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My understanding was that those variations in gravity ("mascons") rendered stable lunar orbits next to impossible. On Apollo missions, orbits degraded by many k
by kabdib 3y ago
My understanding was that those variations in gravity ("mascons") rendered stable lunar orbits next to impossible. On Apollo missions, orbits degraded by many kilometers over the course of just a few days.
- neffo 3y agoInterestingly, a researcher looking for probable impact sites found Apollo 11's ascent module could potentially still be in orbit. (Though, it's probably not.) https://phys.org/news/2021-07-apollo-ascent-stage-orbiting-moon.html https://phys.org/news/2021-07-apollo-ascent-stage-orbiting-m...