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  Researchers Estimate Ice Content of Crater at Moon's South Pole

  June 20, 2012 — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon's south pole. The ... > full story
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  Nanoparticles Found in Moon Glass Bubbles Explain Weird Lunar Soil Behavior

  June 13, 2012 — Using synchrotron-based nano tomography, scientists have found a highly porous network of alien-looking glassy particles inside unbroken bubbles of glass in a sample of lunar ... > full story
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  Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind

  May 31, 2012 — With the moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or state of ... > full story
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  NASA Lunar Spacecraft Complete Prime Mission Ahead of Schedule

  May 30, 2012 — A NASA mission to study the moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. The team of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, with twin ... > full story
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  What Astronauts Ate: Apollo 10 Space Meal, 1969

  May 18, 2012 — This Smithsonian Snapshot marks the May 18, 1969, launch of the Apollo 10 mission with an astronaut's space meal from that ... > full story
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  Hinode Mission to Capture Annular Solar Eclipse This Weekend

  May 18, 2012 — On May 20-21, 2012 an annular eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor along Earth's northern Hemisphere -- beginning in eastern Asia, crossing the North Pacific Ocean, and ... > full story
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  Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit

  May 4, 2012 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will study Venus's atmosphere during an upcoming opportunity where Venus is passing in front of the Sun. Hubble cannot look at the Sun directly, so astronomers are ... > full story
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  Why Saturday’s 'Supermoon' Will Be Beautiful, but Not Super

  May 4, 2012 — Yes, it will be marginally brighter and larger, but Saturday's so-called "supermoon" is not going to be noticeably different from the full moon of the month before or after. An astronomer explains ... > full story
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  Splatters of Molten Rock Signal Period of Intense Asteroid Impacts on Earth

  April 25, 2012 — New research reveals that the Archean era -- a formative time for early life from 3.8 billion years ago to 2.5 billion years ago -- experienced far more major asteroid impacts than had been ... > full story
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  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Brings 'Earthrise' to Everyone

  April 19, 2012 — The moonscape was created using high-resolution topography data from LRO's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, which has provided the most precise and complete maps to date of the moon's complex, heavily ... > full story

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