News tagged with lunar water ice
Soviet find of water on the Moon in the 1970s ignored by the West
(Phys.org) -- In August 1976 Luna 24 landed on the moon and returned to Earth with samples of rocks, which were found to contain water, but this finding was ignored by scientists in the West.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 01, 2012 |
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The Multiplying Mystery of Moonwater
Moonwater. Look it up. You won't find it. It's not in the dictionary.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Astronomers Will Train Big MMT Telescope on Moon During 2009 Impact
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will use the powerful University of Arizona/Smithsonian MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Ariz., to search for lunar water ice when NASA fires a 2-ton rocket into a polar crater ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 06, 2009 |
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Microwaving Water from Moondust (w/ Video)
NASA is figuring out how to make water from moondust. Sounds like magic? "No magic--" says Ed Ethridge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center "-- just microwaves. We're showing how microwaves can extract water ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Southern Arizona Telescopes Will Point at Lunar Impact Early Friday
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the some of the best ground-based telescopes in southern Arizona plan to observe two lunar impacts at 4:30 a.m. and 4:34 a.m. Arizona time Friday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Cooking Up Water From the Moon? NASA Studies Water Extraction With Microwaves
(PhysOrg.com) -- Intrigued by NASA lunar missions in the 1990s which suggested the existence of ice within craters at the moon's poles, NASA scientist Dr. Edwin Ethridge and his team started cooking up a way ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2009 |
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