Moon Exploration and Science News

May 20, 2014

Moon rover Yutu comes closer to public
Beijing (XNA) May 16, 2014
A small replica of lunar rover Yutu, the Jade Rabbit, has gone on show in Beijing. The model, half the size of the real rover, is the star of the 17th China Beijing International High-tech Expo at the China International Exhibition Center. The model was created by Chang'e Benyue Aerospace Science and Technology Co., Ltd (CBASTCL), a subsidiary of China's lunar exploration project. Mini Yutu attracted a host of admirers including Beijinger Niu Baohong who told Xinhua, "I only had some vague k ... read more

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LRO View of Earth NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) experiences 12 "earthrises" every day, however LROC (short for LRO Camera) is almost always busy imaging the lunar surface so only rarely does an opportunit ... more		Saturn in opposition tonight, will appear next to the moon Tonight, Saturn will appear in the night sky just to the lower left of the moon. ... more		Russia to begin Moon colonization in 2030 Russia will start colonizing the Moon in 2030, Izvestia daily reported on Thursday. The daily has received a draft concept of Russian lunar program developed by enterprises of the Federal Space Agen ... more
				NASA Selects Partners for US Commercial Lander Capabilities NASA announced Wednesday the selection of three U.S. companies to negotiate no-funds exchanged partnership agreements with the agency to advance lander capabilities that will enable delivery of payl ... more		SHERPA launch service deal to deploy 1200 kilo smallsat payloads Spaceflight has announced it has secured a launch service agreement to orbit its "SHERPA" hosted payload and in-space transportation system. Spaceflight's inaugural SHERPA mission will deploy up to ... more

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Astrobotic Partners With NASA To Develop Robotic Lunar Landing Capability Astrobotic Technology has announced a new partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for development of robotic lunar landing capability. Astrobotic has been sel ... more		Ganymede May Harbor 'Club Sandwich' of Oceans and Ice The largest moon in our solar system, a companion to Jupiter named Ganymede, might have ice and oceans stacked up in several layers like a club sandwich, according to new NASA-funded research that m ... more		US warship makes first call at Cambodia's Chinese-renovated naval base; Chinese coast guard rescues Philippine sailors in disputed waters Japan PM says US alliance would collapse if Tokyo ignored Taiwan crisis Russia's military chief visits troops in east Ukraine: defence ministry		NASA Seeks External Concepts for Mission to Oceanic Jovian Moon NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to science and engineering communities for ideas for a mission to Europa that could address fundamental questions of the enigmatic moon and the search ... more
				Seven Samples from the Solar System's Birth by Aaron L. Gronstal for a href="http://www.astrobio.net/">Astrobiology Magazine /a> At this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), scientists reported that, after eight painstaking ... more		John C. Houbolt, Unsung Hero of the Apollo Program, Dies at Age 95 "In the space race of the 1950s and '60s, the leading voices were rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and ... another guy. Household names included Neil Armstrong, Alan Shepard and ... oh, you know, ... more

UAV Payloads 2014, 24 - 25 June - London, UK

International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

NASA Completes LADEE Mission with Planned Impact on Moon's Surface Ground controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., have confirmed that NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft impacted the surface of the m ... more		Saturn's rings reveal how to make a moon Writing in the journal Icarus this week, Professor Carl Murray from Queen Mary's Astronomy Unit reports that recently discovered disturbances at the very edge of Saturn's outer bright A ring result ... more		World not ready for rise in extreme heat, scientists say US monster storm kills 30 Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolution		Russia plans to get a foothold in the Moon Russia plans to organize a permanent base on the moon rather than leave it after several successful missions, the Russian deputy defense minister in charge of defense and space industries said. "The ... more
				Join in the Cassini Name Game As NASA's Cassini mission approaches its 10th anniversary at Saturn, its team members back here on Earth are already looking ahead to an upcoming phase. Starting in late 2016, the Cassini spac ... more		NASA's LRO Mission and North America to Experience Total Lunar Eclipse When people in North America look up at the sky in the early morning hours of April 15, they can expect the moon to look a little different. A total lunar eclipse is expected at this time, a phenome ... more

When fantasy becomes reality: first seeds to be planted soon on Mars

NASA's Saucer-Shaped Craft Preps for Flight Test

MAVEN Solar Wind Ion Analyzer Will Look at Key Player in Mars Atmosphere Loss

Saturn returns to evening sky this weekend

Saturn's rings reveal how to make a moon

Saturn's hexagon: An amazing phenomenon

Dwarf planet 'Biden' identified in an unlikely region of our solar system

Planet X myth debunked

WISE Finds Thousands Of New Stars But No Planet X

LRO View of Earth

Saturn in opposition tonight, will appear next to the moon

Russia to begin Moon colonization in 2030

	Russian Federal Space Agency is elaborating Moon exploration program The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has created a team of specialists, which will elaborate the Moon program. The scientists plan to launch three spacecraft - two landing and one orbital - ... more		New Catalog Brings NASA Software Down to Earth From the rudimentary but effective Apollo Guidance and Navigation System that landed the first humans on the lunar landscape to the code used to manage robotic missions to explore other planets, sof ... more		The Importance of Planetary Plumes The Hubble Space Telescope is famous for finding black holes. It can pick out thousands of galaxies in a patch of sky the size of a thumbprint. The most powerful space telescope ever built, the Hubb ... more		What's so hard about counting craters? Providing a rare glimpse of the trade secrets of planetary scientists, the journal Icarus published a study this month that compared lunar crater counts by eight professionals with crowdsourced coun ... more

Quantum collapse models point to subtle limits in timekeeping accuracy

It started with a cat: How 100 years of quantum weirdness powers today's tech

Primordial magnetism offers fresh angle on the Hubble constant puzzle

Science, Discovery Channels to broadcast private race to the moon		Take the Plunge: LADEE Impact Challenge		Gravity measurements confirm subsurface ocean on Enceladus		Land a Lunar Laser Reflector Now!		New research finds 'geologic clock' that helps determine moon's age
Cassini reports sub-surface ocean on Enceladus		Scientists date Moon at 4.470 billion years		Misleading mineral may have resulted in overestimate of water in moon		A Tetrad of Lunar Eclipses		Unique camera from NASA's moon missions sold at auction

A Wet Moon

ASU camera creates stunning mosaic of moon's polar region

Expeditions to the Moon: beware of meteorites

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