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Surviving Lunar DangersSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 28, 2010 Space takes its toll on humans and equipment. Go into deep space, and the environment becomes even more hostile. Land on the Moon, and you're facing the most dangerous place humans have explored beyond our own world. Most gear that lands on the Moon is only designed to operate for short periods. Sometimes, it's just not worth keeping it functioning for a long time. In other cases, you just can't keep it running. The environment takes its toll. Today, there's nothing on the surface of the Moon that ... read more |
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 Collision Spills New Moon Secrets Scientists led by Brown University are offering the first detailed explanation of the crater formed when a NASA rocket and spacecraft slammed into the Moon last October and information about the com ... more | .. |
 NASA Awards Contract To Team FREDNET Google Lunar X PRIZE Contender Team FREDNET has been awarded a NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract at the maximum government purchase value of $10.01 million. As a recipient of this ILDD contract, Team FREDN ... more | .. |
  Microbes And Molecules Get A Space-Stress Test Astrobiologists searching for life beyond Earth need to know how well life and its building blocks fare in space. To find out, NASA will monitor a miniature "crew" of organic molecules and microbes ... more | .. |
  Planets Discovered Around Elderly Binary Star An international consortium of astronomers, including undergraduate and graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin, have discovered a planetary system consisting of at least two massive ... more | .. |
  New Cometary Phenomenon Greets Approaching Spacecraft Recent observations of comet Hartley 2 have scientists scratching their heads, while they anticipate a flyby of the small, icy world on Nov. 4. A phenomenon was recorded by imagers aboard NASA ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2010The lunar rocks brought back to the Earth by the Apollo astronauts were found to have very little water, and to be much drier than rocks on Earth. An explanation for this was that the Moon formed billions of years ago in the solar system's turbulent youth, when a Mars-sized planet crashed into Earth. The impact stripped away our planet's outer layer, sending it into orbit. The pieces later ... more 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 22, 2010NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its sophisticated suite of instruments have determined that hydrogen, mercury and other volatile substances are present in permanently shaded soils on the Moon, according to a paper published in Science. The Lunar Crater Remote Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which launched with LRO, was intentionally crashed onto the Moon's surface ... more  
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 22, 2010A European team working on the LISA Pathfinder mission has completed an extensive series of ground tests on the spacecraft's optical payload. The tests successfully achieved - for the first time on a spacecraft instrument - the incredible precision that will be required to confirm the existence of gravitational waves. The extremely precise measurements are realised by a laser interferomete ... more |
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Spring Has Sprung ... On TitanPasadena CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back dreamy raw images of Saturn's moon Titan that show the appearance of clouds around the moon's midsection. These bright clouds likely appeared because the moon is changing seasons and spring has arrived in Titan's northern hemisphere. The images were taken from about 2.5 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) away from Titan on Oct. 18, 2010, and also show the faint etchings of Saturn's rings. One of the new raw images also features a cameo from t ... read more |
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