Items tagged with lunar

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Astronauts Could 'Harvest' Water On The Moon Saturday, September 26th, 2009 - 09:26:13 - Anuradha Menon Newly confirmed water on the moon could help sustain lunar astronauts and even propel missions to Mars, if harvesting it can be made practical. A... read more

NASA Finds Water Molecules on Lunar Surface Friday, September 25th, 2009 - 14:34:13 - Anuradha Menon NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water... read more

NASA Begins Mapping Moon's South Pole Saturday, September 19th, 2009 - 16:14:36 - Anuradha Menon During the LRO Commissioning Phase, the high-resolution Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) captured this 1-m pixel scale (angular resolution)... read more

Russians Landed on Moon Before Americans Saturday, July 4th, 2009 - 10:34:57 - Anuradha Menon In July 1969, the telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, were tracking the Americans' Eagle Lander carrying astronauts towards the... read more

LRO Sends its First Lunar Images to Earth Friday, July 3rd, 2009 - 09:04:37 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on June 23. The spacecraft's two cameras, collectively... read more

LRO in Lunar Orbit, LCROSS Swings By Moon Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 - 09:06:46 - Anuradha Menon The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has successfully entered orbit around the moon following a nearly five-day journey. Engineers at NASA's Goddard... read more

LRO, LCROSS Liftoff on Lunar Journey Friday, June 19th, 2009 - 18:15:48 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, successfully separated from the Centaur upper stage and Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or... read more

Japan’s Moon Probe Makes Crash Landing Friday, June 12th, 2009 - 16:27:10 - Anuradha Menon A Japanese probe ended more than a year of orbiting the moon with a controlled crash-landing on the lunar surface, officials said Thursday. The... read more

Apollo Scientist Dusts Off 'Lost' Lunar Data Sunday, April 26th, 2009 - 13:59:13 - Ehud Rattner A new analysis based on an Apollo scientist's copies of lost NASA data seeks to determine how sticky, abrasive moon dust will affect lengthier future... read more

Twilight Sky Show On Sunday Saturday, April 25th, 2009 - 10:02:17 - Anuradha Menon On Sunday evening, April 26, the crescent Moon, Mercury and the Pleiades star cluster will gather for a three-way conjunction in the western sky... read more

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