOD-June25-09.jpg/79344817/LPOD-June25-09.jpg" alt="" title="" style="width: 900px;" /> -->[[File:LPOD-June25-09.jpg|LPOD-June25-09.jpg]]<!-- ws:end:WikiTextLocalImageRule:8 --><br /> | ||
<em>image by [http://www.dlr.de/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5376/8972_read-16591/ German Aerospace Center]</em><br /> | <em>image by [http://www.dlr.de/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5376/8972_read-16591/ German Aerospace Center]</em><br /> | ||
| Line 11: | Line 11: | ||
<br /> | <br /> | ||
<hr /> | <hr /> | ||
| − | |||
| − | |||
| − | |||
| − | |||
Revision as of 23:46, 2 January 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
