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Chandrayaan-2 Payloads To Be Decided Next MonthBangalore, India (PTI) Jul 28, 2010 The mission goal of India's second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, will be clearer next month when a meeting will decide upon the payloads, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) director S.K. Shivakumar, said here on Monday. A meeting here on August 3 would finalise Chandrayaan-2's scientific instruments, which together would weigh between 30 and 35 kg, said Dr. Shivakumar in a lecture on "Chandrayaan-Deep Space Network," organised by the Institute ... read more |
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London, Canada (SPX) Jun 30, 2010Western professor Gordon Osinski (Earth Sciences, Physics AND Astronomy) is leading a Canadian science team in developing a robotic arm that will potentially be used by NASA to obtain rock samples from the moon. The MoonRise project (Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin Sample Return Mission), led by Washington University (St.Louis, MO) professor Bradley Jolliff, is one of three contracts awarded ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 29, 2010Senator Jeff Sessions, last week , said Senators whose states will lose private sector jobs related to new NASA's space plans would like an independent legal opinion on whether or not NASA can order the winding down of the Constellation program. Senator Sessions and others seem to think "this is clearly a violation of the congressional intent." President Obama has instructed NASA to redire ... more 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 25, 2010All cameras are susceptible to scattered light. You may have seen scattered light in pictures you have taken looking towards the Sun. Sunlight reflects off the optics and sometimes off the structure of the lens, and often appears as a gradient of brightness across the image. Attaching a baffle to your camera, like we did with the LROC Wide and Narrow Angle Cameras, can minimize this effect. ... more |
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Water Content Of Moon's Interior UnderestimatedWashington DC (SPX) Jun 15, 2010 NASA-funded scientists estimate from recent research that the volume of water molecules locked inside minerals in the moon's interior could exceed the amount of water in the Great Lakes here on Earth. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, along with other scientists across the nation, determined that the water was likely present very early in the moon's formation history as hot magma started to cool and crystallize. This finding means water is native to the ... read more |
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