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PHOTOGRAPH BY KEITH LADZINSKI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
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How did Galileo change the view that the universe revolved around the Earth? He focused on the moon and its changes—then flipped the script on heavenly motion.
Our craggy and fascinating satellite has been a target of superstitions—werewolves, lunacy—but our vision and understanding of it is getting clearer with more detailed astronomy, mapmaking, and images. NASA’s Apollo missions planted, for a short time, boots on the ground. Now the Artemis mission, launching skyward as soon as later this month, will help us further, Nat Geo reports.
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