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Moon Exploration is Not DeadSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 02, 2010 It's clear by now that America's grand plans for returning astronauts to the Moon have been quashed, at least in the short term. The Constellation program, originally created to land astronauts there by 2020, is no more. But that doesn't mean that astronauts will not return in the future, nor does it mean that lunar exploration will cease in the meantime. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is delivering wonderful images of the Moon, and uncovering new discoveries. Scientists as also still digesti ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 28, 2010NASA and the Israel Space Agency have signed a joint statement that recognizes the Israel Network for Lunar Science and Exploration, or INLSE, as an affiliate partner with the NASA Lunar Science Institute at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "NASA looks forward to working with this distinguished Israeli organization to benefit from our shared expertise and advance ... more 
Prairie View TX (SPX) Jan 19, 2010Barely two months after NASA intentionally crashed the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) into the moon's southern polar region and discovered water, faculty and student researchers from the NASA Center for Radiation Engineering and Science for Space Exploration (CRESSE) at Prairie View A and M University are already investigating how moisture content might alter the radiati ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 15, 2010Tycho Crater is an one of the most prominent craters on the moon. It appears as a bright spot in the southern highlands with rays of bright material that stretch across much of the nearside. Its prominence is not due to its size: at 85 km in diameter, it's just one among thousands of this size or larger. What really makes Tycho stand out is its relative youth. It formed recently enough tha ... more |
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Cassini Data Show Enceladus In MotionPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2010 Blobs of warm ice that periodically rise to the surface and churn the icy crust on Saturn's moon Enceladus explain the quirky heat behavior and intriguing surface of the moon's south polar region, according to a new paper using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. "Cassini appears to have caught Enceladus in the middle of a burp," said Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz and a co-author of the new paper in Nature Geoscience. "These tumultuous p ... read more |
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