MOON - INDO DAILY

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

This image of the Apollo 11 landing site captured from just 24 km (15 miles) above the surface provides LRO's best look yet at humanity's first venture to anoth...

Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Science Data

Mar 09, 2012 (JPL)

NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. During the next 84 da...

Magnetic moon

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA's Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly comp...

Apollo 15: Follow the Tracks

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains (26.132 degrees N, 3.634 degrees E) a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille. The goals: sampl...

Apollo 12: Pinpoint Landing on the Ocean of Storms

Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)

This image shows the remnants of not one, but two missions to the moon. Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean demonstrated that a precision lunar landi...

Looking at the Man in the Moon

Mar 07, 2012 (SPX)

Many of us see a man in the moon-a human face smiling down at us from the lunar surface. The "face," of course, is just an illusion, shaped by the dark splotche...

Lunar lander firing up for touchdown

Mar 07, 2012 (ESA)

Europe's ambition of touching down at the Moon's south pole by 2018 has been boosted by recent test firings of the craft's thrusters. The robot lander will prov...

China to launch moon-landing orbiter in 2013

Mar 06, 2012 (XNA)

China's third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, is expected to be launched next year and conduct a moon landing and lunar explorations, its designer said. Different from ...

Scientists Shed Light On Lunar Impact History

Mar 01, 2012 (SPX)

A team of researchers from the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have discovered that debris that cause...

China paces to the Moon

Feb 28, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

China announces its next manned spaceflight to be launched next summer. What are the implications for 'senior space powers'? On February 21, Chinese space offic...

SD-built camera spots tiny shifts on moon

Feb 23, 2012 (SPX)

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has found evidence that areas of the moon's surface stretched some within the past 50 million years, creating ...

Back to the Moon A Modern Redux

Feb 21, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

The moon is again in the focus of world space exploration. Recently water was discovered on the moon - something scientists did not expect to find. This could l...

X-rays illuminate the interior of the Moon

Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)

Contrary to Earth, our Moon has no active volcanoes, and the traces of its past volcanic activity date from billions of years ago. This is surprising, because r...

NASA Spacecraft Reveals Recent Geological Activity on the Moon

Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)

New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show the moon's crust is being stretched, forming minute valleys in a few small areas on th...

China publishes high-resolution full moon map

Feb 09, 2012 (XNA)

China on Monday published a full coverage map of the moon, as well as several high-resolution images of the celestial body, captured by the country's second moo...