News tagged with moon rocks
New Moon Rock Is Fit for a King
(PhysOrg.com) -- People don't discover a new type of moon rock every day, so consider the odds of finding one rich in a mineral that England's King Henry V wore on his battle helmet. And then imagine spotting, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 09, 2010 |
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Biggest, Deepest Crater Exposes Hidden, Ancient Moon
(PhysOrg.com) -- Shortly after the Moon formed, an asteroid smacked into its southern hemisphere and gouged out a truly enormous crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, almost 1,500 miles across and more than ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Endeavour astronauts say goodbye to space station
(AP) -- The crews of the linked space shuttle and space station embraced and said farewell Friday as they prepared for Endeavour to begin its two-day trip home after "a mission of Olympic proportions."
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2010 |
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3D Measurements of Apollo 14 Landing Site
(PhysOrg.com) -- Can we measure the size and shape of equipment and other objects on the moon using orbital images from the current Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 02, 2010 |
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California to vote on naming Apollo 11's garbage a historical resource
When the Apollo 11 astronauts blasted off from the moon, they left behind not just the small steps of men but a giant pile of equipment and junk for all of mankind.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 30, 2010 |
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The Moon may have formed in a nuclear explosion
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new theory suggests the Moon was formed after a natural nuclear explosion in the Earth's mantle rather than after the impact of a massive object with the Earth, as previously thought.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Moon Rock Gains Traveling Companion for Historic Return to Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- A moon rock collected during the historic Apollo 11 mission more than 40 years ago will be heading back to space and a new home aboard the International Space Station, sharing quarters with a piece of Mt. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 04, 2010 |
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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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Apollo moon rocks lost in space? No, lost on Earth
(AP) -- Attention, countries of the world: Do you know where your moon rocks are?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 13, 2009 |
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Moon Rock Turns Out to be Fake
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's never ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Scientists Make Oxygen Out of Moon Rock
(PhysOrg.com) -- If humans ever create a lunar base, one of the biggest challenges will be figuring out how to breathe. Transporting oxygen to the moon is extremely expensive, so for the past several years ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Triple Asteroid System Triples Observers' Interest
(PhysOrg.com) -- Radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on June 12 and 14, 2009, revealed that near-Earth asteroid 1994 CC is a triple system. Asteroid 1994 CC encountered Earth within 2.52 million ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Apollo 11 moon rocks still crucial 40 years later, say researchers
(PhysOrg.com) -- A lunar geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Wide Awake in the Sea of Tranquillity
Neil Armstrong was supposed to be asleep. The moonwalking was done. The moon rocks were stowed away. His ship was ready for departure. In just a few hours, the Eagle's ascent module would blast off the Moon, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Asteroid Attack 4 Billion Years Ago May Have Accelerated Life on Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- The bombardment of Earth nearly 4 billion years ago by asteroids as large as Kansas would not have had the firepower to extinguish potential early life on the planet and may even have given ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 20, 2009 |
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