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New remote sensing technique could bring key planetary mineral into focus
Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)
"Olivine is understood to be a major component in the interiors of rocky planets," said Christopher Kremer, a Ph.D. candidate at Brown University and lead autho...
A new mineral from the Moon could explain what happens in the Earth's mantle
Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)
The new mineral donwilhelmsite is the first high-pressure mineral found in meteorites with application for terrestrial sediments dragged deep into the Earth man...
VIPER Rover will get driving headlights
Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)
In the extremes of light and dark found on the Moon, shadowed and lit areas are in such high contrast that any contours in the landscape are effectively invisib...
NASA Crowdsources with HeroX to Find Solutions for Unloading Lunar Goods
Oct 30, 2020 (SPX)
The goal of NASA's Artemis program is to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024. By the next decade, NASA hopes to establish a...
Testing lunar 4G operations
Oct 30, 2020 (ESA)
NASA has selected Nokia Bell Labs to develop a lunar communications network based on cellular 4G 'Long Term Evolution' (LTE) technology, potentially enabling li...
AiRANACULUS to demonstrate feasibility of an advanced Lunar comms system
Oct 30, 2020 (SPX)
The contract contributes to the NASA Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) program's objectives to dramatically increase the performance, efficiency and rel...
Positive signs for Europe as ESA goes forward to the Moon
Oct 28, 2020 (ESA)
It confirms ESA's commitment to delivering at least two European Service Modules that provide electricity, water, oxygen and nitrogen to NASA's Orion spacecraft...
ESA seeking dust-proof materials for lunar return
Oct 28, 2020 (ESA)
"The idea came up that as ESA's going back to the Moon we should look into harnessing the many innovations in the materials field since the Apollo spacesuits we...
NASA, European Space Agency Formalize Artemis Gateway Partnership
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
The agreement is a critical part of NASA's efforts to lead an unprecedented global coalition to the Moon. Additional Gateway agreements with other international...
Tiny moon shadows may harbor hidden stores of ice
Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)
"If you can imagine standing on the surface of the moon near one of its poles, you would see shadows all over the place," said Paul Hayne, assistant professor i...
China's lunar rover travels 565.9 meters on moon's far side
Oct 27, 2020 (XNA)
The lander was switched to dormant mode at 9:40 pm Friday (Beijing Time) as scheduled, and the rover, Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit-2), at 12 noon Friday, said the center...
SOFIA discovers water on sunlit surface of Moon
Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)
SOFIA has detected water molecules (H2O) in Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from Earth, located in the Moon's southern hemisphere. Previous o...
Small water ice reservoirs dot the Lunar surface
Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)
"Future lunar rovers may have a hard time driving into a large dark crater with extremely low temperatures. Small cold traps are far more accessible," Planetary...
NASA, Human Lunar Lander Companies Complete Key Artemis Milestone
Oct 23, 2020 (SPX)
Since then, NASA has worked closely with the Blue Origin-led team, Dynetics, and SpaceX to better understand their human landing system proposals and approach f...
Eagles to land first student project on Moon to snap selfie of Lunar landing
Oct 22, 2020 (SPX)
Ahead of the United States' crewed return to the moon in 2024, the Nova-C Lunar Lander will launch a science and technology payload to a valley in the Ocean of ...
Intuitive Machines wins order to search for ice at Lunar south pole
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
The ice drilling mission is the Houston-based company's second Moon contract award under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. "Laying the...
NASA selects intuitive machines to land water-measuring payload on the Moon
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
The delivery of the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment known as PRIME-1 will help NASA search for ice at the Moon's South Pole and, for the first time, harve...
HeroX helps NASA advance Lunar exploration with a miniaturized payload prototype challenge
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
The challenge seeks to develop miniature payload prototypes that can be sent to the Moon to help fill gaps in lunar knowledge. Lunar resources are potentially a...
Magnetic fields on the moon are the remnant of an ancient core dynamo
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
One theory is that they are in some way remnants of an ancient core magnetic field. Possibly similar to what can still be observed on Earth today. Here, the cor...
Faces Behind NASA's Artemis Gateway - Sharada Vitalpur and Lindsey Ingram
Oct 15, 2020 (SPX)
Meet Sharada Vitalpur, Communication and Tracking Systems Manager for Gateway From satellites to Gateway, Sharada Vitalpur has come a long way to fulfill her dr...
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