NASA launching robotic explorer to moon from Va.
NASA is poised to return to the moon.
Space Exploration
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News tagged with lunar atmosphere
Life on earth: Why we may have the moon's now defunct magnetic field to thank for it
The habitability of a planet depends on many factors. One is the existence of a strong and long-lived magnetic field. These fields are generated thousands of kilometers below the planet's surface in its liquid core and extend ...
Space Exploration
Oct 15, 2020
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NASA's LADEE mission shows the force of meteoroid strikes on lunar exosphere
NASA scientists have released new findings about the moon's tenuous exosphere – the thin layer of gas surrounding the moon that's one 25-trillionth the density of Earth's atmosphere. The data reveal, for the first time, ...
Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2015
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Space laser to prove increased broadband possible
When NASA's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) begins operation aboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission managed by NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., it will ...
Space Exploration
Aug 28, 2013
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Model Helps Search for Moon Dust Fountains
(PhysOrg.com) -- In exploration, sometimes you find more than what you're looking for, including things that shouldn’t be there. As the Apollo 17 astronauts orbited over the night side of the moon, with the sun just beneath ...
Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2010
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Total lunar eclipse: observing the Earth as a transiting planet
Astronomers have succeeded in recording sunlight shining through the Earth's atmosphere in a manner similar to the study of distant exoplanets. During the extraordinary occasion of a lunar eclipse, the Large Binocular Telescope ...
Astronomy
Mar 3, 2020
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LADEE sees zodiacal light before crashing into moon, but Apollo mystery remains
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) literally 'saw the light' just days before crashing into the lunar farside last Thursday April 17. Skimming just a few kilometers above the moon's surface, ...
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2014
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Jupiter's moons remain slightly illuminated, even in eclipse
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have found that Jupiter's Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) remain slightly bright (up to one millionth of their normal state) even ...
Astronomy
Jun 20, 2014
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Get ready for a total lunar eclipse
Look up towards the east on Wednesday night (October 8) and a total lunar eclipse will be visible from across Australia.
Space Exploration
Oct 3, 2014
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New lunar eclipse video released
(PhysOrg.com) -- In anticipation of the upcoming lunar eclipse later this month, NASA has released a new video that shows how lunar eclipses work.
Space Exploration
Jun 9, 2011
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