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New NASA Temperature Maps Provide 'Whole New Way Of Seeing The Moon'
September 17, 2009 — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer ... > full story -
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP Shedding Light On Permanently Shadowed Regions Of The Moon
September 17, 2009 — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. ... > full story -
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Takes First Look At Apollo 12 Landing Site
September 3, 2009 — Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing ... > full story -
Ultimate Long Distance Communication: Talking To Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
August 19, 2009 — Anyone who's vacationed in the mountains or lived on a farm knows that it's hard to get good internet access or a strong cell phone signal in a remote area. Communicating across great distances has ... > full story -
Earth Seen By NASA's Moon Mapper On India's Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft
August 4, 2009 — A new image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research ... > full story -
Rocket Fuel Research Celebrated On Anniversary Of Moon Landing
July 20, 2009 — When the lunar module took off from the surface of the moon 40 years ago Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were relying on 4 cubic tonnes of N2O4 — one of the most important rocket propellants ... > full story -
Apollo 11 Moon Rocks Still Crucial 40 Years Later, Say Researchers
July 17, 2009 — A lunar geochemist says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago July ... > full story -
First Look At The Apollo Landing Sites
July 17, 2009 — The imaging system on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph five of the six Apollo landing sites, just days before the 40th anniversary of ... > full story -
Primitive Asteroids In Main Asteroid Belt May Have Formed Far From The Sun
July 15, 2009 — Many of the objects found today in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter may have formed in the outermost reaches of the solar system, according to ... > full story -
Return To The Moon: First Images Kick Off Mapping Mission
July 2, 2009 — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken and received its first images of the Moon, kicking off the year-long mapping mission of Earth's nearest celestial ... > full story
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