Measuring Mountains on the Moon
Popular Physics
2019-05-21 v1 History and Overview
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1905.08191,
title = {Measuring Mountains on the Moon},
author = {Sunil K. Chebolu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.08191},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
2 pages, 3 figures