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The Moon is now known to have large amounts of water ice hidden in permanently shadowed craters at its South Pole. As soon as this was discovered, through an experiment conducted in 2009, scientists have begun analyzing how to use these resources to further our space exploration goals.
Three years ago, the NASA Luna... |
30 March 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Investigators have found in a new study that certain areas of the Moon are wetter than locations on Earth. A polar crater on the natural satellite was found to contain more water ice than the Sahara desert. The Cabeus crater was the primary target of an investigation that was carried out last year, in October. The Lu... |
22 October 2010
03:14 GMT |
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In the latest issue of the esteemed journal Science, six new studies show that the Moon actually contains an abundance of water, especially at ground zero, where the LCROSS spacecraft slammed into the lunar surface last year. That was the first instance in which a space agency carried out such a mission. A spent rock... |
22 October 2010
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Officials at NASA announced that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has just completed the exploration phase of its mission, on September 16.This represents an impressive achievement for both the spacecraft and the team managing it, as the orbiter managed to change the way we look at the Moon almost entirely. Bef... |
16 September 2010
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For many years, scientists have believed that the Moon was a very dry and desolate place that could not support the development of water in any manner. The science against this seemed solid, so everyone was a bit shocked when instruments on an Indian probe discovered trace amounts of the liquid on the surface, and in... |
22 March 2010
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the archiving program Planetary Data System (PDS) released yesterday a new series of datasets on the our Moon. The information that were included in the releases were all collected by the seven advanced scientific instruments aboard the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance O... |
16 March 2010
04:58 GMT |
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In October, NASA deliberately crashed its Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) experiment on the south pole of the Moon, creating two impact craters. One of them was caused by the spent Centaurus rocket stage that the LCROSS instrument was carrying, while the second was made by the $79 million spacec... |
7 November 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Over the past week, debate has raged on whether or not scientific observations of the plume emitted by the Centaurus upper rocket stage upon slamming into the Moon last Friday will be visible or not. Some have argued that the calculations on which the mission was founded were flawed, while others said that the instru... |
17 October 2009
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The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission that slammed into the Moon exactly one week ago may have been destined to fail since its early days, some scientists are beginning to believe. The mission is not a failure in itself, but critics say that it was a mistake to expect that a huge plume o... |
16 October 2009
06:44 GMT |
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The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) spacecraft crashed into the Cabeus crater at the south pole of the Moon on Friday, October 9, just minutes after releasing its spent Centaurus upper stage in a free dive. As they both collapsed to the surface, the “eyes” of dozens of telescopes w... |
12 October 2009
09:07 GMT |
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Yesterday, October 9, the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) collapsed into the Cabeus crater at the lunar south pole, just minutes after it dropped its spent Centaurus upper stage at the same location. Just before impacting the ground, the Science team at the Ames Research Center reported that i... |
10 October 2009
03:29 GMT |
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The Lunar CRater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) spacecraft is no more. A few moments ago, the steering spacecraft slammed into the surface of the Moon, just four minutes after its cargo, the spent Centaurus upper rocket stage, slammed in the permanently shadowed regions of the Cabeus crater, on the Moon'... |
9 October 2009
07:51 GMT |
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Tomorrow, at 7:31 am EDT (1131 GMT), skywatchers and professional astronomers will be able to see for the first time how a spacecraft plunges to its fiery demise, as it slams into the Cabeus crater, at the Moon's south pole. According to the American space agency, a spent Centaurus rocket stage, attached to the ... |
8 October 2009
21:01 GMT |
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This Friday, October 9, could very well represent one of the most historically significant dates in human history. It may be the time when we determine for sure that water-ice reserves exist at the lunar south pole, a find that would have considerable implications for space exploration and for our future among the st... |
7 October 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Dr. Vincent Eke, from the Durham University, in the United Kingdom, is one of the experts that helped inform of NASA's decision to change the location at which it would crash its Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission. The spacecraft is scheduled to drop its spent Centaurus rocket stage ... |
5 October 2009
06:07 GMT |
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Even before lunar probes concluded that water-ice had to exist on the surface of the Moon, engineers at NASA had been studying how to obtain water from the bare space rock. Now that investigations have shown that ice can, indeed, be found on at least several locations, those visions for human exploration have been pu... |
30 September 2009
09:56 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency NASA announced yesterday that they had switched the target crater for the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) spacecraft, from Cabeus A to the larger, nearby Cabeus. Upon closer reviews of the proposed crash site, in photos provided by a number of lunar missi... |
29 September 2009
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The European Space Agency (ESA) launched its Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology (SMART-1) satellite in an orbit around the Moon on September 27, 2003. Over the next three years, the spacecraft conducted scientific observations of Earth's natural satellite. On September 3, 2006, it was deliberatel... |
26 September 2009
06:46 GMT |
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Until not long ago, experts believed that the Moon was not the most likely place in the solar system where one would find liquid water. In fact, measurements of lunar soil samples, brought back by Apollo-mission astronauts, have shown that, on average, only about 32 ounces of water could exist in theory within a ton ... |
24 September 2009
02:24 GMT |
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The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission to the Moon launched on the same Atlas V rocket as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and it is currently circling the Earth's natural satellite, waiting to drop its payload to the surface. It carries with it an empty Centaur rocket stage, ... |
14 September 2009
03:47 GMT |
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The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) instrument recently gave its mission controllers quite a fright, when it had to perform some emergency maneuvers, in order to maintain its correct course. The unplanned movements took up almost half of the craft's remaining fuel, and mission controllers... |
26 August 2009
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The American space agency NASA has recently announced the creation of a new, false-color image of the lunar South Pole, in a bid to make it easier for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission planners to select a spot where to slam their impactor. The new topographical map, among the most c... |
10 July 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Following the successful orbital insertion of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) space probe on a trajectory around the Moon yesterday, NASA announced that the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) also successfully completed the most important part of its early flight stages. The satellites swu... |
24 June 2009
02:49 GMT |
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After a large number of delays, NASA's mission to the Moon, comprised of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Spacecraft (LCROSS), has finally made it to its destination. Following the June 18th launch, the Atlas V delivery system carried the two spacecraft safely t... |
23 June 2009
08:47 GMT |
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NASA has announced that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) have successfully launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Florida. The blast-off took place at 5:32 pm EDT (2132 GMT), aboard an Atlas V delivery system. The only thing that th... |
19 June 2009
01:55 GMT |
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Later tonight, a large Atlas V delivery system is poised to lift the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) probes in lower Earth orbit, and then further into the Moon's. The two unmanned spacecraft are the first robotic probes to be sent forth to the n... |
18 June 2009
10:20 GMT |
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NASA announced yesterday afternoon the schedule it had decided for the launches of the space shuttle Endeavor to the International Space Station, as well as for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). According to the latest information coming in from the Amer... |
16 June 2009
03:39 GMT |
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The debate on whether the Moon actually holds water, be it frozen or liquid, has been raging on for several decades now, with strong arguments on both sides. Many have argued that the conditions simply do not allow for this, while others have said that ice caps such as those on Mars could exist on the natural satelli... |
15 June 2009
09:57 GMT |
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) have been completed, NASA has recently announced, and the two new instruments have already been mated together. The observatories will launch together on the same Atlas V rocket on June 17th, from the Cape Canavera... |
22 May 2009
16:51 GMT |
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was rolled out on Wednesday from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on a trip scheduled to last two days. After it was completed, the spacecraft was tested for more than two months in a thermal va... |
12 February 2009
04:53 GMT |
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Ames Research Center principal investigator Tony Colaprete says that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter which will be launched this year, at the end of October, will also carry a mission designed to study whether there is water on the Moon's poles. The so-called Lunar Crater and Observation Sensing Satellite, or L... |
28 February 2008
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