The Moon And The Magnetotail

SPX ^ | 21 Apr 08 | Dr. Tony Phillips

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Swordmaker.

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[dangus]

The dark side of the moon is dark in the sense that Africa was the dark continent, that dark matter is dark, and that black boxes are black:

It is unseen. The moon’s rotational period is equal to its orbital period, so the same side faces the Earth.

OF course, there’s also a dark side in the sense of day and nigh, also/... and the moon’s days are 29 times longer than ours!

[RightWhale]

NASA has known about this for a long time.

http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=129366

NASA/JSC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Lunar Habitat Mockup. The contractor shall fabricate a man-rated, electrically conductive habitat mockup for NASA Johnson Space Center. The mockup will be used to evaluate candidate RF Wireless and RFID technology for use on ISS or other Constellation modules.