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Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
While Apollo 17 astronauts
Eugene Cernan and Harrison
Schmitt visited Earth's moon
for three days in December
1972, they drove their
mission's Lunar Roving
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New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year
Taking before and after
pictures of the Martian
terrain, researchers have
identified nearly 250 fresh
impact craters on the Red
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Moon and Earth Have Common Water Source
New research finds that
water inside the moon's
mantle comes from the same
source as water on Earth.
The Moon is thought to have
formed after a giant impact
to a still-forming Earth 4.5
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Craters on the Moon: Pre-Existing Mineralogy May Survive Lunar Impacts
Large impacts on the Moon
can form wide craters and
turn surface rock liquid.
Geophysicists once assumed
that liquid rock would be
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Growing Plants on Mars
March 28, 2013 — Concrete plans for a one-way ticket to Mars have been forged. Food will have to be grown on location. Is this a distant future scenario? Not for scientists researching whether or not it is possible ... > full story -
LRO's LAMP Ultraviolet Spectrograph Observes Mercury and Hydrogen in GRAIL Impact Plumes
March 26, 2013 — When NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft made their final descent for impact onto the Moon's surface last December, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's sophisticated payload was in position to observe the ... > full story -
Moon and Asteroids Share History, NASA Scientists Find
March 25, 2013 — NASA and international researchers have discovered that Earth's moon has more in common than previously thought with large asteroids roaming our solar ... > full story -
NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell
March 19, 2013 — Many spacecraft just fade away, drifting silently through space after their mission is over, but not GRAIL. NASA's twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft went out in a blaze ... > full story -
Leaping Lunar Dust: Electrically Charged Dust Near Shadowed Craters Can Get Lofted Above Moon's Surface
March 18, 2013 — Electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region, bouncing back and forth between sunlit areas on opposite sides, according to ... > full story -
Lunar Impacts Created Seas of Molten Rock
March 11, 2013 — The impact that formed the Moon's Orientale basin created a sea of melted rock 220 miles across and 6 miles deep, according to a new analysis. Similar seas of impact melt were probably present in at ... > full story -
Cassini Makes Last Close Flyby of Saturnian Moon Rhea
March 8, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be swooping close to Saturn's moon Rhea on Saturday, March 9, the last close flyby of Rhea in Cassini's mission. The primary purpose will be to probe the internal ... > full story -
Water on the Moon: It's Been There All Along
February 18, 2013 — Traces of water have been detected within the crystalline structure of mineral samples from the lunar highland upper crust obtained during the Apollo missions, according to ... > full story -
NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon
January 17, 2013 — As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from ... > full story -
NASA's GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride
December 17, 2012 — NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut Sally K. Ride, who was America's first woman in space and a member of the probes' mission ... > full story
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