{"id":83,"date":"2022-10-17T07:37:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T07:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/?p=83"},"modified":"2022-10-17T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T07:37:57","slug":"reflection-method-for-measuring-the-distance-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/reflection-method-for-measuring-the-distance-of-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection method for measuring the distance of the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/How-to-Measure-Moon-Distance-678x378-1.webp\" alt=\"Reflection method for measuring the distance of the moon\" class=\"wp-image-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/How-to-Measure-Moon-Distance-678x378-1.webp 678w, https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/How-to-Measure-Moon-Distance-678x378-1-300x167.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Laser is used for this method. The word laser stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Laser is a source of <strong><em>very intens<\/em><\/strong>e, <strong><em>highly monochromati<\/em><\/strong>c (of one wavelength) and <strong><em>highly directional<\/em><\/strong> beam of light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A laser beam is sent towards the moon and its reflected pulse is received. If &#8216;t&#8217; is the time elapsed between the instants the laser beam is sent and received back, then the distance of the moon from the earth is given by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S = c x t \/ 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>where c = 3 \u00d7 10<sup>8<\/sup> ms<sup>-1<\/sup>, is the speed of light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser is used for this method. The word laser stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Laser is a source of very intense, highly monochromatic (of one wavelength) and highly directional beam of light. A laser beam is sent towards the moon and its reflected pulse is received. If &#8216;t&#8217; is the time &#8230; <a title=\"Reflection method for measuring the distance of the moon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/reflection-method-for-measuring-the-distance-of-the-moon\/\" aria-label=\"More on Reflection method for measuring the distance of the moon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}