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Our Universe is not silent.. Although space is a vacuum, that does not mean there is no sound in it. Yes, space is a vacuum - so it generally doesn't carry sound waves like air does here on Earth. However, some sounds do exist in outer space, we just can't hear them. Various probes that zoom through the space are capable of capturing radio emissions from astronomical objects. NASA's scientist have designed special instrument known as 'astronomical interferometer' which can record these electromagnetic vibrations, and transfer them into sounds within range of human hearing (20-20,000 Hz). Interesting Facts about our Moon: The Moon's Latin name is Luna. The Moon formed approx. 4.5 billion years ago. Moon is the fifth-largest natural satellite in the Solar System. The moon orbits the Earth at an average speed of 3,700 kilometers an hour. The Moon is in synchronous rotation with Earth - it is always shows Earth the same side. The Moon’s surface is dark. The dark side of the Moon cools to about -169 degrees Celsius. During the lunar day that lasts about a month Moon's surface bakes in the sun at up to 117 degrees Celsius. The Moon is drifting away from the Earth approx. 3.8 cm every year. The Moon has quakes called the Moonquakes. There is water on the Moon. The Soviet Union’s Luna program featured the first successful landing of an unmanned spacecraft on the surface of the Moon in 1966. The USA’s NASA Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was the first manned Moon landing. The first person to set foot on the Moon was Neil Armstrong. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon. The Moons is actually more of an oval shape. The Moon is international property. Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was allergic to the Moon. Astronauts have brought 842 pounds of moon material back to Earth. The dark spots on the moon are called maria.

Russia’s first moon mission in decades fails as Luna-25 crashes into lunar surface; all eyes on Chandrayaan-3 On Sunday afternoon, Roscosmos announced that Luna-25 had crash-landed on the Moon’s surface in a disappointing end to the mission. Meanwhile, Chandrayaan-3 is readying for its descent at around 5.45 pm IST on Wednesday On Sunday morning, Chandrayaan-3 moved into its pre-landing orbit of 25 km x 134 km from the lunar surface, in preparation for its scheduled landing on Wednesday. It is from this orbit that the spacecraft would begin its descent at around 5.45 pm IST on Wednesday. The touchdown is expected to happen after 15 minutes. Luna-25 was scheduled to make a soft landing on the Moon’s surface on Monday, August 21, two days ahead of Chandrayaan-3. Both of them were supposed to land in the region around the lunar south pole. But the Russian spacecraft developed problems on Saturday as it tried to move into the pre-landing orbit Luna-25's Encounter Before Moon Landing #LUNA25 #cha

A barren, rocky desert landscape and not a single soul around – to come as close as possible to the inhospitable conditions on the Red Planet, scientists of the Robotics Innovation Center of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) tested the cooperation of various robot systems in the desert of the American state of Utah from 24 October to 18 November 2016. The project Field Trials Utah (FT-Utah) is funded by the German Space Agency (DLR Agentur) with federal funds of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in accordance with the parliamentary resolution of the German Parliament, grant no. 50 RA 1621 (DFKI) and 50RA1622 (University of Bremen).

Maas Digital created this animation of the Mars Exploration Rover mission for Cornell University and NASA/JPL in 2003. 24fps / Sound Effects Only version.