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Aprils full moon will reach peak illumination at 7:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, but it will appear full from Monday through Thursday morning, according to NASA. The Old Farmer's Almanac details specific moonrise times for different ZIP codes across the U.S.

Full moon names often come from seasons, historical crops and the behavior of certain animals. The "Pink Moon" moniker unfortunately has nothing to do with the moon's color, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac. Instead, it's connected to the early springtime bloom of certain wildflowers, including one native to eastern North America often called "moss pink."

April's full moon goes by several other names, too, including Breaking Ice Moon, Moon When the Streams are Again Navigable, Budding Moon of Plants and Shrubs and Moon of the Red Grass Appearing. It also has several names connected to animals, including Moon When the Ducks Come Back, Moon When the Geese Lay Eggs, Frog Moon and Sucker Moon.

The Apollo 11 mission was an important event for the United States and the world. Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder of the lunar module and onto the surface of the moon. They took the first steps of any woman or man on this surface.

Overall, there was a lot of excitement about landing on the moon. And while what was happening was discussed on the local news, it was fun for people to see for themselves. It was also helpful for NASA scientists to be able to see what was happening in addition to using radio communication.

To achieve this, the Apollo 11 mission included a camera on the mission so that both NASA and the world could see the crew as they prepared for the moon landing, and the landing itself. Three total transmissions were made between the ship and Earth to share the journey.

This footage was sent down to Earth and received by 3 places on the planet. These included Parkes Observatory and Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia, and the Goldstone Tracking Station in California. These signals were then converted so that they could be seen by the world on the TVs in their homes. This conversion was necessary due to the type of equipment that the Apollo crew needed to use while in space.

A small percentage of people do not believe that NASA ever led a mission where astronauts landed on the moon. There are many arguments for why they believe the landing was fake and that the media coverage was created using props on Earth. To date, all of the arguments supporting this belief have been disproven.

The first claim is that the flag on the moon appears to be waving. Given that there is no wind on the moon, it is argued that the flag must then have been on Earth and not on the Moon. However, the way the flag was positioned was due to how it was set up. The flag had a vertical pole, which held it upright in a similar way to flagpoles that we see here on Earth. But this pole had a second portion that went horizontally (making a 90 degree angle at the top of the pole), which was meant to hold the flag out. This portion malfunctioned and did not come out all the way. Because the material of the flag was not pulled tight, it had creases in it that made it appear to be waving.

The answer to this claim is that you can see stars on the surface of the moon. But you are unable to see them in the photos due to the settings on the camera. The sun generates a bright light on the surface of the moon, and so the camera had to be set to capture images in this very bright setting. The exposure time was set to be fast, and the aperture was set to be more closed, sort of like when you squint your eyes to see better outside on a sunny day. These settings on the camera actually cause the stars to not be recorded.

If you happen to find a very dark spot on Earth, you could test this for yourself. If you use the same camera settings, you would find that when you took a picture of the landscape, the stars would be visible to the eye, but not present on the captured image.

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SLIM (short for "Smart Lander for Investigating Moon") is scheduled to begin its touchdown operations Friday at 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT; midnight on Jan. 20 Japan time), with a soft landing on the moon occurring 20 minutes later, if all goes according to plan.

SLIM launched atop a Japanese H-2A rocket on Sept. 6 of last year. The moon probe shared that ride with an X-ray space telescope called XRISM, which was deployed into low Earth orbit shortly after launch and recently beamed home its first test photos after a successful checkout period.

SLIM took a long and energy-efficient path to the moon, eventually arriving in orbit around Earth's nearest neighbor on Christmas Day. The spacecraft then spent three weeks prepping for landing day, which has now nearly arrived.

If all goes according to plan on Friday, SLIM will land within 330 feet (100 meters) of a target spot on the rim of the moon's Shioli Crater. The goal is to demonstrate the technology needed to make such pinpoint touchdowns.

"SLIM's mission architecture hopes to shift the standards of lunar landing missions, from touching down where it's easy to setting down exactly where desired," the nonprofit Planetary Society wrote in a mission description.

SLIM won't be making Japan's first lunar touchdown try. A tiny lander called OMOTENASHI launched toward the moon as part of NASA's uncrewed Artemis 1 mission in November 2022, but the little Japanese probe didn't reach its destination. And last April, the Hakuto-R spacecraft, built by Tokyo-based company ispace, crashed during its landing attempt after its sensors got confused by the moon's rough topography.

Another private moonshot, this one American, went awry recently as well: Astrobotic's Peregrine lander suffered a fuel leak shortly after its Jan. 8 launch, scuttling a landing attempt that was targeted for mid-February. Peregrine made it out to lunar distance despite that issue, then looped back toward Earth. It's scheduled to collide with our planet on Thursday afternoon (Jan. 18) over the South Pacific.

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Among the many challenges of the Apollo 11 Moon mission, was the development of a colour TV broadcasting system that was light enough to transport and capable of transmitting live images over 200,000 miles [322,000 km] back from the Moon. Electronic colour television cameras of the time were far too complex, big and heavy to be carried in the lunar module.

Engineers reverted to using an earlier mechanical system to produce a small, low power, robust camera. This mechanical system used Scottish innovator John Logie Baird's 'colour field sequential' technology which he first developed in 1928.

The solution relied on a small disk rotating ten times a second to scan images through red, green and blue filters. The transmission signal to Earth only carries the three sets of black and white images plus a synchronising pulse.

The three separate broadcast transmissions were recombined at Mission Control, Cape Canaveral using a matching set of colour filters to produce one colour image before being converted to an electronic signal which was beamed to televisions around the world.

Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon were beamed back from a low resolution black and white television camera. That camera remains on the Moon where Armstrong left it, to allow the astronauts to bring back extra Moon rock.

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. These photographs were taken by astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, with a 70mm lunar surface camera.

This is the official crew portrait of the Apollo 11 astronauts. Pictured from left to right are: Neil A. Armstrong, Commander; Michael Collins, Module Pilot; Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Lunar Module Pilot.

Launched aboard the Saturn V launch vehicle (SA-506), the three astronauts began their journey to the moon with liftoff from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 8:32 am CDT, July 16, 1969.

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera.

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