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"image_url": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2412/AS17-149-22859-2v2SmlWmk1024.jpg",
"explanation": "\n Explanation: \n\nAwkward and angular looking,\nApollo 17's\nlunar module Challenger\nwas designed for flight in the near vacuum of space. \n\nDigitally enhanced and reprocessed,\nthis picture taken from Apollo 17's\ncommand module America\nshows Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit.\n\nSmall reaction control thrusters are at the sides of\nthe moonship with the bell of the ascent rocket engine underneath.\n\nThe hatch allowing access\nto the lunar surface is seen at the front,\nwith a round radar antenna at the top.\n\nMission commander Gene Cernan is clearly visible through the triangular\nwindow.\n\nThis spaceship performed gracefully, landing on the Moon\nand returning the Apollo astronauts to the orbiting command module\nin December of 1972.\n\nSo where is Challenger now?\n\nIts descent stage remains at the Apollo 17 landing site in the\nTaurus-Littrow valley.\n\nThe ascent stage pictured was intentionally crashed nearby\nafter being jettisoned from the command module prior to\nthe astronauts'\nreturn\nto planet Earth.\n\n",
"authors": "Apollo 17, NASA, Andy Saunders\n"
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"date": "2024 December 15:",
"title": "Geminid Meteors over a Snowy Forest",
"url": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241215.html",
"image_url": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2412/Geminids_Kurak_960.jpg",
"explanation": "\n Explanation: \nMeteors have been flowing out from the \nconstellation Gemini. \n\nThis was expected, as mid-December is the time of the \nGeminid Meteor Shower. \n\nPictured here, over two dozen meteors were caught in \nsuccessively added exposures taken over \nseveral hours early Saturday morning from a \nsnowy forest in \nPoland.\n\nThe \nfleeting streaks \nwere bright enough to be seen over the din of the \nnearly full Moon on the upper right.\n\nThese streaks can all be traced back to a point on the sky called the \nradiant toward the bright stars \nPollux and Castor in the image center.\n\nThe Geminid meteors \nstarted as sand sized bits expelled from asteroid \n3200\nPhaethon during its \nelliptical orbit through the \ninner Solar System. \n\n\n",
"authors": "Jakub Ku\u0159\u00e1k\n"
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