Two days after it landed on the moon , China's Chang'e-5 mission is on its way again, blasting off back to space, the beginning of its journey back to Earth ferrying a bounty of soil and rocks for scientists to study.
The top half of the lander launched at 10:10 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, according to the China National Space Administration. Footage posted by Chinese state media showed the flash of the spacecraft's engine as it headed to orbit, an ascent that took about six minutes.
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Lunar eclipse will be visible during the full beaver moon on November 30 - CNN
(CNN) Take a break from online holiday shopping to enjoy the full moon and a penumbral lunar eclipse.
Moon Halo Lights Up San Francisco Bay Area Skies – CBS San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A natural phenomenon known as the moon or winter halo lit up the San Francisco Bay Area skies Sunday evening, triggering an avalanche of social media posts and photos.
Researchers say the display is a ring with an apparent radius of approximately 22° around the moon and is formed as direct sunlight or moonlight is refracted in millions of hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
It occurs several times a year, Sunday night’s moon was particularly stunning. It was not only seen in the Bay Area skies, but across the country.
You need to see the Full Beaver Moon tonight
CELESTIAL OBJECTS COME AND GO FROM THE NIGHT SKY . Whether it be the Full Moon, a meteor shower, or just the best night to see Mars, we're here to direct your eyes skyward and tell you to look up and appreciate the wonders of space from Earth.
This week, we're asking you to marvel at the Beaver Full Moon as it appears opposite of the Sun, shining at its brightest in the night sky.
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November's Full Moon is supposedly called the Beaver Moon because it falls around the same time of year when beavers begin to take shelter in their lodges and hibernate for the winter ahead by storing lots of food.
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That's the classic 22 degree lunar halo caused by refractive ice crystals high in our atmosphere.
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I've always associated that with incoming rain... days or a week out depending on how far out the ring is.
The lunar halo is always 22 degrees in radius. There is a very rare 46 degree halo that may appear around the Sun.
Farmer's Almanac used this to predict rain.
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/ring-around-the-moon-9657
NASA selects four companies for moon material collection as it seeks to set precedent on private
The winning bids were evaluated based on two simple criteria: Basically, were they technically feasible, and how much did they cost. There were four winners, each with a different ride out, which will seek to satisfy the conditions of NASA’s request, which is basically to collect a lunar regolith (essentially what we call “soil” on the moon) in an amount ranging from between 50 grams to 500 grams, with retrieval to be handled separately by NASA at a later date.
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The agency received 22 proposals in total, between 16 and 17 companies. This was intentionally designed to help NASA demonstrate the advantages of its public-private partnerships approach, and to set precedents about how resource material collection can happen on extra-terrestrial bodies like the moon.
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Chinese spacecraft lands on moon to bring rocks back to Earth - Portland Press Herald
BEIJING — A Chinese spacecraft landed on the moon to bring back lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s, the government announced.
The China National Space Administration said Chang'e 5 "successfully landed" at its designated site shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday after making a powered descent from its orbiter. It published images of the barren scene at the landing site, including where the lander’s shadow can be seen.
The lander was launched Nov. 24 from the tropical southern island of Hainan. It is the latest venture by a Chinese space program that sent its first astronaut into orbit in 2003, has a spacecraft en route to Mars and aims eventually to land a human on the moon.
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China's Chang'e-5 mission sends back its first colour photos from surface of the Moon 🌕 https://t.co/rDCOcP5T7N BBCWorld (from London, UK) Wed Dec 02 15:23:07 +0000 2020
China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon – the first mission to collect lunar surface samples in 40 years… https://t.co/kVczCWcUA1 AJEnglish (from Doha, Qatar) Wed Dec 02 02:30:06 +0000 2020
China lands on the Moon in the world's first mission to take samples in 40 years https://t.co/SHmgaED02h business (from New York and the World) Wed Dec 02 04:19:04 +0000 2020
China has successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon's surface, in a historic mission for the country t… https://t.co/NXRU5VDoZo Reuters (from Around the world) Thu Dec 03 04:00:00 +0000 2020
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