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Landing Pads Being Designed for Extraterrestrial Missions
September 20, 2012 — When the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover landed on Aug. 6, it was another step forward in the effort to eventually send humans to the Red Planet. Using the lessons of the Apollo era and ... > full story -
NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science
August 31, 2012 — NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended ... > full story -
Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice
August 29, 2012 — Scientists have estimated the maximum amount of ice likely to be found inside a permanently shadowed lunar crater located near the moon's south pole. As much as 5 to 10 percent of material, by ... > full story -
Lunar 'Hit-and-Run': New Research Eclipses Existing Theories on Formation of the Moon
August 29, 2012 — A new study highlights a novel perspective on how the moon was formed. The moon is believed to have formed from a collision, 4.5 billion years ago, between Earth and an impactor the size of Mars, ... > full story -
Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012: U.S. Astronaut Was First Man to Walk on the Moon
August 25, 2012 — Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, has died, following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. He was 82. Armstrong's words "That is ... > full story -
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spectrometer Detects Helium in Moon's Atmosphere
August 15, 2012 — Scientists using the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) spectrometer aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have made the first spectroscopic observations of the noble gas helium in the ... > full story -
New Findings Expand Apollo Observations of Lunar Atmosphere
July 16, 2012 — In December 1972 the astronauts of Apollo 17 -- the last manned mission to the moon -- deployed the Lunar Atmospheric Composition Experiment (LACE), a spectrometer designed to measure and ... > full story -
Asteroid Strikes Cause the Moon's Surface to Smooth
July 16, 2012 — The lunar surface is marred by impact craters, remnants of the collisions that have occurred over the past 4.5 billion years. The Orientale basin, the Moon's most recently formed sizeable crater, ... > full story -
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 -
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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