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  Shine On, Shine On, Climate Monitoring Station: Moon-Based Observatories Proposed

  May 25, 2007 — Global climate change is driven by an imbalance between incoming energy from the sun and outgoing energy from Earth. Without understanding the climate system's inputs and outputs---its so-called ... > full story
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  Calculating A Sharper View Of Moon Geochemistry

  March 22, 2007 — A method of processing lunar image data significantly improves how finely scientists can discern a key geochemical feature of the Moon's surface, a new study ... > full story
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  Shooting Marbles At 16,000 Miles Per Hour

  March 19, 2007 — NASA scientist Bill Cooke is shooting marbles and he's playing "keepsies." The prize won't be another player's marbles, but knowledge that will help keep astronauts safe when America returns to the ... > full story
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  SMART-1's Bridge To The Future Exploration Of The Moon

  March 9, 2007 — ESA's SMART-1 moon mission has become a bridge to the future of lunar science and ... > full story
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  Walking Tall: Student Working On Space Suit Redesign For NASA

  February 12, 2007 — Space suits for astronauts may get a new and better design following a University of Houston doctoral student's locomotion stability research. Melissa Scott-Pandorf is a fellow of the Texas Space ... > full story
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  Study Shows Moon In New Light

  February 6, 2007 — Light has been shed on the dark parts of the Moon with experiments by University of Edinburgh researchers simulating billions of years of lunar ... > full story
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  Probing NASA's Plans For A Lunar Colony

  February 5, 2007 — The success of NASA's plans for a permanent human outpost on the moon may depend on the availability of technology that exploits the moon's environment and natural resources to obtain essentials like ... > full story
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  Twin Spacecraft Swing Past Moon, Preparing For 3-D Solar Studies

  January 24, 2007 — NASA's twin STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft, built and operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., completed a series of ... > full story
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  To The Moon! NASA To Build Lunar Base

  December 4, 2006 — NASA has unveiled the initial elements of the Global Exploration Strategy and a proposed U.S. lunar architecture to return humans to the moon. NASA's Lunar Architecture Team concluded that the most ... > full story
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  Moon's Escaping Gasses Expose Fresh Surface

  November 8, 2006 — A fresh look at Apollo-era images combined with recent spectral data leads researchers to re-examine conventional wisdom. Several lines of evidence suggest that the moon may have seen eruptions of ... > full story

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