News articles tagged with 'lunar'
Key process for space outpost proved on 'vomit comet' ride
— 26 Sep 2009 10:36 | AstronomyFlying high over the Gulf of Mexico, researchers from NASA and Case Western Reserve University found a key to unlocking oxygen from the surface of the moon... — full story
SMART-1 mapped crash scene of upcoming LCROSS impact
— 26 Sep 2009 10:11 | AstronomyThe European Space Agency's SMART-1 team has released an image of the future impact site of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). LCROSS will search for water... — full story
NASA instruments reveal water molecules on lunar surface
— 25 Sep 2009 15:10 | AstronomyNASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater than... — full story
C1XS success will provide new understanding of lunar surface
— 19 Sep 2009 11:03 | AstronomyOver its ten months of operation, the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) gathered data for a total of 30 solar flares, giving the most accurate measurements to date of magnesium,... — full story
Apollo 11 moon rocks still crucial 40 years later
— 18 Jul 2009 11:37 | AstronomyA lunar geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic... — full story
One small step in the search for moonwalk tapes
— 17 Jul 2009 03:31 | AstronomyThe world will get the first glimpse of what the historic Apollo 11 moonwalk really looked like thanks to the exceptional footage taken from Australian telescopes on 21 July (Australian... — full story
Apollo 11 conversations Earth didn't hear now online
— 16 Jul 2009 02:31 | AstronomyYou're in a spacecraft, on a mission to land on the moon for the first time in history, and the microphone to Earth is off. What do you say? Now you can listen in on a NASA Web site... — full story
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter transmits first moon images
— 3 Jul 2009 02:45 | AstronomyThe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on 23 June 2009. The spacecraft's two cameras, collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance... — full story
Ground-based eclipse observations yield unique insights
— 10 Jun 2009 17:00 | AstronomyEarth's optical and near-infrared transmission spectrum has been measured from ground-based observations of a recent lunar eclipse in 2008. The data, published in a paper titled 'Earth's... — full story
Researchers develop new tool to visualise past, future lunar eclipses
— 10 Jun 2009 07:16 | AstronomyLunar eclipses are well-documented throughout human history. The rare and breathtaking phenomena, which occur when the moon passes into the Earth's shadow and seemingly changes shape,... — full story