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[moon] / mun /




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Nearly 54 years ago, Apollo 17 blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the moon.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

“I don’t know about the moon, you know?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

For the Europa flybys, discussions about how the instruments will operate began about 10 years ago and will continue until Juice finally passes the moon in the early 2030s.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

A stockholder can hope for the moon and the stars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In her hands was a sickle moon, and behind her was an outcrop of spindly red trees with branches that looked like crooked fingers.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

It will make detailed observations of gas giant Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons - Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Preserving that fuel is especially valuable because Juice will eventually need it while carrying out its ambitious scientific campaign around Jupiter and its moons.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

This ambitious mission will characterise these moons with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Goth Shakira: It’s the full moon in Aquarius today, and full moons represent a culmination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Calculus, on the other hand, gave scientists a way to express the laws that govern the motion of the celestial bodies—and laws that would eventually tell scientists how those moons and stars had formed.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

While accepting the prize, Madonna reminisced about how her manager scolded her backstage at the very first MTV awards show, where she briefly mooned the audience in a performance fumble.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

She and Tom Arnold had mooned the crowd at a World Series game to show off their matching tattoos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2018

You wouldn't even be getting this kind of coverage if Silvio Berlusconi mooned Barack Obama in front of the UN.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2013

The worst that anti-gay rights activists faced was being mooned or flipped the bird.

From Slate ● May 16, 2012

Finn talked to squirrels and mooned out the window.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024

Would there be a ShyBelligerent if he still were mooning around Compton?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024

Now it’s possible to find statues of gnomes mooning, sitting on the toilet and vomiting rainbows.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023

Footage captured the moment a terminally ill man was arrested by police officers after "mooning" at speed camera van.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021

Neither he nor Kaspo- rio nor any of the other sellswords knew the fate of the denizens of Yezzan’s grotesquerie... but if Pretty Penny needed lies to stop her mooning, lie to her he would.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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