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New Explorer Mission Chooses the 'Just-Right' Orbit
Principal investigator
George Ricker likes to call
it the "Goldilocks orbit" --
it's not too close to Earth
and her Moon, and it's not
too far. In fact, it's just
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Station Astronauts Remotely Control Planetary Rover from Space
On June 17 and July 26, NASA
tested the Surface
Telerobotics exploration
concept, in which an
astronaut in an orbiting
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Bad Night's Sleep? The Moon Could Be to Blame
Many people complain about
poor sleep around the full
moon, and now a report
offers some of the first
convincing scientific
evidence to suggest that
this really is true. The
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New Insights Into the Early Bombardment History on Mercury
Astronomers have studied the
surface of Mercury to better
understand if the plains
were formed by volcanic
flows or composed of
material ejected from the
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Lunar Cycle Affects Cardiac Patients Undergoing Acute Aortic Dissection: Waning and Full Moon Cycles Impact Length of Stay, Mortality
July 15, 2013 — If you need cardiac surgery in the future, aortic dissection in particular, reach for the moon. Or at least try to schedule your surgery around its cycle. A new study found that acute aortic ... > full story -
Metamorphosis of Moon's Water Ice Explained
June 19, 2013 — Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions -- a permanently shadowed crater on ... > full story -
Native Ohioans' Speaking Patterns Help Scientists Decipher Famous Moon Landing Quote
May 30, 2013 — Speech scientists and psychologists discuss a novel approach to deciphering Armstrong’s famous moon landing ... > full story -
One of the Moon's Mysteries Solved: Origin of Mascon Basins
May 30, 2013 — A mystery of the moon that imperiled astronauts and spacecraft on lunar missions has been solved. Large concentrations of mass lurk on the lunar surface that can change the gravity field and either ... > full story -
Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
May 17, 2013 — 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 Vehicle 19.3 nautical miles (22.210 statute ... > full story -
New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year
May 15, 2013 — Taking before and after pictures of the Martian terrain, researchers have identified nearly 250 fresh impact craters on the Red Planet. The results provide scientists with a better yardstick to ... > full story -
Moon and Earth Have Common Water Source
May 9, 2013 — 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 million years ... > full storyMore: -
Craters on the Moon: Pre-Existing Mineralogy May Survive Lunar Impacts
April 2, 2013 — Large impacts on the Moon can form wide craters and turn surface rock liquid. Geophysicists once assumed that liquid rock would be homogenous when it cooled. Now researchers have found evidence that ... > full story -
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
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