The Almost Moon

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Over the next twenty-four hours, Helen recalls her: childhood, youth, marriage, and motherhood. Helen's life and the omnipresent relationship with her mother rush in at her as she confronts the choices that have brought her to that crossroads. Partly absent-mindedly, partly desperately she tries to conceal her crime, and in doing so ropes her ex-husband into the conspiracy. Occasionally, the name Luna / ˈ l uː n ə/ is used in scientific writing [25] and especially in science fiction to distinguish the Earth's moon from others, while in poetry "Luna" has been used to denote personification of the Moon. [26] Cynthia / ˈ s ɪ n θ i ə/ is another poetic name, though rare, for the Moon personified as a goddess, [27] while Selene / s ə ˈ l iː n iː/ (literally "Moon") is the Greek goddess of the Moon. As a result, the timing of the tides at most points on the Earth is a product of observations that are explained, incidentally, by theory.

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The Moon reflects light from the Sun and that is why we can see it. It is not a source of light but acts like a mirror. Waning Gibbous: The waning gibbous phase is between a full moon and a half moon. Waning means it is getting smaller. The Moon appears to change shape as we see more or less of it. These shapes are called the phases of the Moon. As the Moon travels around Earth, different parts of it are lit up by the Sun. These changes in the Moon's appearance from our view on Earth are called moon phases. This graphic shows all eight moon phases we see as the Moon makes a complete orbit of Earth about every four weeks. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Is there actually a “dark side" of the Moon?

How does the Moon cause the tides?

The Moon is in geophysical terms a planetary-mass object or satellite planet. It has a mass that amounts to 1.2% of Earth's, and a diameter that is roughly one-quarter of Earth's or with 3,474km (2,159mi) about as wide as Australia. [17] Within the Solar System it is the most massive and largest satellite in relation to its parent planet, the fifth most massive and largest moon overall, and more massive and larger than all known dwarf planets. [18] Its surface gravity is about one sixth of Earth's, about half of that of Mars, and after Jupiter's moon Io the second highest among all Solar System moons. The body of the Moon is differentiated and terrestrial, with no significant hydrosphere, atmosphere, or magnetic field. It formed 4.51billion years ago, not long after Earth's formation, out of the debris from a giant impact between Earth and a hypothesized Mars-sized body called Theia. The prevailing theory is that the Earth–Moon system formed after a giant impact of a Mars-sized body (named Theia) with the proto-Earth. The oblique impact blasted material into orbit about the Earth and the material accreted and formed the Moon [44] [45] just beyond the Earth's Roche limit of ~ 2.56 R 🜨. [46] After the momentous achievement of Apollo 11, landing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon on 20 July 1969, the USA landed five more missions up to 1972. Twelve people in total have walked on the surface of the Moon. During these missions, the astronauts collected samples, conducted science experiments, explored the landscape in a buggy and even played golf.

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The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.”Main article: Volcanism on the Moon The names of the main volcanic features the maria (blue) and some crater (brown) features of the near side of the Moon

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There is no wind or air on the Moon to help “erase” craters, so the surface is covered with the remains of old and new impacts. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA The gravitational pull of the Moon causes the water on the nearest side of Earth to bulge outwards, resulting in a high tide. Curiously, it also causes the water on the other side of the Earth to bulge outwards. There are still many questions left to answer about the Moon. And the most exciting days of lunar activity may still lie ahead as NASA sends humans on the next missions to the Moon and eventually on to Mars! For more information visit: At the North and South Poles the Moon is 24 hours above the horizon for two weeks every tropical month (about 27.3 days), comparable to the polar day of the tropical year. Zooplankton in the Arctic use moonlight when the Sun is below the horizon for months on end. [182]Exhilarating, unforgettable ... This is a remarkable novel in which every word is vital, each nuance felt ... Candid, gut-wrenching, at times horribly funny and often beautifully touching ... The genius which guides The Almost Moon is its absolute, horrible, multiple truths; its staggering clarity' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times Create a list of articles to read later. You will be able to access your list from any article in Discover. The novel stays close to Helen Knightly, its narrator, through each detail of the murder, starting with the senile Clair calling Helen "bitch" and soiling herself. Helen starts to clean her, and then impulsively presses the towel over her face until she suffocates. Helen refers to this as the fulfilment of a lifelong dream. For years, Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now-grown daughters. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Waning Crescent: In the Northern Hemisphere, we see the waning crescent phase as a thin crescent of light on the left.