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Popular Mechanics September 11, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Why NASA Should Bomb the Moon to Find Water: Analysis NASA today announced the site of a mission that aims to send an empty fuel tank into a lunar crater to assess the amount of frozen water that is kicked up by the impact.
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.
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.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009	India Joins League of Lunar Nations Last November, India reached the moon, the fifth country to do so after the United States, Russia, Japan, and China.
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.
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.
Popular Mechanics April 10, 2006 Benjamin Chertoff	NASA Announces New Mission to the Moon NASA uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter EELV launch vehicle as a lunar impactor in search for water ice in moon's poles.
Popular Mechanics September 2008 Michael Milstein	Inside NASA's Plan to Bomb the Moon and Find Water Water is a key ingredient in the agency's plans to establishing a permanent outpost there because it can be broken down into oxygen for lunar bases and fuel for rockets.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources NASA is using the unique optical capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope for a new class of scientific observations of the Earth's Moon.
AskMen.com	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 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.
Chemistry World September 24, 2009 Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay	A moist moon Strong evidence for water on the moon's surface has been found by three separate spacecraft-based spectroscopic studies.
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Tiny Moon, Gigantic Geyser A tiny moon of Saturn, no larger than England, is changing researchers' notions about which celestial bodies can support geologic activity.
Geotimes August 2005 Megan Sever	Icy Methane Volcano on Titan New images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during a flyby of Saturn's largest satellite are now revealing what researchers think is evidence of a large volcano on Titan that could be erupting methane.
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.
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 December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	New View of a Saturnian Moon More than 250 years after astronomers first discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion, the odd celestial body is still presenting surprises. A closer-than-ever view of the moon revealed a heavily cratered surface, which looks remarkably like a sponge.
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.
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.
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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.
Geotimes July 2005 McFadden & Schultz	Collision Course: Deep Impact The Deep Impact project will shed light on some fundamental scientific questions about comets, including what they are made of and how they formed.
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford	Saturn's New Moon In a small space between Saturn's rings, scientists discovered a previously unknown moon, currently known as S/2005 S1, from the images sent back to Earth from Cassini less than a year after the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn.
Geotimes December 2004	A Saturnian One-Two Punch: Flybys of Titan and Dione On Monday, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft flew by Titan only 1,200 kilometers above the moon's surface. It was the second such flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, since the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn on June 30.
Geotimes July 2004 Jay Chapman	Sliding into Saturn Late Wednesday night, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft silently slipped through the outermost rings of Saturn and entered into orbit. By early Thursday morning, Cassini began transmitting strikingly elegant close-up images of Saturn's rings.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Stone	Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space
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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.
Popular Mechanics September 2006	Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds.
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 James Oberg	Commercial Communications Satellites for the Moon NASA wants a for-profit network to support lunar missions.
Popular Mechanics January 23, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Dissent Grows as Scientists Oppose NASA's New Moon Mission NASA's current plan for manned space exploration is getting dissension from planetary scientists and astronauts.
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 June 2005 Sara Pratt	Peaks of Eternal Light on the Moon Planetary scientists have found several spots near the north pole of the moon that receive continuous sunlight during the pole's lunar summer, making them prospective locations for future solar-powered equipment, or even a lunar station.
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.
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.
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.
Geotimes February 2005	Touching Titan Little more than an hour after landing, the Huygens probe sent back its first shots of Saturn's largest moon.
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.
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.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Barry E. DiGregorio	Chinese Satellite Arrives at Moon Radio tracking and control of the lunar mission is made possible through through politics and technology.
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.
Geotimes January 2005 Megan Sever	Huygens touches down on Titan Grins and thumbs-up signs began a press conference to announce that the Huygens probe had landed successfully on Saturn's largest moon.
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InternetNews December 19, 2006 David Needle	Google Reaches Far Out For Users Google announced it signed a Space Act agreement with NASA Ames Research Center.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Closing in on Mars A camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft returned its first four images to Earth, and astronomers say they were "thrilled" with the results.
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.
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.