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  1. A lovely, vintage 1968 cover of Science Magazine to celebrate the international #ObserveTheMoon night, featuring a lunar gravimetric map of the earthside hemisphere, obtained by the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft tracking data.

    science.org/toc/science/161/38

    #moon #gravimetry #map #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #universe #space #science #research #cover #sciencecovers #lunarorbiter #spacecraft

  2. Beautiful cover for this 1981 issue of Science featuring the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, to illustrate the success of scientific projects as international cooperative efforts.

    science.org/toc/science/213/45

    📷 by René Racine
    ✍️ feature article by Larkin Kerwin, President of the National Research Council of Canada: science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #science #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #telescope #cfht #canada #france #hawaii #maunakea #observatory #maunakeaobservatory #sciencecovers #covers #research

  3. Science Magazine astronomy covers appreciation post

    Dawn explores Ceres (2016) - Featuring Ahuna Mons, a 4-kilometer-high cryovolcano formed by an eruption of ice from beneath the surface and an unnamed 17-kilometer-diameter crater.

    science.org/toc/science/353/63

    #universe #ceres #dwarfplanet #dawn #spacecraft #dawnspacecraft #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem #cryovolcanism #crater #craters