Measuring Mountains on the Moon
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⚛️ physics.pop-ph
math.HO
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mooncomputedegreeearthfollowingformgalileohalf
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Following a technique of Galileo we compute the height on a mountain on the Moon. It is based on a simple observation that precisely on a half Moon day, the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun form the vertices of a right triangle with the Moon at the 90 degree vertex.
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