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Cassini Probe to Fly Into Saturn's Moon

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 - 16:30:00 - Ehud Rattner

The Cassini spacecraft will fly into mysterious icy plumes erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday. The flyby, the spacecraft's closest...

Does Saturn's Moon Have Rings?

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 - 23:17:51 - Iddo Genuth

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first time rings may have been...

NASA to Smash Spacecraft into the Mooon

Friday, February 29th, 2008 - 10:16:43 - Iddo Genuth

Scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon's South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice. The...

NASA Reveals Moon's South Pole Map

Thursday, February 28th, 2008 - 17:32:00 - Ehud Rattner

NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters per pixel...

Running is Better than Walking on the Moon

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 - 10:04:39 - Iddo Genuth

Future astronauts should run, not walk, across the lunar surface to conserve energy, new laboratory tests suggest. The tests were done using an...

China to Launch Lunar Probe in 2009

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 - 14:43:19 - Iddo Genuth

China plans to launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, around 2009, according to the People's Daily magazine. The 2,350-kilogram satellite...

10 Teams Join Google Moon Race

Friday, February 22nd, 2008 - 22:05:34 - Iddo Genuth

Ten teams have registered to compete in the Google-sponsored robotic race to the moon, the X PRIZE Foundation announced Thursday. The first team to...

Nasa Prepares Mobile Network on the Moon

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 - 18:12:07 - Iddo Genuth

Even in the cosmos there will be no escaping the ringtone as Nasa and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) prepare to trial a mobile phone...

NASA's Annual Great Moonbuggy Race
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 - Noa Rotkop
NASA's 15th annual Great Moonbuggy Race is scheduled for April, 2008. Each year, college and high school students design and...