News tagged with lunar orbit
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Researcher solves 37-year old space mystery
A researcher from The University of Western Ontario has helped solve a 37-year old space mystery using lunar images released yesterday by NASA and maps from his own atlas of the moon.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Lost Reflector Found on the Moon
Physicists have pinpointed the location of a long lost light reflector left on the Moon by the Soviet Union nearly 40 years ago. The reflector could actually help today's scientists measure physical properties ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Incredible shrinking moon is revealed by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is revealing previously undetected landforms that indicate the moon is shrinking. The findings are reported in a paper, "Evidence of Recent Thrust Faulting on the Moon Revealed ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 19, 2010 |
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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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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter creating unprecedented topographic map of moon
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is allowing researchers to create the most precise and complete map to date of the moon's complex, heavily cratered landscape.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2010 |
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NASA twin spacecraft GRAIL on final approach for moon orbit
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's twin spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core are nearing their New Year's Eve and New Year's Day main-engine burns to place the duo in lunar orbit.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 28, 2011 |
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The Moon puts on camo
A new geologic map of the moon's Schrodinger basin paints an instant, camouflage-colored portrait of what a mash-up the moon's surface is after eons of violent events. The geologic record at Schrödinger is ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2010 |
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Waiter, there's metal in my moon water
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bring a filter if you plan on drinking water from the moon. Water ice recently discovered in dust at the bottom of a crater near the moon's south pole is accompanied by metallic elements like ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Like no other view on Earth
You think your vacation pictures are impressive? Try to imagine what it was like 45 years ago as scientists and engineers produced the very first images of our planet from deep space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2011 |
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Students rename NASA moon probes Ebb and Flow
A pair of unmanned NASA spacecraft that are orbiting the Moon were renamed Ebb and Flow on Tuesday by a middle school class in Montana, the US space agency announced.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 17, 2012 |
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NASA's LCROSS Reveals Target Crater For Lunar South Pole Impacts
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has selected a final destination for its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, after a journey of nearly 5.6 million miles that included several orbits around Earth ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2009 |
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First of NASA's GRAIL spacecraft enters Moon orbit
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first of two NASA spacecraft to study the moon in unprecedented detail has entered lunar orbit.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 01, 2012 |
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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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NASA's GRAIL-A spacecraft 24 hours away from Moon
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft is within 24 hours of its insertion burn that will place it into lunar orbit. At the time the spacecraft crossed the milestone ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 31, 2011 |
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Twin Grail spacecraft begin collecting lunar science data
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. During the next 84 days, scientists will obtain a ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 07, 2012 |
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