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LCROSS Confirms Water on the Moon
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
11/15/09 |
| Preliminary data from NASA’s LCROSS mission indicates that water ice is present in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. LCROSS crashed into the Cabeus crater on October 9, creating a plume of material. Water ice could be a vital resource for future human explorers. |
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Discoveries in the Deep
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
11/12/09 |
| Scientists from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have been using Pavilion Lake as a testing ground for the future human exploration of other worlds. |
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A Smashing End to LCROSS
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
10/10/09 |
| NASA's LCROSS mission created twin impacts on the moon's surface early Friday morning. The planned impacts in the Cabeus crater at the moon's south pole were performed in order to search for water ice. If water ice is present on the moon, it could be an invaluable resource for future explorers. |
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Water on the Moon
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
09/25/09 |
| Using a NASA instrument housed on the Indian Chandrayyan-1 satellite, scientists have solved an Apollo-era mystery about water on the Moon. The discovery could have profound implications for future human explorers on our nearest celestial neighbor. |
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LCROSS Crater Crash
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
09/13/09 |
| NASA has announced that Cabeus A will be the target crater for the LCROSS dual impacts next month. The LCROSS mission will search for water ice in the permanently shadowed lunar crater by sending its spent upper-stage rocket on a collision course with the Moon's surface. |
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Early End to India's Moon Mission
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
09/04/09 |
| India has lost contact with the lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1. The loss came less than a week after the spacecraft teamed up with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for an experiment to test for water ice on the Moon. Water ice could prove to be a vital resource for lunar explorers. |
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The 40-Year-Old Dream
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
08/25/09 |
| Mark Sykes, CEO and director of the Planetary Science Institute, believes that it's time to find out if humans can permanently live and work in space. In a recent article for the Arizona Daily Star, he discussed what needs to be done to ensure that Earth-life has a future beyond its home planet. |
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Designing a Lunar Rover
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
07/28/09 |
| Researchers are preparing a robotic return to the lunar surface in preparation for future human missions. However, lunar rovers could be quite different than the Mars rovers of past years. The Moon is a much different environment than Mars, and robotic explorers on the Moon will have different research goals. |
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One Giant Leap
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
07/23/09 |
| NASA recounts the momentous events of July 1969, when humankind first set foot on another world. Apollo 11 was a seminal step in advancing human life beyond planet Earth. |
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Return to the Moon
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
07/20/09 |
| Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is NASA’s first mission to the Moon in a decade and paves the way for the return of astronauts to our satellite. Forty years after humans first walked on the Moon, the LRO mission is returning images of the historic Apollo landing sites |
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