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Chandrayaan-II Will Use Advanced TechnologiesNew Delhi, India (PTI) Dec 22, 2009 The next moon mission - Chandrayaan-II - will use advanced technologies, the Rajya Sabha was told today. The next moon mission will have an orbiter, a lander and rovers which use advanced technologies, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan said in a written reply. Concepts of low-cost planetary mission have been discussed at an international conference recently in Goa ... read more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Dec 22, 2009Gaia is a successor to the Hipparcos satellite launched by Arianespace in 1989. Gaia will be placed into deep space beyond lunar orbit by a Soyuz rocket launched from the Guiana Space Center (French Guiana) in 2012. The orbit will be of a Lissajous-type around the second Lagrange point (L2). Built by Astrium, Gaia will weigh about 2,100 kg at launch. Like Hipparcos, a pioneer in space-base ... more  
Los Angeles (UPI) Dec 16, 2009 It gets colder on the Earth's moon than any other place in the solar system a man-made spacecraft has measured, U.S. scientists say. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has measured temperatures in the always-shadowed craters of the moon and found it gets as low as minus 416 degrees Fahrenheit, the BBC reported Wednesday. "The moon has one of the most extreme thermal environments ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 18, 2009NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, lake-shaped basins. Cassini scientists had been looking for the glint, also known as a specular reflection, since the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn in 2004. But Saturn's northern hemisphere ... more |
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 10, 2009Scientists are looking for life in space. So far, they haven't found any life beyond Earth itself. We seem to be getting closer to discovering life somewhere else in our own solar system, with Mars, and some moons of Jupiter and Saturn being considered likely hiding spots for microbes. Could there be life closer to our home planet? Probably not, but it's worth considering what could be ... more 
Oberhausen, Germany (SPX) Dec 10, 2009The dimensions are impressive. In the spacious arena of the Gasometer Oberhausen, visitors stand under the largest Moon on Earth. The giant sculpture almost fills their entire field of vision. The balloon, with a diameter of 25 metres, appears to float in the half-light. It is a quasi-realistic reproduction of the Earth's satellite. The lighting effects show the phases of the Moon from new ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 09, 2009When the LCROSS rocket stage slammed into Cabeus crater on October 9, creating an impact plume of material that had not seen sunlight for possibly billions of years, it conclusively proved that water ice exists in the dark recesses of the Moon's polar craters. The LCROSS findings delighted William Feldman, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute. "What got me ... more |
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 Circumlunar Missions: The Missing Link   Chang'e-1 Has Blazed A New Trail In China's Deep Space Exploration  China To Launch Second Lunar Probe In 2010 |
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