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Chang'e 6's samples from the lunar far side contain a record of ancient volcanism, magnetism and a mantle depleted in ...
With much of The Far Side's comedy being pulled from Gary Larson's real life, his love of butterflies has been used for many hilarious cartoons.
Nostalgic cartoon fans rejoice! After a quarter-century hiatus, reclusive cartoonist Gary Larson has returned to penning his hilarious “The Far Side” series with three new digitally-drawn ...
China landed the first ever spacecraft on the far side of the moon. This is what researchers are hoping to learn from the moon's so-called dark side. Putin stalls. Trump changes his mind.
Nearly 25 years ago, when Gary Larson retired from drawing his iconic single-panel cartoon that ran daily in newspapers from 1980 to 1995, he didn’t think much about what the budding internet ...
The moon itself blocks communication between mission controllers on Earth and the far side. But in 2018, China put a communication relay satellite in space about 40,000 miles beyond the moon that ...
There’s no real “dark side” of the moon, but the far side, which faces away from Earth, is different from the near side we see every day. Samples could reveal why.
The Chang'e-4 spacecraft became the first to visit the moon's far side in 2019. The moon's far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side's flat, dark plains carved by lava flows.
The moon takes the same amount of time to orbit around our planet as it does to rotate around its axis, which means that from Earth we can only ever see the same side of the moon.
Rejoice, cartoon fans. The Far Side is no longer quite so far out of reach.. Though he’s previously resisted efforts to have his beloved comic strip — famed for its deadpan humor and ...
Often referred to as the dark side of the moon, it's about time we went back — according to NASA's lunar astronauts and planetary scientists.
The Sun shining on the far side of the Moon was picked up by the photocell on the upper end of the spacecraft, which started the photography sequence. The first image was taken 39,457 miles from ...