Tuesday, March 06, 2012

"Good Night, Moon"

The waxing gibbous, 


12.3 day old moon, 


93.4% of Full
      2.1 days until full moon
The Moon for Mar 05, 2012 at Midnight

See, it is a moon race now.

CHINA will launch (click title to entry - thank you) its third lunar probe, the Chang'e-3, next year to land on the moonand release the country's first moon rover to patrol the lunar surface.

The Chang'e-3 will be the first Chinese space probe to have legs to ensure a softlanding on moon, according to Ye Peijian, chief designer of the Chang'e-1, thecountry's first moon probe, and chief commander of the Chang'e-2 and Chang'e-3missions.

"The probe will take more scientific equipment than its predecessors mainly to detect,collect and analyze samples on the moon," Ye said yesterday....