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Re:Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar ... by joemi on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @03:59PM (#34795904)
Wouldn't it be smarter to build on the far side of the moon? Then you don't need to worry about the Earth obscuring the sun at all, right? Or were you referring to some other phenomena?
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Re:Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar ... by 867-5309 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:34PM (#34796374)
the moon is tidally locked to the Earth, i.e. it does not rotate about an axis, and takes ~27 days to orbit. therefore around half of those days are in darkness at any given point on its surface, hence the lunar phases
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Re:Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar ... by joemi on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:20PM (#34797017)
Ah yeah, makes sense... I confused myself.
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Re:Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar ... by outworlder on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:12PM (#34796055)
You still get the Moon obscuring itself. The Earth is not eclipsing the Sun most of the time.
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