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Lunacid

Lunacid is a 2023 dark fantasy first-person dungeon crawler RPG by Kira (Akuma Kira), inspired by King's Field and Shadow Tower. Set in the Great Well; 9 classes, 75+ weapons, 37 spells, Lunacy lunar mechanic.

Lunae Mensa

Lunae Mensa is a flat-topped mesa on Mars, an IAU-approved albedo feature name from 1988, centered at 23.91 latitude, 114.75 longitude, with a 297.50 km diameter, near Lunae Planum and Labeatis Mensa.

Lunae Planum

Lunae Planum, a 1,800 km-wide early Hesperian ridged volcanic plateau on Mars between Tharsis and Chryse Planitia; IAU name approved 1973 after the goddess Luna; wrinkle ridges, Kasei Valles.

Oct 22, 2026

Lunalilo

Lunalilo (William Charles Lunalilo) was the first elected king of the Hawaiian Kingdom, chosen by popular vote in 1873 and reigning just over a year.

Lunan-Korla Parallel Oil Pipeline

The Lunan-Korla Parallel Oil Pipeline (轮库复线) is a 161.5 km crude oil pipeline in Xinjiang, China, commissioned in 1996 to replace the original 1992 Lunnan-Korla line.

LunaNet

LunaNet is a NASA-led framework of agreed standards and protocols for interoperable communications and navigation around the Moon, run as an internet-like network of commercial, government, and international providers.

Lunang Vallis

Lunang Vallis is a 250-km sinuous channel on Venus at 68.2N, 310E in western Ishtar Terra, IAU-named in 1997 for a Nuristan river goddess; it dissects shield edifices and is cited as evidence for subsurface channel formation.

Lunapark „Bobby & Kelly“

Lunapark „Bobby & Kelly“ (Лунапарк „Боби & Кели“, formerly Patilantsi) is a children's amusement park in Mladost 3, Sofia, opened 1998, with 5,200 m2 indoor and outdoor space, over 30 attractions, and the La Rocca restaurant.

Lunapark Robland

Lunapark Robland (Wesołe Miasteczko Robland) is a Polish family travelling funfair from Leszno with 52 years of experience, a summer site in Ustronie Morskie, 30 m Ferris wheels, Booster and Mega Drop rides, and a 1970 Schwarzkopf Jet Star coaster.

Sep 19, 2026

Lunar

Lunar is a Danish fintech company founded in 2015 in Aarhus that operates Lunar Bank, a digital, branchless bank with over 1 million users across Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

Lunar and Planetary Institute

The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is a research institute in Houston, Texas, founded in 1968 to study Apollo lunar samples and now covering all planetary science.

Lunar calendar

A lunar calendar is one whose months follow the Moon's phase cycle, so a purely lunar year of 354 days drifts through the seasons in about 33 years.

Lunar craters

Lunar craters are depressions left by impacts of asteroids, meteoroids, or comets on the Moon, preserved exceptionally well and covering most of the lunar surface.

Lunar Cruiser

Lunar Cruiser (ルナクルーザー) is the nickname of a crewed pressurized lunar rover developed by JAXA and Toyota since 2019, letting astronauts ride without spacesuits on NASA's Artemis missions.

Lunar distance

Lunar distance, also called Earth-Moon distance, is the separation between Earth and the Moon, averaging about 384,400 km and ranging from roughly 356,500 to 406,700 km.

Lunar dorsa and wrinkle-ridge systems

Lunar dorsa are the Moon's officially named wrinkle ridges, formed when basalt plains of the maria contracted over buried thrust faults; most were named in 1976.

Lunar dynasty

Lunar dynasty (Chandravamsha, चंद्रवंश): ancient Indian royal lineage traced to the Moon through Budha and Pururavas Aila; Yayati's sons Yadu and Puru founded its Yadava and Paurava branches, ancestors of the Kauravas, Pandavas, and Krishna.

Lunar eclipse

A lunar eclipse, or eclipse of the Moon, occurs when Earth passes between the Sun and a full Moon, so the Moon moves through Earth's shadow.

Lunar eclipses of the 16th–18th centuries

A catalog of the 738 lunar eclipses Earth experienced from 1501 to 1800, covering notable events, eclipse classification, and the scientific use of historical observations.

Lunar eclipses of the 20th century

Lunar eclipses of the 20th century: Earth experienced 229 lunar eclipses from 1901 to 2000, of which 81 were total, cataloged by astronomers Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus.

Lunar eclipses of the 21st century

The lunar eclipses of the 21st century, also listed as the list of 21st-century lunar eclipses, are the 228 eclipses occurring between 2001 and 2100, including 85 total eclipses.

Lunar eclipses of the 22nd century

The lunar eclipses of the 22nd century are the 238 eclipses predicted between January 2101 and December 2200, comprising 81 penumbral, 88 partial, and 69 total eclipses.

Lunar effect

The lunar effect is the claimed influence of the Moon's phases, especially the full moon, on human behavior and health; large-scale research has found no reliable connection.

Lunar Flag Assembly

The Lunar Flag Assembly (LFA) is the telescoping pole and crossbar device that let Apollo astronauts plant a US flag on the airless Moon, 1969 to 1972.

Lunar Gateway

Lunar Gateway, also called the Lunar Orbital Platform, was a planned modular space station in lunar orbit under NASA's Artemis program, sidelined in 2026 in favor of a Moon base.

Lunar Lake

Lunar Lake is the code name for Intel's Core Ultra 200V mobile processors for thin-and-light laptops, launched in September 2024 with a focus on power efficiency.

Lunar Landing Research Vehicle

The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV), or Lunar Landing Test Vehicle, was a NASA aircraft built by Bell Aerosystems that simulated Moon landings on Earth, training Apollo astronauts from 1964.

Lunar laser ranging

Lunar laser ranging (LLR) is a geodetic technique that times laser pulses fired at retroreflector arrays on the Moon, measuring the Earth-Moon distance to millimeter precision since 1969.

Oct 22, 2026

Lunar lava tubes

Lunar lava tubes are empty conduits beneath the Moon's surface left when lava flows drained away; orbital evidence confirms intact examples exist, potentially far larger than any cave on Earth.