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LRO Team Helps Track Laser Signals To Russian Rover MirrorGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 27, 2010 Using information provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) instrument teams, researchers at the University of California San Diego have successfully pinpointed the location of a long lost light reflector left on the lunar surface by bouncing laser signals from Earth to the Russian Lunokhod 1 retroreflector. The initial imaging of the two Russian rovers, Lunokhod 1 and 2 were made earlier this year by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team, led by Mark Robinson from Arizon ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESO) Apr 14, 2010According to the first ever infrared analysis of the atmosphere of Neptune's moon Triton, summer is in full swing in its southern hemisphere. The European observing team used ESO's Very Large Telescope and discovered carbon monoxide and made the first ground-based detection of methane in Triton's thin atmosphere. These observations revealed that the thin atmosphere varies seasonally, thick ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2010NASA's Cassini spacecraft completed its double flyby this week, swinging by Saturn's moons Titan and Dione with no maneuver in between. The spacecraft has beamed back stunning raw images of fractured terrain and craters big and small on Dione, a moon that had only been visited once before by Cassini. The Titan flyby took place April 5, and the Dione flyby took place April 7 in the UTC time ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 13, 2010The Soviet Union used U.S. photos of the Moon obtained by the secret service to plan its own lunar mission, a Russian space scientist told RIA Novosti on Monday. The race between the two superpowers to reach the surface of the Moon first was in full swing when Alexander Bazilevsky began work at the Lunar geology department of the Soviet space studies institute in Moscow. "We had to s ... more |
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ESA plans its first moon landerParis (UPI) Apr 1, 2010 The European Space Agency says it is seeking industry proposals for a lander to be used in an exploration mission to the moon's south polar region. ESA scientists said that lunar area's possible deposits of water ice, heavily cratered terrain and long periods of sunlight make it an extremely interesting target for astronauts' moon missions. The space agency says the lander will need the latest navigation technology to fly a precise course from lunar orbit to the surface and touch down sa ... read more |
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