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 ====== NASA Image of the Day ======
-Date: **Sun 28th June, 2020**\\
+Date: **Sun 2nd June, 2024**\\
-Title: **Europa and Jupiter from Voyager 1**
+Title: **Rotating Moon from LRO**
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-What are those spots on Jupiter? Largest and furthest, just right of center, is the Great Red Spot -- a huge storm system that has been raging on Jupiter possibly since Giovanni Cassini's likely notation of it 355 years ago.
+No one, presently, sees the Moon rotate like this. That's because the Earth's moon is tidally locked to the Earth, showing us only one side.
-It is not yet known why this Great Spot is red. The spot toward the lower left is one of Jupiter's largest moons: Europa. Images from Voyager in 1979 bolster the modern hypothesis that Europa has an underground ocean and is therefore a good place to look for extraterrestrial life. But what about the dark spot on the upper right? That is a shadow of another of Jupiter's large moons: Io. Voyager 1 discovered Io to be so volcanic that no impact craters could be found.
+Given modern digital technology, however, combined with many detailed images returned by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a high resolution virtual Moon rotation movie has been composed. The featured time-lapse video starts with the standard Earth view of the Moon. Quickly, though, Mare Orientale, a large crater with a dark center that is difficult to see from the Earth, rotates into view just below the equator.
-Sixteen frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979 were recently reprocessed and merged to create the featured image.
+From an entire lunar month condensed into 24 seconds, the video clearly shows that the Earth side of the Moon contains an abundance of dark lunar maria, while the lunar far side is dominated by bright lunar highlands. Currently, over 32 new missions to the Moon are under active development from multiple countries and companies, including NASA's Artemis program which aims to land people on the Moon again within the next few years.
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-About 43 years ago, Voyager 1 launched from Earth and started one of the greatest explorations of the Solar System ever.
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-Free Download: Voyager Posters
-[[https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2006/EuropaJupiter_Voyager_2792.jpg|{{https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2006/EuropaJupiter_Voyager_960.jpg?800|Click image to enlarge}}]]
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