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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 -
NASA Moon Impactor Successfully Completes Lunar Maneuver
June 23, 2009 — The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, successfully completed its most significant early mission milestone Tuesday with a lunar swingby and calibration of its science ... > full story -
NASA Lunar Mission Successfully Enters Moon Orbit
June 23, 2009 — After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ... > full story -
Scientists Bring 'Light' To Moon's Permanently Dark Craters
June 21, 2009 — A new lunar topography map with the highest resolution of the moon's rugged south polar region provides new information on some of our natural satellite's darkest inhabitants - permanently shadowed ... > full story -
NASA Successfully Launches Lunar Impactor
June 18, 2009 — NASA successfully launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, on a mission to search for water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's south pole. The satellite ... > full story -
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: NASA Returns To The Moon With First Lunar Launch In A Decade
June 18, 2009 — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has successfully launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will relay more information about the lunar ... > full story -
Fast Neutral Hydrogen Detected Coming From The Moon
June 18, 2009 — NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their ... > full story -
Professor Prepares For America's Return To The Moon
June 18, 2009 — Planetary scientist Mark Robinson leads a team of college researchers and grad students for this week's scheduled NASA launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. For nearly two years, the team has ... > full story -
Moon Magic: New Tool To Visualize Past, Future Lunar Eclipses
June 8, 2009 — Researchers have developed a new method for using computer graphics to simulate and render an accurate visualization of a lunar eclipse. The model uses celestial geometry of the sun, Earth, and moon, ... > full story
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