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Prospecting For Helium-3 On The Moon
December 2, 1998 — Future prospectors on the Moon may be assisted by resource maps developed from research by scientists in Arizona and Hawaii. The resources they will be seeking are not gold or diamonds, but helium-3 ... > full story -
Radar-Processing Algorithm Produces High-Resolution Lunar Images
November 5, 1998 — Superior radar images of the moon, inner planets and asteroids are possible with a "polar-format" radar-processing algorithm developed at the University of Illinois. The algorithm, from ... > full story -
Latest Lunar Prospector Findings Indicate Larger Amounts Of Water Ice
September 4, 1998 — The north and south poles of the Moon may contain up to six billion metric tons of water ice, a more than ten-fold increase over previous estimates, according to scientists working with data from ... > full story -
Earth Microbes On The Moon
September 2, 1998 — Space historians will recall that the journey to the stars has more than one life form on its passenger list: the names of a dozen Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon and one inadvertent ... > full story -
Investigating The Moon's Atmosphere
August 20, 1998 — An intensive effort is underway to determine the composition of the Moon's tenuous atmosphere. Although conventional wisdom says the Moon is devoid of atmosphere, and in layman's terms this ... > full story -
Lunar Prospector Finds Evidence Of Ice At Moon's Poles
March 6, 1998 — There is a high probability that water ice exists at both the north and south poles of the Moon, according to initial scientific data returned by NASA's Lunar Prospector. ... > full story -
Lunar Prospector Set To Launch Today -- Will Answer Long-Standing Questions About Our Closest Neighbor
January 5, 1998 — After 25 years, NASA is returning to the Moon with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft, scheduled for launch at 8:31 p.m. EST on Jan. 5, 1998, from Spaceport Florida's new Launch Complex 46 in Cape ... > full story -
Los Alamos Instruments To Prospect For Water On The Moon
December 31, 1997 — Sometime in the next month or so, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists will gather information bearing on a major question impacting the future of space colonization: does the moon have water? ... > full story -
NASA Statement On The Passing Of Gene Shoemaker
July 22, 1997 — Planetary scientist Dr. Eugene ("Gene") Shoemaker, 69, was killed in a two-car accident near Alice Springs, Australia, on the afternoon of July 18. His wife Carolyn Shoemaker suffered ... > full story
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