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In a paper published in a recent online issue of the American Geophysical Union's Journal of Geophysical Research, experts explain how the color and chemistry of lunar dust and ice are constantly being changed by cosmic rays bombarding the Moon's surface.
The process is taking place around the clock, altho... |
20 March 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Using the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), experts at NASA were recently able to capture a detailed view of the Apollo 11 landing site, where the first human walked on the surface of the Moon.
This site is located in Mare Tranquillitatis, a landscape feature on the lunar surface whose name means Sea of Tranquili... |
14 March 2012
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The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) managed to snap the most detailed image to date of the Apollo 15 landing site. Using its Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) instrument, the spacecraft managed to make out individual pieces of hardware left behind by the moonwalkers. NASA astronauts David Scott and James Irwin spent ... |
6 March 2012
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In a discovery that raises a lot of new questions on the mechanisms and processes that led to the formation of the Moon, researchers identified telltale signs on the surface of Earth's natural satellite indicating that it may have been geologically active as recently as 50 million years ago.
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20 February 2012
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Experts from Arizona and Pennsylvania propose that the Moon and Mars may represent excellent places to start searching for alien artifacts. These objects may have been left behind by space probes or other spacecraft that may have visited our solar system a long time ago.
Both these celestial bodies have surfaces th... |
27 December 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Between 0133 and 1730 UTC tomorrow, December 10, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will be monitoring the last lunar eclipse to occur in 2011. The spacecraft will get an excellent view of the event, since it orbits only 31 miles (nearly 50 kilometers) above its surface.
One of the most important things re... |
9 December 2011
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A new high-resolution image of the lunar surface was just released by investigators in charge of the imaging cameras aboard the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The view includes only a year's-worth of data, and covers nearly the entire surface of Earth's natural satellite.
Astronomers say that th... |
17 November 2011
02:28 GMT |
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The latest images sent back by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) reveal interesting fissures on the bottom of the Aitken Crater, on the lunar surface. The landscape feature is located at 16.8°S, 173.4°E, for those of you who want to investigate it for yourselves.
The crater itself is rather large,... |
2 November 2011
10:13 GMT |
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On Friday, October 7, scientists Mark Robinson and Brett Denevi held a presentation at the joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences, revealing the presence of vast titanium deposits on the Moon.
The discovery was made usi... |
8 October 2011
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Using data from a spacecraft in orbit around Earth's natural satellite, researchers at the American space agency announce the creation of the first high-resolution, highly-detailed map of the lunar north pole. The area, now visible in a manner that cannot be observed from the surface of the planet directly, has ... |
9 September 2011
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Officials at the American space agencies have just released several new high-resolution photos of a number of Apollo landing sites. The batch of images was made available yesterday, September 6, and many of them show the disposition of equipment that was left behind on the Moon.
The datasets were collected by the... |
7 September 2011
02:56 GMT |
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Scientists announce the discovery of a volcano on the far side of the Moon, at a location that has been baffling astronomers for several years. The area was known as a curious hot spot, but its position prevented experts from conducting in-depth studies.The latest images of the structure reveal it to be a volcanic pr... |
25 July 2011
03:31 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was recently able to capture a series of breathtaking images of a massive lunar crater. The views depict the entire area in exquisite detail, allowing investigators to get more insight into what helped shape it. Mission contro... |
30 June 2011
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A group of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasadena, announce the creation of the first complete set of lunar surface roughness maps. The datasets used to compile the new products were provided by a highly-successful NASA mission. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) used its Lun... |
28 June 2011
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Experts at the American space agency say that the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has already helped scientists change their view of the Earth's Moon. Thus far, the spacecraft has sent back the equivalent of 41,000 data DVDs, and the work is still being carried on.The information glimpsed by the LRO suit... |
22 June 2011
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As amateur and professional skywatchers and astronomers around the world are preparing to observe tomorrow night' long-duration lunar eclipse, NASA too is gearing up for its own observations session. It will be using the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) for the job. The spacecraft has been in orbit around the ... |
14 June 2011
11:05 GMT |
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Over the past 4 and a half billion years, the Moon has suffered tremendous damage from space impactors and internal processes, acting like a true shield for Earth in the process. The scars it carries to prove this now also provide insight into some of the processes that shape its surface.
These are the same proce... |
14 May 2011
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The science group in charge of processing the readings taken by a NASA orbiter around the Moon have just released the final batch of data. The information were collected during the mission's exploration phase, which concluded some time ago. At the same time, the experts also published data collected by the Lunar... |
16 March 2011
07:04 GMT |
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For the first time in decades, astronomers and researchers now have access to a new set of images showing the far side of the Moon. This area has never been studied in depth before, experts say.The reason for that is that the lunar half is always obscured from view, as seen from the surface of out planet. This is why... |
12 March 2011
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Officials at the American space agency decided to extend the operational life of a sensitive camera aboard its current lunar orbiter. The extension contract is valued at $11,368,735, and is expected to run between March 1, 2011 and March 15, 2013. According to NASA representatives from the Goddard Space Flight Center... |
11 February 2011
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Scientists operating a NASA spacecraft in lunar orbit announced that they managed to snap new pictures of what appears to be an opening in an ancient lava tube on the surface of the natural satellite.The opening reveals a pitch-black pit underneath, that may run a good distance underneath the lunar surface. The new i... |
9 February 2011
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Since being launched in 2009, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been photographing the surface of Earth's natural satellite almost non-stop. This is now enabling experts to create the most detailed map of the space body's surface to date.The main contribution the LRO made to the field of lunar... |
22 December 2010
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There are many questions about the Earth’s Moon that are still unanswered, and even if it's closer to us than the other planets within the solar system, these questions will subside for a while; all questions except one: which is the highest point on the Moon?If you ever wandered this, now that over the co... |
29 October 2010
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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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Investigators operating the LROC instrument aboard a NASA orbiter currently around the Moon announce the discovery of natural bridges on the lunar surface. The formations are well known from our planet, where natural arches and bridges exist at several locations. The structures are formed through erosion, by either w... |
20 September 2010
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The images and datasets sent back by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show that the Moon is in fact a lot more complex from a geological standpoint than anyone first thought.This has prompted experts to call for a continuation of these investigations, in the hopes that one day the lunar mystery will be unt... |
17 September 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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Geologists and planetary scientists believe that the Moon has shrunk entirely in the past, and some evidence point that the same may be going on even now. The data that informed the new study came from the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, which has been orbiting Earth's natural satellite since... |
20 August 2010
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As part of its Discovery Program, the American space agency plans to launch a new spacecraft in 2011. Dubbed Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), the mission will include several components, of which one is to take off next year. Just recently, scientists managed to finally confirm the size and fit of a ... |
29 July 2010
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The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is best known for its contribution to detecting water on Earth's natural satellite. When it launched in 2009, it shared its delivery system with the LCROSS impactor that later slammed into the south lunar pole, revealing the existence of water-ice in craters at those l... |
28 July 2010
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Last year brought more information than ever about the Earth's satellite, mainly thanks to NASA's spacecraft. It has gathered more digital information than any other planetary mission before.Launched on June 18, 2009, its purpose was to serve as a robotic scout for future missions and to spot any trace of i... |
7 July 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
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The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is undoubtedly one of the American space agency's most valuable assets in space today. In addition to being able to produce accurate maps of the Moon, and investigate possible landing sites for future missions, the probe can also apparently help create 3D images of par... |
1 February 2010
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One thing that can be said for certain about the Moon is that it has had a rough life. Since it first formed, it has been constantly battered by asteroids, meteorites and comets, as evidenced by the massive amounts of impact craters that adorn its surface. Some of these landscape features are very important because t... |
20 January 2010
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As experts at NASA work around the clock to make Project Constellation, with all of its components, a tangible reality, scientists managing the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), currently in orbit around the Moon, are fulfilling their part of the mission flawlessly. Just recently, the team announced that it would b... |
8 January 2010
11:17 GMT |
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Over the past few years, the Moon has been scanned from all directions by a swathe of spacecraft and other scientific instruments, in a bid to create either high-detail maps, or to determine the most likely location in which water-ice exists. As NASA was investigating possible sites to crash its LCROSS mission into, ... |
18 December 2009
04:03 GMT |
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is one of the two Moon-bound spacecraft that NASA launched this June, aboard an Atlas V delivery system. While the LCROSS impactor already finished its mission, after slamming a spent rocket stage, and then itself, into the lunar south pole, the LRO is still returning valuable d... |
16 December 2009
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Having recently maneuvered into its 50-kilometer mapping orbit around the Moon, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is now able to snap amazing, high-detail photos of features that have only been hinted at by other orbiters around the satellites until now. The switch from one orbit to the other took place ... |
29 October 2009
11:10 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
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft recently photographed the impact crater left behind by the upper stage of the Saturn IVB delivery system that the space agency intentionally crashed on the lunar surface on February 4, 1971. The reason why the deorbiting took place was for scientists to get a ... |
9 October 2009
04:49 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
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When someone begins to wonder where the coldest place in our immediate surrounding is, the Moon is not the first place to come to mind. But measurements taken with the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE) instrument, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), proved that, for now, the coldest place ... |
18 September 2009
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In an announcement it made yesterday, the American space agency NASA said that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe had made an amazing discovery on the Moon – the first signs of water on Earth's natural satellite. After having successfully completed its calibration and fine-tuning stages, the orbi... |
18 September 2009
02:15 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
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Freshly arrived on the Moon's orbit just at the end of last month, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is not wasting any time standing idly around, and has already started photographing the lunar surface. It is, at this point, fulfilling two tasks – looking for resources, or potential places wh... |
3 July 2009
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In a test that took place yesterday, July 1st, at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, space shuttle Endeavor's external hydrogen fuel tanks were filled to the brink with propellant, as engineers watched the troublesome valve that kept the shuttle from taking off twice with tension. But, after adding ... |
2 July 2009
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe, launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on June 18th, has only recently successfully entered the Moon's orbit. While the event marks the beginning of NASA's return to the natural satellite, which will culminate in 2020 with a proposed manne... |
25 June 2009
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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
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