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How Light Looks Different on the Moon and What NASA Is Doing About It
Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)
On Earth, shadows in otherwise bright environments are dimly lit with indirect light from these tiny reflections. That lighting provides enough detail that we g...
Scientists spy new evidence of water in the moon's interior
Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists had assumed for years that the interior of the Moon had been largely depleted of water and other volatile compounds. That began to change in 2008, wh...
Moon could be wetter than thought, say scientists
Jul 24, 2017 (AFP)
"We found the signature of the lunar interior water globally using satellite data," Shuai Li, co-author of a study by scientists at Brown University in the Unit...
Living in Deep Space: Lockheed Martin to Build Full-Scale Prototype of NASA Cislunar Habitat
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
Under a public-private partnership, NASA recently awarded Lockheed Martin a Phase II contract for the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (Next...
Neil Armstrong moon bag sells for $1.8mn in New York
Jul 20, 2017 (AFP)
The outer decontamination bag, which was flown to the moon on Apollo 11 and still carries traces of moon dust and small rock, was sold on the 48th anniversary o...
How to rescue a Moonwalker in need
Jul 07, 2017 (ESA)
Four 'aquanauts', including ESA astronaut Pedro Duque and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, took part in NASA's 22nd Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO-...
Japan reveals plans to put a man on moon by 2030
Jun 30, 2017 (AFP)
This is the first time the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has said it aims to send an astronaut beyond the International Space Station, an agency spo...
Japanese Space Agency Proposes Plan to Send Astronauts to Moon
Jun 29, 2017 (Sputnik)
According to the NHK broadcaster, the JAXA proposed the plan to the panel of the country's Science Ministry responsible for discussion of Tokyo's efforts in the...
Russian aerospace firm to cooperate with China on Lunar exploration missions
Jun 16, 2017 (Sputnik)
Xu Yansong, the head of the International Cooperation Department of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), said on Wednesday that China and Russia were...
New NELIOTA project detects flashes from lunar impacts
Jun 12, 2017 (ESA)
Studies such as NELIOTA are important because Earth and its Moon are constantly bombarded by natural space debris. Most of this material ranges in size from dus...
Cube Quest Challenge Team Spotlight: Cislunar Explorers
May 25, 2017 (SPX)
"The core concept behind our work is using water as rocket fuel," said project manager Kyle Patrick Doyle. "It's something that we've been looking at for a long...
Winning plans for CubeSats to the Moon
May 12, 2017 (ESA)
These miniature missions variously involve probing lunar radiation, surveying the radio sky over the far side of the Moon, mapping minerals and frozen gases wit...
Printing bricks from moondust using the Sun's heat
May 04, 2017 (ESA)
"We took simulated lunar material and cooked it in a solar furnace," explains materials engineer Advenit Makaya, overseeing the project for ESA. "This was done ...
NASA selects ASU's ShadowCam for moon mission
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
The instrument, named ShadowCam, will be a U.S. contribution to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute's (KARI) first lunar exploration mission, Korea Pathfinde...
Russia, US Ready to Give You a Lift to Moon Orbit, ISS
Apr 27, 2017 (Sputnik)
In August, Solntsev said Energia was preparing a Moon expedition on board an upgraded Soyuz spacecraft, with eight space tourists interested in a trip. Renowned...
India dreams of harvesting lunar dust to power fusion rectors
Apr 24, 2017 (Sputnik)
"All of India's energy requirements could be met through Helium 3 mined from the moon. By 2030, this processing target will be met, he said while delivering the...
Swedish Institute of Space Physics goes back to the Moon
Apr 23, 2017 (SPX)
The ASAN instrument will be launched at the end of 2018 onboard the Chinese Chang'e 4 mission to the Moon. Chang'e 4 consists of an orbiter, lander and rover. C...
NASA Scientists Find Dynamo at Lunar Core May Have Formed Magnetic Field
Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)
Magnetized lunar rocks returned to Earth during the Apollo missions established that the moon once had a magnetic field. The moon's magnetic field lasted for mo...
How a young-looking lunar volcano hides its true age
Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)
While orbiting the Moon in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 photographed a strange geological feature - a bumpy, D-shaped depression about two miles long and a mile ...
Surviving the long dark night of the Moon
Mar 27, 2017 (ESA)
Designers of future Moon missions and bases have to contend with a chilling challenge: how might their creations endure the fortnight-long lunar night? ESA has ...
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