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For a handful of minutes, the skies will darken Monday in a total solar eclipse where the sun’s rays will be completely blocked by the moon’s orbit — something Hoosiers can only view with special glasses, but more on that later. Our sister outlet, the Kansas Reflector, compiled its own questions and answers for their […] ....
Moon Ping NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully bounced a laser off of India's Vikram lander, which successfully touched down on the Moon's surface in August. The LRO's laser altimeter aimed its sights at Vikram in December some 62 miles away near the Moon's South Pole, shooting it with a series of laser pulses. […] ....
It was launched by Russia s space agency Roscosmos on August 11 via a Soyuz 2.1B rocket from Vostoni Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast. This place is about 5,550 km east of Moscow. ....