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  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
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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
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  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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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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

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