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            "title": "Supermoon 2013",
            "description": "On June 23, 2013, the Moon will be full at the same time that it is closest to Earth for the year. This coincidence is sometimes called a supermoon.The Moon's orbit is slightly elliptical and therefore a little off-center relative to the Earth. Each month, the Moon passes through points in its orbit called perigee and apogee, the closest and farthest points from the Earth for that month. Some perigees are a little closer than others. The closest perigee for 2013 occurs on June 23 at around 11:18 Universal Time, when the Moon will be 356,991 kilometers (221,824 miles) away. As it happens, this is only a few minutes before the time of peak full Moon at 11:32 UT, when the Moon's ecliptic longitude differs from the Sun's by exactly 180 degrees.How often does this happen? The period between perigees, called the anomalistic month, is 27.55 days. The time between full Moons, called the synodic month, is 29.53 days. These two periods sync up every 413 days, or 1.13 years. 15 anomalistic months are about as long as 14 synodic months. So that's how often the pattern repeats.The animation begins in May, showing that perigee and full Moon miss each other by about a day. It then shows apogee on June 9, when the Moon is almost 32 Earth diameters away. It ends on June 23, the day of the supermoon, when the distance to the Moon is 28 Earth diameters. The Moon graphic in the upper left shows the change in the Moon's apparent size as it moves closer and farther in its orbit. (The relative sizes of the Earth and Moon in the main orbit graphic are exaggerated by a factor of 15 to make them more easily visible.)By another coincidence, the supermoon occurs just two days after the northern summer solstice, when the Sun reaches its highest point in the northern hemisphere sky. The second animation shows the relationship between the Sun and the Earth at both the summer and winter solstice. || ",
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            "release_date": "2012-11-20T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2013",
            "description": " || The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. || moon.0002.jpg (730x730) [94.6 KB] || comp.0001.tif (1920x1080) [2.3 MB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2012-03-15T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hyperwall: Three Moon Sites",
            "description": "Using elevation data returned by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), these hyperwall-resolution animations visit three prominent features on the Moon's near side. || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2012-03-14T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Tour of the Moon: Additional Footage",
            "description": "This is additional footage produced for the narrated version of Tour of the Moon. It supplements the visualizations in entry 3874. || ",
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            "release_date": "2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2012",
            "description": " || The data in the table for the entire year can be downloaded as a JSON file or as a text file. || moon.0001.jpg (730x730) [67.4 KB] || moon.0001.tif (1920x1080) [1.1 MB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2011-10-27T06:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Tour of the Moon",
            "description": "Using elevation and image data returned by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), this animation takes the viewer on a virtual tour of the Moon. The tour visits a number of interesting sites chosen to illustrate a wide variety of lunar terrain features. Some are on the near side and are familiar to both professional and amateur observers on Earth, while others can only be seen clearly from space. Some are large and old (Orientale, South Pole-Aitken), others are smaller and younger (Tycho, Aristarchus). Constantly shadowed areas near the poles are hard to photograph but easier to measure with altimetry, while several of the Apollo landing sites, all relatively near the equator, have been imaged at resolutions as high as 25 centimeters (10 inches) per pixel.The shape of the terrain in this animation is based primarily on data from LRO's laser altimeter (LOLA), supplemented by stereo image data from its wide angle camera (LROC WAC) and from Japan's Kaguya mission. The global surface color is from Clementine. || ",
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            "release_date": "2009-07-16T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Apollo Landing Sites, with Shadows",
            "description": "The six Apollo lunar landing sites are all relatively near the equator on the side of the Moon that faces the Earth. Left behind at each site is the lower half of the Lunar Module, called the descent stage. It carried most of the astronauts' supplies and served as the launchpad for their return trip to the Command and Service Module in orbit around the Moon.LROC, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, will have a number of opportunities to photograph the Apollo landing sites. Despite the excellent half-meter resolution of LROC's narrow angle cameras, the LM descent stage at each site can fill only a few pixels of these images. If photographed when the Sun is low in the lunar sky, however, the long shadow formed by the descent stage is easily discernable.This brief animation shows the locations of the Apollo landing sites, with lengthening shadows as each site approaches lunar nightfall. The lighting simulates the angle of the Sun during the second week of July, 2009, when LROC took its first images of the sites. The gold LM markers are about 20,000 times actual size. || ",
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            "release_date": "1999-07-23T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "False Color Moon Rotation Using Clementine Surface Texture Map",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/679/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "1999-07-23T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Lunar Prospector Crash Site in False Color Rotation with Flip",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/681/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "1999-07-23T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Rotating False Color Moon with Flip Showing the South Pole",
            "description": "False color moon from Lunar Prospector data with flip showing the south pole, site of the Lunar Prospector crash site. (unmarked) || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "1999-07-23T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "False Color Moon Rotation with Flip Showing Crash Site of the Lunar Prospector",
            "description": "False color moon from Lunar Prospector data with flip showing crash site of the Lunar Prospector || ",
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            "release_date": "1999-07-23T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "False Color Moon Rotation with Flip Showing the South Pole",
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