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  European Moon Probe Finds Calcium On Lunar Surface

  August 19, 2006 — An instrument on the European Space Agency's Moon mission SMART-1 has produced the first detection from orbit of calcium on the lunar surface. By doing this, the instrument has taken a step towards ... > full story
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  Europe's Spacecraft To The Moon Heads Toward Final Impact

  August 14, 2006 — SMART-1, the successful first European spacecraft to the Moon, is now about to end its exploration adventure, after almost sixteen months of lunar science ... > full story
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  NASA Agrees To Cooperate With India On Lunar Mission

  May 10, 2006 — NASA will have two scientific instruments on India's maiden voyage to the moon. Tuesday, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and his counterpart, Indian Space Research Organization Chairman G. ... > full story
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  Lunar Rocks Suggest Meteorite Shower

  April 12, 2006 — New age measurements of lunar rocks returned by the Apollo space missions have revealed that a surprising number of the rocks show signs of melting about 3.9 billion years ago, suggesting that the ... > full story
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  Kaboom! Ancient Impacts Scarred Moon To Its Core, May Have Created 'Man In The Moon'

  February 10, 2006 — Ohio State University planetary scientists have found the remains of ancient lunar impacts that may have helped create the surface feature commonly called the "man in the moon." Their study suggests ... > full story
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  SMART-1 Uses New Imaging Technique In Lunar Orbit

  December 26, 2005 — The European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft has been surveying the Moon's surface in visible and near-infrared light using a new technique, never before tried in lunar ... > full story
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  Using Laser Beams And Electric Fields, NASA Researchers Probe Curious Behavior Of Moondust

  November 28, 2005 — Many researchers believe that moondust has a severe case of static cling: it's electrically charged. In the lunar daytime, intense ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun knocks electrons out of the ... > full story
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  Coming Soon: The Sun In 3-D

  November 10, 2005 — Twin spacecraft designed to capture 3-D 'stereo' views of the sun and solar wind were shipped from Johns Hopkins to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for their next round of pre-launch ... > full story
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  First Internet-Built Student Satellite Successfully Launched

  October 28, 2005 — SSETI Express, a low Earth orbit spacecraft designed and built by European university students under the supervision of ESA's Education Department, was successfully launched this morning at 08:52 ... > full story
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  NASA's Hubble Looks For Possible Moon Resources

  October 27, 2005 — NASA is using the unique capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope for a new class of scientific observations of the Earth's moon. Hubble's resolution and sensitivity to ultraviolet light have ... > full story

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