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India to launch second mission to moon by 2017
Jan 13, 2014 (XNA)
India plans to launch its second mission to moon by 2017 in the wake of the success of its maiden lunar mission. "Chandrayaan-II is a mission where we essential...
Moon rover, lander wake after lunar night
Jan 13, 2014 (XNA)
China's moon rover "Yutu" (Jade Rabbit) and the Chang'e-3 lander have just "woken up" after a period of dormancy that lasted two weeks, or one lunar night, in a...
Wake Up Yutu
Jan 06, 2014 (SPX)
After two weeks of frigid lunar night, China's Yutu Moon rover and the Chang'e-3 lander that carried it will soon awake from their slumber. Surviving the lunar ...
Chang'e-3 satellite payload APXS obtained its first spectrum of lunar regolith
Jan 03, 2014 (SPX)
The Active Particle-induced X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), carried by the Yutu rover of the Chang'e-3 satellite got its first X-ray fluorescence spectrum of lunar r...
Chang'e 3 Lander and Rover From Above
Dec 31, 2013 (SPX)
Chang'e 3 landed on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) just east of a 450 m diameter impact crater on 14 December 2013. Soon after landing, a small rover named Yutu (o...
China's moon rover sleeps through lunar night
Dec 26, 2013 (XNA)
The moon rover and lander of China's Chang'e 3 lunar probe mission will "sleep" during the lunar night, enduring extreme low temperatures on the lunar surface. ...
NASA Releases New Earthrise Simulation Video
Dec 21, 2013 (SPX)
NASA has issued a new visualization of the events leading to one of the iconic photographs of the 20th Century - Earth rising over the moon captured by the crew...
Will the Moon be carved-up?
Dec 20, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Experts forecast that the Moon will become sort of the seventh continent of Earth by the middle of the 21st century. People will reclaim the polar regions and b...
Most Chang'e-3 science tools activated
Dec 20, 2013 (XNA)
Six out of the eight pieces of scientific equipment deployed to the moon with the Chang'e-3 lunar mission have been activated by scientists and are functioning ...
China's Lunar Lander May Provide Additional Science for NASA Spacecraft
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
After sending 12 humans to the moon's surface during the Apollo Program, NASA remains committed to lunar science. Building on modern missions such as Clementine...
China plans to launch Chang'e-5 in 2017
Dec 17, 2013 (XNA)
China plans to launch lunar probe Chang'e-5 in 2017, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. "The develo...
Mining the moon is pie in the sky for China: experts
Dec 15, 2013 (AFP)
China's moon rover will survey for minerals on a dusty, barren crater named the Bay of Rainbows, but experts say there may be no pot of gold on the Earth's natu...
China's first lunar rover lands on moon
Dec 14, 2013 (AFP)
China on Saturday carried out the first soft landing on the moon since 1976, joining the United States and former Soviet Union in accomplishing the feat, which ...
Ancient crater could hold clues about moon's mantle
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from Brown University and the University of Hawaii have found some mineralogical surprises in the Moon's largest impact crater. Data from the Moon M...
Minerals in giant impact crater may be clues to moon's makeup, origin
Dec 10, 2013 (UPI)
Mineralogical discoveries in the moon's largest impact crater could yield clues to the evolution of our companion's crust and mantle, U.S. researchers say. The ...
Silent Orbit for China's Moon Lander
Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)
China's first Moon lander is in a stable orbit around that world, awaiting the command to lower its orbit and eventually descend to the surface. Judging by what...
LADEE Instruments Healthy and Ready for Science
Dec 05, 2013 (SPX)
Now in orbit around the moon, NASA's newest lunar mission has completed the commissioning phase, and its science instruments have passed their preliminary check...
China's most moon-like place
Dec 05, 2013 (XNA)
The desert of fine, soft sand ripples with low dunes and not a plant is in sight. Simmering under a ceaseless noonday sun, the Kumtag desert descends through ch...
Helping China To The Moon
Dec 01, 2013 (ESA)
Shortly after China's Chang'e-3 spacecraft departs Earth to land on the Moon, ESA's network of tracking stations will swing into action, providing crucial suppo...
Japanese firm describes proposed 'power belt' for the moon
Nov 29, 2013 (UPI)
A Japanese company has unveiled its concept of a lunar solar power generation installation that could send 13,000 continuous terawatts of power back to Earth. D...
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