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 Translation for 'lunar orbiter' from English to French
astronau
orbiteur {m} lunaire
lunar orbiter
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astronau
sonde {f} spatiale
orbiter [space probe]
lunaire {adj}lunar
paysage {m} lunairelunar landscape
astron.
calendrier {m} lunaire
lunar calendar
astron.
éclipse {f} lunaire
lunar eclipse
astron.
mois {m} lunaire
lunar month
astronau
alunissage {m}
lunar landing
ichtyo.T
mérou {m} croissant jaune [Variola louti]
lunar-tailed rock-cod
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Usage Examples English
  • The halo area of the Apollo 15 landing site, created by the LM's exhaust plume, was observed by a camera aboard the Japanese lunar orbiter SELENE and confirmed by comparative analysis of photographs in May 2008.
  • A mass concentration (mascon), or gravitational high, was identified in the center of Mare Orientale from Doppler tracking of the five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft in 1968.
  • The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967.
  • "Luna 22" was a lunar orbiter mission. The spacecraft carried imaging cameras and also had the objectives of studying the Moon's magnetic field, surface gamma ray emissions and composition of lunar surface rocks, and the gravitational field, as well as micrometeorites and cosmic rays.
  • NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 had taken the first picture of an Earthrise from the vicinity of the Moon, on 23 August 1966.

  • The second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following was named SELENE (Selenological and Engineering Explorer) after Selene, and was also known as Kaguya in Japan.
  • The crater was also imaged in great detail by Lunar Orbiter 5.
  • India's lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 was launched from the centre at 6:22 AM IST on 22 October 2008.
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