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May 25, 2011
MOON DAILY
Twin GRAIL Spacecraft to Launch Site by Lockheed Martin
Denver CO (SPX) May 24, 2011
NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft were delivered by its builder Lockheed Martin to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on May 20. The two vehicles will undergo four months of final testing and processing in preparation for launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a United Launch Alliance Delta II Heavy launch vehicle in early September. The lunar orbiters will fly 30 miles (50 kilometers) above the surface of the moon in precision formation to determine the structure of the lunar interior from crust to c ... read more

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JOVIAN DREAMS

Galileo Data Reveal Magma Ocean Under Jupiter Moon
New data analysis from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten magma beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. The finding heralds the first ... more
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MOON DAILY

A Wrinkly Old Reveal Clues To Its Past
Written on the moon's weary face are the damages it has endured for the past 4-1/2 billion years. From impact craters to the dark plains of maria left behind by volcanic eruptions, the scars are all ... more
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MOON DAILY

MoonBots Challenges Teams to Conduct Lunar Missions with LEGO Robots
The X PRIZE Foundation and the LEGO Group has announced MoonBots 2.0: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO MINDSTORMS Challenge. This second annual contest will challenge teams of youth to design, program, a ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

NASA's Galileo reveals magma 'ocean' beneath surface of Jupiter's moon
A new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft has revealed that beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is an "ocean" of molten or partially molten magma. The finding, from a ... more
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MOON DAILY

Earth's Nearest Neighbor Within Reach
NASA has created a new interactive web-based tool that incorporates observations from past and current lunar missions creating one of the most comprehensive lunar research websites to date. Th ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Aquarius to Illuminate Links Between Salt and Climate
When NASA's salt-seeking Aquarius instrument ascends to the heavens this June, the moon above its launch site at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base won't be in the seventh house, and Jupiter's l ... more
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MOON DAILY

Space Adventures proposes modified Soyuz TMA for Lunar tourists
U.S. Space Adventures, the only company currently offering tourist orbital spaceflights, has offered to equip the Russian Soyuz TMA spaceship with additional living space for eight-day commercial fl ... more
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Airbus and Hisdesat extend deal to market next generation PAZ-2 radar imagery
NASA backs studies to boost hypersonic flight testing
New axis grid links complex earth data in space and time
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SATURN DAILY

A Water Ocean on Titan
Oddities in the rotation of Saturn's largest moon Titan might add to growing evidence that it harbors an underground ocean, researchers suggest. Titan, which is larger than Mercury, is the only worl ... more
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MOON DAILY

India Eyeing Collaboration With JPL In 2016 NASA Lunar Mission
India could be part of the 2016 NASA Lunar Mission with its space agency ISRO mulling a collaboration with the US-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory on study of farther side of the moon. "We are ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Titan-Like Exoplanets
A new study says that worlds that orbit red dwarfs, and even rogue planets with no stars to call home, might have surface oceans loaded with organic compounds, making them similar to Saturn's moon T ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Scientists Find New Type of Mineral in Historic Meteorite
NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named "Wassonite" in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica in Dec ... more
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MOON DAILY

BRP To Contribute To Canadian Moon And Mars Exploration Programs
BRP, in cooperation with the Centre de technologies avancees BRP-Universite de Sherbrooke (CTA), will develop the chassis and locomotion systems for a Lunar Exploration Light Rover and a Mars Explor ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Report Provides NASA With Direction For Next 10 Years Of Space Research
During the past 60 years, humans have built rockets, walked on the moon and explored the outer reaches of space with probes and telescopes. During these trips in space, research has been conducted t ... more
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MOON DAILY

Naveen Jain Co-Founder And Chairman Of Moon Express
Naveen Jain shared with colleagues at the annual Explorers Club Awards Dinner in New York that he is Co-Founder and Chairman of Moon Express, Inc., winner of a $10M NASA commercial lunar contract an ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Titan Shaped By Weather Not Ice Volcanoes
Have the surface and belly of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon, Titan, recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling cauldron with ice volcanoes, or has this distant moon gone cold? In a newly published anal ... more
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No fences needed: GPS collars show 'virtual fencing' is next frontier of livestock grazing
Landsat study maps boreal forest shift north
Pakistan's capital picks concrete over trees, angering residents
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SPACE TRAVEL

Deep-Space Travel Could Create Heart Woes For Astronauts
Astronauts anticipate more trips to the moon and manned missions to Mars. But exposure to cosmic radiation outside the Earth's magnetic field could be detrimental to their arteries, according to a s ... more
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MOON DAILY

Project Morpheus To Begin Testing At NASA's Johnson Space Center
Neighbors of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston may notice some loud noises coming from the 1,600-acre site in the coming weeks. Johnson's Engineering Directorate is ready to begin testing ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA Announces Winners Of 18th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race
NASA has announced the winners of the 18th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race - and it's Puerto Rico's year. Teams representing Teodoro Aguilar Mora Vocational High School of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, sna ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Scientists Find New Type Of Mineral In Historic Meteorite
NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named "Wassonite" in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica in Dec ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Frozen Comet Had A Watery Past
The discovery of minerals requiring liquid water for their formation challenges the paradigm of comets as "dirty snowballs" frozen in time. For the first time, scientists have found convincing evide ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

SpaceX Antes Up With Falcon Heavy
Elon Musk, CEO and chief rocket designer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has unveiled the dramatic final specifications and launch date for the Falcon Heavy, the world's largest rocket. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Keeps Rolling Along
Three and a half years after launch, Dawn continues its travels around the sun, maneuvering to take the same orbital path as Vesta. Following its usual pattern, the spacecraft has spent most of the ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

A Reusable Manned Deep - Space Craft
Almost a year after Launchspace contributing editors suggested an exploration vehicle that would take crews from low Earth orbit to many solar system destinations such as asteroids and lunar circumn ... more
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From Quantum Physics to Coastal Resilience Brad Bartz to Present Who Turned the Power Back On at AltaSea
Anthropic unveils new AI model as OpenAI rivalry heats up
EU nations back chemical recycling for plastic bottles
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