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Science News
July 15, 2006 |
Science Safari: A Meteoroid Hits the Moon This NASA Web page describes observations of a recent meteoroid impact on the moon, which created a new crater.   |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2007 |
Earth & Moon Pro Pack by e frontier The pack includes 3-D video models of the Earth and moon, the International Space Station, and the Hubble Space Telescope, which work with the company's animation software, Poser. |
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Water On The Moon NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water. |
Popular Mechanics
October 24, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Scientists Fixing Hubble Contend With Antiquated Computers NASA scientists trying to find out what went wrong during last week's repair of the Hubble Space Telescope find themselves dealing with 486 processors and other outdated computer technology. |
Science News
November 12, 2005 |
Moon Zoom A link to access software developed by NASA that allows you to interactively browse three-dimensional images of the moon. |
Chemistry World
August 2009
Richard Corfield |
One giant leap NASA's Apollo missions answered many questions about the Moon - and as NASA unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will again play a prominent role |
Geotimes
July 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Jupiter's Junior Red Spot Jupiter's famed Great Red Spot has a new companion. |
Popular Mechanics
November 13, 2009
Jeremy Jacquot |
NASA Confirms There is Water on the Moon--But Where Did It Come From? By obtaining core samples like the ice cores collected by scientists in the Antarctic, it will be possible for scientists to study the climatic record of the moon and draw comparisons with the Earth's. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
Science News
May 6, 2000 |
A Hubble Decade To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 10th anniversary, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has created a new Web site devoted to the Earth-orbiting telescope and its spectacular images.... |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
The 5 Most Powerful Telescopes, and 5 That Will Define the Future of Astronomy Today's best telescopes are astounding feats -- and astronomers are improving them constantly. |
Geotimes
May 2005
Naomi Lubick |
NASA on Deck As NASA prepares for the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster on Feb. 2, 2003, the space agency remains in a transition stage. |
InternetNews
August 20, 2009 |
A Peek at NASA's Faster Connection to the Moon One giant leap for the U.S. space agency: 100Mbps connectivity from the Earth. |
Chemistry World
July 21, 2010
James Urquhart |
Volatile elements locked in moon rock Samples of a mineral present on the Moon and on Earth have been found to contain almost the same concentrations of hydrogen, chlorine and sulfur, adding weight to questions over how the Moon formed and evolved. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2009
Courtney E. Howard |
Teledyne Sensor Maps Moon's Surface on India's Spacecraft During the next two years, the M3 is designed to image the entire lunar surface with impressive spatial and spectral resolution. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Ian Christe |
The Next Threat to Astronauts: Moon Dust NASA's plans for colonizing the moon by 2024 have hit a problem. Dust particles discovered by the Apollo crew can make their way into moonwalkers' lungs. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2007
Thomas D. Jones |
Should We Repair Hubble? A plan to save the Hubble calls for five spacewalks and two shuttles. We asked a four-time shuttle astronaut if it's worth the risk. |
Information Today
May 15, 2008 |
Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope WorldWide Telescope is a web application that brings together imagery from the best ground- and space-based observatories across the world to allow people to easily explore the night sky through their computers. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Naomi Lubick |
NASA Debates Hubble's Fate Without a replacement telescope in sight, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced in the spring that a robotic mission would be sufficient to service Hubble, but now a group of scientists says that a robotic mission is too costly and uncertain. |
| AskMen.com |
NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Harrison H. Schmitt |
Space Exploration and Development: Why Humans? George Bush's new initiative places the president squarely in support of moving civilization into the solar system and "into the cosmos." |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2009
James Oberg |
Commercial Communications Satellites for the Moon NASA wants a for-profit network to support lunar missions. |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erin McCarthy |
NASA's Hubble Is Ready for Its 3D Closeup (With Video!) During the past 20 years, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed the age of the universe (about 14 billion years), shed light on dark energy and captured galaxies in all stages of evolution. |
Popular Mechanics
June 17, 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
Do We Really Need Another Satellite Orbiting the Moon? It is a tale of two satellites, a shared destination, and two very different missions. |
Geotimes
October 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Moon Soil, Earth Air? Apollo astronauts brought back samples of soil from the moon that contained unexpectedly high levels of nitrogen. New research is shedding light on the anomaly. |
| AskMen.com |
Bombing The Moon NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up. |
Popular Mechanics
January 12, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Moon-Rock Bricks Could Build Lunar Bases and Settlements One of NASA's most ambitious goals is to return to the moon and create a permanent base. Some scientists think that the materials for lunar buildings are on the moon already. |
Science News
March 17, 2001 |
TimeLine: March 14, 1931 70 Years Ago in Science News: New Welded Pipe Line Carries Water to San Diego... Age of Earth Determined as Over 2,000,000,000 Years... Moon Lacks Oxygen, Its Light Proves... |
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Water On The Moon The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen. |
Popular Mechanics
November 19, 2009
Stephen Ornes |
This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System: Gallery What has changed in solar system imagery over the past few decades and what we can learn from it |
Popular Mechanics
December 23, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Ready for Its April Launch, but Will It Help the U.S. Return to the Moon? The orbiter is more than just another satellite looking at moon rocks -- this mission is one of the first steps in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon, and use the moon as a springboard to reach beyond. |
Chemistry World
December 2009
Jon Cartright |
Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries. |
Science News
October 29, 2005 |
Spooky Sounds of Saturn These NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Web pages provide sound files based on magnetometer data from Cassini spacecraft observations of Saturn's moon Enceladus and more. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Sweet |
Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars. |
Wired
May 2003
Tom McNichol |
The Race Back to the Moon Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Naomi Lubick |
To Mars and Beyond The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond presented its recommendations to the administration Wednesday morning, on how to proceed with the president's sweeping plan for future space travel. |
Geotimes
October 2007 |
Hubble Sees Evolving Galaxies Researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute recently compiled more than 500 images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to reveal a tapestry-style image of at least 50,000 galaxies in a small stretch of sky near the Big Dipper. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Joshua Chamot |
Big Impact for a Small Moon Mineral Researchers have identified a new mineral from the moon, revealing new details about space weathering processes and offering a better understanding of remote observations of the moon and its brethren. |
Scientific American
March 13, 2005
Mark Alpert |
Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
Thomas D. Jones |
The Lunar Base: How to Settle the Moon (and Pay for Sleepovers) A four-time Space Shuttle astronaut explains what life will be like on NASA's four-man outpost come 2020, when the anti-Apollo mission will cast off aboard a new rocket and send explorers to hazardous territory. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Erin Biba |
Son of Hubble, Prepare for a 2013 Liftoff The James Webb Space Telescope will soon replace its aging predecessor. |
Wired
Sarah Douglas |
3 Weird Things About the Moon Three small unknown facts about the moon. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
NASA's New Moon Robot: Dig It! The space agency plans to turn lunar dust into air and water for astronauts arriving on the moon. The safest way to do that? With Lockheed Martin's robotic digger and gatherer. |
Popular Mechanics
May 15, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
The Future of 5 Telescopes in Space This week has been an active one for earthlings' quest to understand the universe. Here is the big news on five telescopes in the sky. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Bikkannavar & Redding |
Software for Optical Systems Spells the End of Blur NASA software that calculates optical aberrations will sharpen images from space and could redefine perfect vision for humans |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Water found in Moon rocks US researchers have found water in rocks from the Moon - prompting new questions about its origin. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
David Noland |
Moon Man: Buzz Aldrin's Advice on NASA's Orion Mission Buzz Aldrin offers his thoughts on the next mission to the moon. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Joseph Richard Gutheinz |
In Search of the Goodwill Moon Rocks: A Personal Account This senior special agent with NASA's Office of Inspector General was to locate and stop the predators who feed on the elderly by selling them bogus moon rocks, often for the victim's life savings. |
