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NASA News Briefs and Releases BBSNews 2006 Compiled by Kandy Ringer |
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| The lunar Alps border the moon's Sea of Rains. The dark oval labeled "Olympic Village" is Plato.
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NASA via BBSNews - 2006-02-08 -- If winter Olympic Games were held on the moon, where would they be? The lunar Alps, of course. Never heard of them? They exist, and you can see them with our own eyes this week. "Lunar Olympics" kicks off a series of Science@NASA articles about the physics of low-gravity sports.
FULL STORY at Lunar Olympics.
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