PIX4614799: Eclipse de Lune - 28/09/2015 - Lunar eclipse September 28 2015: The main phases of the eclipse of the Moon of 28 September 2015 seen above Gollenstein, the largest menhir in Central Europe - Multi exposures of total lunar eclipse on september 28 2015, seen above Gollenstein, the tallest menhir of central Europe / Bridgeman Images
PIX4597811: Apollo 17: the LEM on the Moon - Apollo 17: lunar module - The lunar module. Astronaut Eugene Cernan is partially visible behind the Lem. Mission Apollo 17. 12 December 1972. Panorama showing the LM on the landing site. The astronaut Eugene Cernan is partially visible behind the LM. December 12, 1972 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4597889: Apollo 17: E. Cernan on the Moon - Apollo 17: E. Cernan drives the LRV - Eugene Cernan tests the lunar jeep. 11 December 1972. Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan is seen test driving the “” stripped down”” Lunar Rover Vehicle (LRV) prior to loading the LRV up. Equipment later loaded onto the LRV included the ground controlled television assembly, the lunar communications relay unit, the hi - gain antenna, the low - gain antenna, aft tool pallet, and lunar tools and scientific gear. 11 December 197 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4598061: Apollo 17: Lunar Jeep on the Moon - Apollo 17: Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon - Lunar Jeep (LRV) parking near a big rock. 13/12/1972. This view shows the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) parked by an outcrop of rocks by astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt during their visit to extravehicular activity Station 6 (Henry Crater). Dec 13 197 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4598086: Apollo 17: H. Schmitt on the Moon - Apollo 17: H. Schmitt retrieving lunar samples - Harrison Schmitt collecting samples. 11/12/1972. Panorama. Scientist - astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, collects lunar rake samples at Station 1 during the first Apollo 17 Extrahicular Activity (EVA - 1) at the Taurus - Littrow landing site. This panorama was taken by astronaut Eugene Cernan, commander. The lunar rake, an Apollo lunar geology hand tool, is used to collect discrete samples of rocks and rock chips ranging in size from one - half inch (1.3 centimeter) to one inch (2.5 centimeter). 11 December 1972 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4598144: Apollo 17: Lunar Jeep - Apollo 17: Lunar Rover Vehicle - Mudguard at the rear of the jeep. 12/12/1972. A close - up view of the lunar roving vehicle (LRV) at the Taurus - Littrow landing site photographed during Apollo 17 lunar surface extravehicular activity. Note the makeshift repair arrangement on the right rear fender of the LRV. During EVA - 1 a hammer got underneath the fender and a part of it was knocked off. Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt were reporting a problem with lunar dust because of the damage fender. Following a suggestion from astronaut John W. Young in the Mission Control Center at Houston the crewmen repaired the fender early in EVA - 2 using lunar maps and clamps from the optical alignment telescope lamp. Schmitt is seated in the rover. Cernan took this picture. 12 Dec 1972 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4598153: Apollo 17: orange soil on the Moon - Apollo 17: the orange soil - View of orange soil, rich in zinc, probably of volcanic origin. Station 4, near the Shorty Crater. 12/12/1972. A view of the area at Station 4 (Shorty Crater) showing the now highly - publicized orange soil which the Apollo 17 crew members found on the moon during the second Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus - Littrow landing site. The tripod - like object is the gnomon and photometric chart assembly which is used as a photographic reference to establish local vertical sun angle, scale and lunar color. The gnomon is one of the Apollo lunar geology hand tools. While astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, commander, and Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module (LM) “” Challenger”” to explore the Taurus - Littrow region of the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) “” America”” in lunar orbit. Schmitt was the crew man who first spotted the orange soil. 12 Dec 1972 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4598162: Apollo 17: H.Schmitt on the Moon - Apollo 17: Harrison Schmitt and the US flag - Harrison Schmitt near the American flag. Land visible above the flag. 11/12/1972. The photo was taken at the Taurus - Littrow landing site. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet earth in the distant background / Bridgeman Images
PIX4602972: ATV Johannes Kepler - The Johannes Kepler automatic module seen from the International Space Station (ISS). ATV Johannes Kepler, intended to supply the station with various equipment, docked at the station on 24 February 2011. Backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the European Space Agency's “Johannes Kepler” Automated Transfer Vehicle - 2 (ATV - 2) approaches the International Space Station. Docking of the two spacecraft occurred at 10:59 a.m. (EST) on Feb. 24, 2011. A crescent moon is visible at upper right / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606120: Probe Luna 16 - Luna 16 lifts off - Luna 16 was the first sovietic probe to land on the Moon, take samples of lunar soil and bring them back to Earth. This mission took place from 12 to 24 September 1970. The automated Soviet Luna 16 probe's upper stage blasts off with 100 grams of precious lunar soil that will be studied by Soviet scientists on Earth.This space probe successfully completed an Earth - Moon - Earth mission from September 12, 1970 to September 24, 1970 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606136: LRO Probe - Artist View - LRO - Artist view - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a space probe of NASA that will be put into orbit around the Moon in order to map it and identify potential landing sites for sending a human crew around 2020. LRO is expected to be launched in June 2009 with LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite). Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in Moon orbit. LRO objectives are to find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology to prepare future human exploration of the Moon. It should be launched in June 2009 with LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) payload aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606147: LRO Probe - Artist View - LRO - Artist view - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a space probe of NASA that will be put into orbit around the Moon in order to map it and identify potential landing sites for sending a human crew around 2020. LRO is expected to be launched in June 2009 with LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite). Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in Moon orbit. LRO objectives are to find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology to prepare future human exploration of the Moon. It should be launched in June 2009 with LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) payload aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606152: LCROSS Probe - Artist View - LCROSS - Artist view - LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) is a space probe of NASA whose aim is to discover the presence of water ice in a crater perpetually in the shade of the Sun at the southern pole of the Moon. LCROSS must analyze the impact created by the top floor of its Atlas 5 launcher precipitates in this crater. LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) should be launched in June 2009 with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) payload aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. LCROSS will seek a definitive answer about the presence of water ice at the lunar south pole using the spent second stage Atlas Centaur rocket that will impact on the moon's surface / Bridgeman Images
PIX4628057: Total Eclipse of Sun. 01/08/2008 - Total Solar Eclipse of 2008 august 01 - Composite of 23 images showing the solar crown, the ash light (the Moon lit by the Earth) and the stars. Solar corona, Earth - lit Moon and stars It is a composition of 23 images showing the solar corona in very high resolution and also the Earth - lit Moon and stars up to 11 magnitude. The brightest star (4 magn.) is slightly blurred by the motion of the Sun during the eclipse. The position of the Moon represents the situation 54 seconds after the second contact (18:04:29 local time in Mongolia). Both the display of the solar corona and the lunar surface in the resulting image are beyond the ability of human vision during the eclipse / Bridgeman Images
PIX4628115: Total Eclipse of Sun from 01/08/2008 - Rosary - Total Solar Eclipse Sequence - The different phases of the total eclipse of Sun from 1st August 2008. The bright spot at the top left near the tree is Venus Planet, Mercury is the weak spot near the Sun. Weizixia, Xinjiang, China. Total Solar Eclipse sequence taken from Weizixia, Xinjiang, China on Aug 01, 2008 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4628172: Total Eclipse de Soleil. 01/08/2008 - Total Solar Eclipse of 2008 august 01 - All phases of the total eclipse of Sun from August 1st 2008. One image every 5 minutes before and after Total Solar Eclipse of 2008 august 01 seen in Mongolia. The different phases are shown in this composite of images taken every 5 minutes / Bridgeman Images
PIX4628302: Partial Eclipse of Soleil 04/01/2011 - Solar Eclipse - January 4th, 2011 - The different phases of the partial eclipse of Soleil of January 4th, 2011 seen in France. Partial solar eclipse phases seen in France. Reihenaufnahme der partiellen Sonnenfinsternis vom 4. January 2011 in den franz. Alpen on 1850m (La Rosiere) / Bridgeman Images