News tagged with lunar crater
Goddard Visualization Team Previews Lunar Impact
(PhysOrg.com) -- At 7:30 a.m. EDT on October 9, a two-ton rocket body will slam into a crater near the moon's south pole. By studying the resulting plume of gas and dust, scientists hope this grand experiment ...
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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You can watch NASA give the moon a one-two punch
(AP) -- NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up.
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Oct 07, 2009 |
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LCROSS Viewer's Guide
Just imagine. A spaceship plunges out of the night sky, hits the ground and explodes. A plume of debris billows back into the heavens, leading your eye to a second ship in hot pursuit. Four minutes later, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 05, 2009 |
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NASA's LCROSS Mission Changes Impact Crater
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) based on new analysis of available lunar data, has shifted the target crater from Cabeus A to Cabeus (proper).
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Sep 29, 2009 |
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New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's first-ever moon temperature-mapping effort has returned its first data.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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LCROSS Selects Crater with Best Chance of Finding Water
NASA has identified the spot where it will search for water on the moon.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3
Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Moonship Photographed by Backyard Astronomers
On June 29th, neighbors of Paul Mortfield in Ontario, Canada, heard "cheers of excitement" coming from the astronomer's house. What caused the commotion?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2009 |
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NASA Details Plans for Lunar Exploration Robotic Missions
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor. On Thursday, the agency outlined the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 22, 2009 |
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LCROSS Mission To Seek Water Ice on Moon Heads to Florida for Launch
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, is enroute from Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation ...
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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NASA Radar Provides First Look Inside Moon's Shadowed Craters
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 16, 2009 |
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