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Looking at the volatile side of the MoonParis, France (ESA) Jun 01, 2011 Four decades after the first Moon landing, our only natural satellite remains a fascinating enigma. Specialists from Europe and the US have been looking at ESA's proposed Lunar Lander mission to find out how to seek water and other volatile resources. Europe is developing the technology for the Lunar Lander mission, a precursor voyage to the Moon in preparation for human exploration beyond low Earth orbit. "Our ambition is to see one day a European astronaut working on the Moon," says ESA's Bruno ... read more |
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 The Power of A Moon Rock Between 1969 and 1972 six Apollo missions brought back 382 kilograms (842 pounds) of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust from the lunar surface. The six space flights returned 2,200 se ... more | .. |
  The night sky in June Now, June nights are pretty cool, so you're going to need a blanket, a pillow or two, your binoculars and perhaps a warm glass of Milo or a fine red to keep warm while you stargaze. On a clear night ... more | .. |
  NASA and Hawaii Partner for Space Exploration NASA and Hawaii have agreed to collaborate on a wide range of activities to promote America's human and robotic exploration of space. The partnership also will contribute to the development of educa ... more | .. |
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 Parts of moon interior as wet as Earth's upper mantle Parts of the moon's interior contains as much water as the upper mantle of the Earth - 100 times more of the precious liquid than measured before - research from Case Western Reserve University, Car ... more | .. |
  Reaching for New Heights It is hard to imagine that just 50 years ago, a young and vibrant President challenged a worried nation to reach for the seemingly impossible goal of landing humans on the moon and returning them sa ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects OSIRIS-REx as Next New Frontiers Mission NASA has selected the University of Arizona to lead a sample-return mission to an asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx team is led by Dr. Michael Drake, Director of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planeta ... more | .. |
 Moon may have more water than believed: study The moon may have a lot more water than imagined, perhaps as much as on Earth in some parts, a study said Thursday, in a discovery that has cast doubt on long-held theories about how it was formed. ... 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
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 NASA-Funded Scientists Make Watershed Lunar Discovery A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured for the first time water from the moon in the form of tiny globules of molten rock, which have turned to glass-like material trapped within crystals. D ... more | .. |
 President Kennedy's Speech and America's Next Moonshot Moment NASA is once again charting a new course to extend humanity's presence into the solar system, developing a new heavy lift rocket and crew capsule to take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit. Thi ... more | .. |
 Twin GRAIL Spacecraft to Launch Site by Lockheed Martin 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 prepa ... more | .. |
  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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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No fences needed: GPS collars show 'virtual fencing' is next frontier of livestock grazing
Landsat study maps boreal forest shift north
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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From Quantum Physics to Coastal Resilience Brad Bartz to Present Who Turned the Power Back On at AltaSea
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 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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