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 Sunspot NM (SPX) Oct 06, 2009 
In the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 9, as many people in New Mexico are still asleep or barely stirring, a momentous event will be happening in outer space that could help define future space travel. That event is a rocket smashing into a permanently shadowed crater on the moon, and New Mexico State University astronomers have a front-row seat on all the action. NMSU is taking part in a ... read more
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 06, 2009Just 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, that one hits the ground, too. It's raining spaceships! Put on your hard hat and get ready for action, because on Friday, Oct. 9th, what you just imagined is really going to happen--and ... more
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Houston TX (SPX) Oct 06, 2009New global color maps reveal provocative patterns on the surfaces of Saturn's five innermost large icy satellites: Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, and Rhea. These new maps are being presented in a report by Dr. Paul Schenk of Houston's Lunar and Planetary Institute at the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Puerto Rico. The new maps reveal complex global color patterns on each ... more 
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 06, 2009The Team c-base Open Moon, a German group that includes physicians, businessmen, and engineers, has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to the Moon a privately funded spacecraft capable of completing a series of exploration and transmission tasks as outlin ... more  
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 02, 2009China's first Mars probe mission will be delayed because of Russia's decision to postpone the launch of its mission to the Martian moon Phobos from next month to the year 2011. Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission had been slated to lift off aboard a Zenith rocket in October on a three-year mission to study Phobos and return soil samples to Earth. Yinghuo-1 orbiter was set to be launched with the ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 28, 2009On certain nights, an arresting green line pierces the sky above NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It's a laser directed at the moon, visible when the air is humid. No, we're not repelling an invasion. Instead, we're tracking our own spacecraft. 28 times per second, engineers at NASA Goddard fire a laser that travels about 250,000 miles to hit the minivan-sized Lunar ... more 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Sept 25, 2009India on Friday hailed the discovery of water on the moon as a triumph for its lunar programme as the country aims to cement its reputation as a serious player in the space industry. The mood among India's space scientists has gone from disappointment last month when its Chandrayaan-1 satellite mission was prematurely aborted to jubilation with news of a major discovery made in partnership ... more
College Park MD (SPX) Sep 25, 2009New data from the Deep Impact spacecraft and the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an instrument aboard India's recently ended Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, provide, for the first time, clear evidence that water exists on the surface of the Moon. "The Deep Impact observations of the Moon not only unequivocally confirm the presence of OH/H2O on the lunar surface, but also reveal that the entire ... more |
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