Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anders: The horizon is very, very stark. The sky is pitch-black and the moon is quite light. The contrast between the sky and the moon is a vivid dark line...
...grey, no color," Astronaut Lovell reported. "Looks like plaster of paris, or sort of a greyish deep sand. We can see quite a bit of detail. The Sea of Fertility doesn't stand out as well here as it does on earth. There's not as much contrast between that and the surrounding craters. The craters are all rounded off. The round ones look like they've been hit by meteorites or projectiles of some sort. Langrenus is quite a huge crater. It's got a central cone to it. The walls of the crater...
...Stark Contrast...
...relaxed manner and cheerfulness of the astronauts during lunar orbit was in stark contrast to their mood early Tuesday morning when Apollo was approaching the moon. As time neared for the mission's most important decision-whether to allow the spacecraft simply to whip around the moon and head back toward earth or to fire the Service Propulsion System (SPS) engine and place the craft in orbit-both the astronauts and their Houston controllers fell strangely silent. Only essential voice communications were exchanged, and these were monosyllabic and tension-filled...
Indulgent Affection. Jordaens scorned Van Dyck's elegancies. In contrast to Rubens, he looked at the roistering pleasures of a good burgher's family life without feeling any need to translate them into the realm of gods, goddesses or nymphs. He was more interested in the play of light than Rubens ever was, and his studies of faces, with that unexpected illumination that candlelight can bring, are something that Rubens never tried nor achieved...