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+ | <em>Gargantuan</em> 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 [http://www.dlr.de/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5376/8972_read-16591/ 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 [http://www.gasometer.de/en_GB/index.php?pid=5_1 Oberhausen Gasometer]. <br /> | ||
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+ | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | ||
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+ | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[June 24, 2009|A Really Big Moon]] </p> | ||
+ | <p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[June 26, 2009|Mystery Image]] </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:46, 7 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
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