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Google has updated their lunar exploration tool with content from NASA Ames researchers, including high-resolution immersive panoramas from every Apollo landing site (available in context for the first time), historic audio clips, re-projected high-resolution charts, surface imagery, an...

This week’s full moon occurs on June 22nd, one day after the summer solstice on June 21st. The full moon will hang lower in the sky than any full moon since June 1987. The Moon's Nutation Cycle, or the time it takes the moon's nodes to complete one (retrograde) revolution, of 18.61 years along the...

NASA has given the award of launch services for the LRO mission to Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services Inc. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during a launch window that opens on Oct. 31, 2008. Once launched, payload instru...

'Moon Rock' Displayed In Dutch Museum Is Really Petrified Wood The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood. Rijksmuseum spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the...

A 400-year-old set of "moon maps" created by a little-known Englishman are to go on display to mark the launch of the International Year of Astronomy. Experts say they prove their creator - Thomas Harriot - beat Galileo to become the first man to view the moon through a telescope. The Itali...

When astronauts land on the Moon in the not too distant future, it's possible they will be visiting an outpost where they can pick up some fuel and a refreshing container of liquid. That outpost won't be offering the 64-ounce Big Gulp soft drinks that you find at many of the convenience stores across th...

Germany Proposes Unmanned Moon Landing for 2015 Germany should try to launch an unmanned mission to the moon by around 2015, the government official in charge of aerospace matters said. Economy Ministry State Secretary Peter Hintze said a German moon landing could be feasible "within the ne...

The Romanian Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Association (ARCA) will launch in October from a Black Sea platform the country's first space rocket dubbed Helen, in what is the final rehearsal for a 30 million dollar astronautic contest for landing a privately built spacecraft on the moon, initiated...

Without knowing the conditions of early Earth, researchers havent been able to answer some fundamental questions of earth science: when the Earths magnetic field originated, how the Earths relationship with the moon changes over time, and when oxygen first appeared in the atmosphere (and, inci...

Lunar swirls are strange markings on the Moon that resemble swirling cream in coffee. They seem to be curly-cues of pale moondust, twisting and turning across the lunar surface for dozens of miles. Each swirl is utterly flat and protected by a magnetic field. One of the swirls, [url=http://www...

A tiny piece of rock taken from the moon during the last manned mission in 1972 is to be on display at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology beginning Thursday. Read more

India and the United States are finalising the formalities to incorporate a US payload in India's first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayan-1. Both the countries have to sign a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the US Natio...

Dwellings in colonies on the moon one day may be built with new, highly durable bricks developed by students from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Initially designed to construct a dome, the building material is composed of a lunar rock-like material mixed with powdered aluminium that...

"Moonbots" Challenges Parent-Child Teams to Conduct Google Lunar X Prize Missions With Lego Robots The X PRIZE Foundation, Google Inc., LEGO Systems, National Instruments, and Wired's GeekDad will announce "MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge"...

A fragment of moon rock arrived in South Africa, on Monday morning, when South African Airways (SAA) first officer Arthur Phaswana landed the plane carrying a piece of lunar rock from the science and space research centre Nasa. The 110-gram Apollo 17 Lunar Sample 70215, 41 (007) from Houston-b...

Orbital Sciences Corporation today announced that the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Centre (SMC) recently ordered the first Minotaur V launch vehicle under the companys Orbital/Suborbital Program-2 (OSP-2) contract. The Minotaur V rocket will propel NASAs Lunar Atmosphere and Dus...

On July 21, 1969, after landing in the Moon's Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted an American flag and spent almost three hours exploring the lunar terrain. The Moon's airless, inert surface should preserve their footprints and equipment for millions o...

The Indian Space Research Organisation will finalise details of Chandrayaan-II in six months, said Chairman G. Madhavan Nair. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the 58th International Astronautical Congress here, he said the ISRO would consider sending a lander-rover, which can move on t...

According to Chinese state media, a lunar satellite will transmit 30 pieces of Chinese music to Earth next year. The satellite, which has a budget of 1.4-billion yuan, is part of China's three-phase lunar project, and is designed to obtain three-dimensional images of the moon's surface and an...

Do you have a favourite phase of the moon? Romantics will almost certainly be drawn to the full moon, but during its 29.5-day cycle, going from one new moon to the next, our satellite offers up plenty of other choices. There's the precise semicircle of a first or last quarter moon. And maybe you've be...

China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, will be launched in October 2010, a top space scientist said Thursday. Ye Peijian, chief designer of the nation's first moon probe, told the third International Conference on Space Information Technology in Beijing yesterday that the country's lunar land...

Nearly 40 years after the Apollo astronauts first brought samples of the Moon to Earth for study, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis are leading an effort to return to the Moon for samples that could unlock secrets of the early Solar System. Known as MoonRise, the proposed Moon miss...

Moon Zoo - with your help, we hope to study the lunar surface in unprecedented detail. Read more

Pupils at St Sampson's School in Cricklade were able to touch the moon when they returned to school this term. Pupils handled meteorites among the rare samples of moon rock and lunar dust that landed at the junior school. [url=http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/4646926.The_moon_has_la...

The name of the hypothesized protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek goddess Theia, a Titan who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene. According to the giant impact hypothesis, Theia formed along with the other planets of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago, and was approximately th...

Challenger Astronauts Memorialised on the Moon Names for seven craters in the Apollo basin have been provisionally approved by the International Astronomical Union to honour the seven Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts. [url=http://lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov/articles/challenger-astr...

The Advanced Moon Micro-Imager Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, has photographed the Hadley Rille on the south-east edge of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. AMIE obtained this image from an altitude of about 2000 kilometres. It covers an area of about 100 kilomet...

Phases of the Moon A lunar phase or phase of the moon is the appearance of the illuminated (lighted) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually on Earth. The lunar phases change cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing relative positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun...

The Moon Expand (66kb, 1024 x 768) Time 5:20 GMT, 08 Sept, 07 Exposure: 10 sec

The Moon through clouds Project one-Life beyond Earth Video by : Victor Lupu Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm Mount: CG5 (EQ5) Device: Sony CX105 Filter: No Date: 12/06/2011 Location: Baia Mare, Romania Music :Pro...

The Werner X is a famous optical phenomena on the Moon, which appears like an chiaroscuro 'X' shape, when the lunar sunrise falls on the rims and ridges between the craters La Caille, Purbach, and Blanchinus. The Werner X (Also called Lunar X and the Purbach Cross) is visible each month for approximat...

Hotspot found on Moon's far side Scientists have found evidence of volcanoes on the far side of the Moon. The new discovery, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience is a rare example of volcanism on the lunar surface not associated with asteroid, meteor or comet impact events. Until now the best kn...

Half-Century Old Moon Mystery Solved In the early morning hours of Nov. 15, 1953, an amateur astronomer in Oklahoma photographed what he believed to be a massive, white-hot fireball of vaporised rock rising from the center of the Moon's face. If his theory was right, Dr. Leon Stuart would be the fir...

The Moon's soil is impregnated with nitrogen that came from Earth's atmosphere, according to Japanese scientists. The researchers, giving a new interpretative spin on analysis of lunar soil brought home by the Apollo missions, believe that the nitrogen escaped from Earth's upper atmosphere...

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Lunar Google Google Moon (Preview)	Computers	9	1833	Dec 28 21:01 2011 by Blobrana
Google has updated their lunar exploration tool with content from NASA Ames researchers, including high-resolution immersive panoramas from every Apollo landing site (available in context for the first time), historic audio clips, re-projected high-resolution charts, surface imagery, an...
Lunar Moon's Nutation Cycle (Preview)	Events	1	1738	Jun 23 08:15 2005 by Anonymous
This week’s full moon occurs on June 22nd, one day after the summer solstice on June 21st. The full moon will hang lower in the sky than any full moon since June 1987. The Moon's Nutation Cycle, or the time it takes the moon's nodes to complete one (retrograde) revolution, of 18.61 years along the...
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NASA has given the award of launch services for the LRO mission to Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services Inc. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during a launch window that opens on Oct. 31, 2008. Once launched, payload instru...
Lunar Dutch 'moon rock' (Preview)	General news	3	1568	Sep 13 21:40 2009 by Blobrana
'Moon Rock' Displayed In Dutch Museum Is Really Petrified Wood The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood. Rijksmuseum spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the...
Lunar Thomas Harriot moon maps (Preview)	Astronomy News	8	2503	Jul 25 20:47 2014 by Blobrana
A 400-year-old set of "moon maps" created by a little-known Englishman are to go on display to mark the launch of the International Year of Astronomy. Experts say they prove their creator - Thomas Harriot - beat Galileo to become the first man to view the moon through a telescope. The Itali...
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When astronauts land on the Moon in the not too distant future, it's possible they will be visiting an outpost where they can pick up some fuel and a refreshing container of liquid. That outpost won't be offering the 64-ounce Big Gulp soft drinks that you find at many of the convenience stores across th...
Lunar German Lunar lander (Preview)	Mission News	1	1240	Aug 13 15:16 2009 by Blobrana
Germany Proposes Unmanned Moon Landing for 2015 Germany should try to launch an unmanned mission to the moon by around 2015, the government official in charge of aerospace matters said. Economy Ministry State Secretary Peter Hintze said a German moon landing could be feasible "within the ne...
Lunar Balloon Rocket Helen (Preview)	Mission News	1	1234	Nov 5 22:32 2009 by Blobrana
The Romanian Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Association (ARCA) will launch in October from a Black Sea platform the country's first space rocket dubbed Helen, in what is the final rehearsal for a 30 million dollar astronautic contest for landing a privately built spacecraft on the moon, initiated...
moon Lunar Moon geology ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Astronomy News	16	3726	May 17 19:33 2012 by Blobrana
Without knowing the conditions of early Earth, researchers havent been able to answer some fundamental questions of earth science: when the Earths magnetic field originated, how the Earths relationship with the moon changes over time, and when oxygen first appeared in the atmosphere (and, inci...
moon Lunar Earth moon The Moon ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 15 ) (Preview)	Solar System	148	17972	Nov 9 22:10 2015 by Blobrana
Lunar swirls are strange markings on the Moon that resemble swirling cream in coffee. They seem to be curly-cues of pale moondust, twisting and turning across the lunar surface for dozens of miles. Each swirl is utterly flat and protected by a magnetic field. One of the swirls, [url=http://www...
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A tiny piece of rock taken from the moon during the last manned mission in 1972 is to be on display at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology beginning Thursday. Read more
ISRO Lunar Chandrayan-1 ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 11 ) (Preview)	Mission News	109	13920	Oct 21 23:01 2011 by Blobrana
India and the United States are finalising the formalities to incorporate a US payload in India's first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayan-1. Both the countries have to sign a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the US Natio...
Lunar Lunar colonies ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Mission News	15	4720	Jun 22 11:44 2017 by Blobrana
Dwellings in colonies on the moon one day may be built with new, highly durable bricks developed by students from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Initially designed to construct a dome, the building material is composed of a lunar rock-like material mixed with powdered aluminium that...
Lunar LEGO Moonbots (Preview)	Mission News	2	1149	May 15 09:09 2011 by Blobrana
"Moonbots" Challenges Parent-Child Teams to Conduct Google Lunar X Prize Missions With Lego Robots The X PRIZE Foundation, Google Inc., LEGO Systems, National Instruments, and Wired's GeekDad will announce "MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge"...
Lunar Moon Rock Exhibition (Preview)	Events	2	1426	Aug 18 14:17 2009 by Blobrana
A fragment of moon rock arrived in South Africa, on Monday morning, when South African Airways (SAA) first officer Arthur Phaswana landed the plane carrying a piece of lunar rock from the science and space research centre Nasa. The 110-gram Apollo 17 Lunar Sample 70215, 41 (007) from Houston-b...
Lunar LADEE Mission ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Mission News	15	2428	Apr 18 13:04 2014 by Blobrana
Orbital Sciences Corporation today announced that the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Centre (SMC) recently ordered the first Minotaur V launch vehicle under the companys Orbital/Suborbital Program-2 (OSP-2) contract. The Minotaur V rocket will propel NASAs Lunar Atmosphere and Dus...
Apollo Lunar Apollo 11 landing site (Preview)	Mission News	7	1861	Jul 19 23:27 2011 by Blobrana
On July 21, 1969, after landing in the Moon's Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted an American flag and spent almost three hours exploring the lunar terrain. The Moon's airless, inert surface should preserve their footprints and equipment for millions o...
Lunar Chandrayaan-II ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	Mission News	22	4865	Jun 1 20:38 2013 by Blobrana
The Indian Space Research Organisation will finalise details of Chandrayaan-II in six months, said Chairman G. Madhavan Nair. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the 58th International Astronautical Congress here, he said the ISRO would consider sending a lander-rover, which can move on t...
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Lunar Phases of the moon (Preview)	General news	2	1152	Mar 11 08:20 2015 by Blobrana
Do you have a favourite phase of the moon? Romantics will almost certainly be drawn to the full moon, but during its 29.5-day cycle, going from one new moon to the next, our satellite offers up plenty of other choices. There's the precise semicircle of a first or last quarter moon. And maybe you've be...
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Moon Zoo - with your help, we hope to study the lunar surface in unprecedented detail. Read more
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Pupils at St Sampson's School in Cricklade were able to touch the moon when they returned to school this term. Pupils handled meteorites among the rare samples of moon rock and lunar dust that landed at the junior school. [url=http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/4646926.The_moon_has_la...
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Lunar Lunar Craters (Preview)	The Moon	2	1172	Oct 13 15:29 2016 by Blobrana
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Lunar Hadley Rille (Preview)	Solar System	1	1328	Apr 16 11:35 2011 by Blobrana
The Advanced Moon Micro-Imager Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, has photographed the Hadley Rille on the south-east edge of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. AMIE obtained this image from an altitude of about 2000 kilometres. It covers an area of about 100 kilomet...
Lunar Lunar phase (Preview)	The Moon	1	664	Oct 25 13:54 2011 by Blobrana
Phases of the Moon A lunar phase or phase of the moon is the appearance of the illuminated (lighted) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually on Earth. The lunar phases change cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing relative positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun...
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The Moon through clouds Project one-Life beyond Earth Video by : Victor Lupu Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm Mount: CG5 (EQ5) Device: Sony CX105 Filter: No Date: 12/06/2011 Location: Baia Mare, Romania Music :Pro...
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The Werner X is a famous optical phenomena on the Moon, which appears like an chiaroscuro 'X' shape, when the lunar sunrise falls on the rims and ridges between the craters La Caille, Purbach, and Blanchinus. The Werner X (Also called Lunar X and the Purbach Cross) is visible each month for approximat...
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