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Feeling the Burn
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
04/20/06 |
| NASA has teamed up with two universities to study ways to reduce the adverse effects of space travel has on astronauts' physical heath. |
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Melting the Moon
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
04/14/06 |
| New age measurements of lunar rocks returned by the Apollo space missions have revealed that a surprising number of the rocks show signs of melting about 3.9 billion years ago, suggesting that the moon - and its nearby neighbor Earth - were bombarded by a series of large meteorites at that time. |
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Who Needs Dowsing?
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
04/12/06 |
| NASA announced that a small, 'secondary payload' spacecraft, to be developed by a team at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has been selected to travel to the moon to look for precious water ice at the lunar south pole in October 2008. |
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Making a Home on the Moon
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/23/06 |
| After a grueling day climbing the mountains of the moon, astronauts will need a place to kick back and relax. Larry Toups of the Johnson Space Center talks with Astrobiology Magazine about the challenges of designing a dwelling for the future moonwalkers. |
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Interplanetary Broadband
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/21/06 |
| MIT researchers have developed a tiny light detector that may allow for super-fast broadband communications over interplanetary distances. Currently, even still images from other planets are difficult to retrieve. |
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Waterless Gullies
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/18/06 |
| If you're a scientist studying the surface of Mars, few discoveries could be more exciting than seeing recent gullies apparently formed by running water. A word of caution, though: The moon has gullies that look like that, a University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory researcher has found. And water certainly didn't form gullies on the waterless moon. |
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Noah's Ark on the Moon
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
02/27/06 |
| In the second in our series of 'Gedanken,' or thought experiments, Bernard Foing suggests that the moon could act as a lifeboat in case Earth is ever struck down by a major catastrophe. |
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Lunar Olympics
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
02/16/06 |
| It's only a matter of time. One day, winter Olympics will be held on the moon. The moon's dust-covered slopes are good places to ski. There's plenty of powder, moguls and, best of all, low-gravity. With only 1/6th g holding them down, skiers and snowboarders can do tricks they only dreamed of doing on Earth. How about an octuple-twisting quadruple backflip? Don't worry. Crashes happen in slow-motion, so it won't hurt so much to wipe out. |
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Jack Skis the Moon
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
02/13/06 |
| To celebrate the Winter Olympic Games, our nearest neighbor, the moon, offers an alien but familiar version of its own powdery dust and rugged mountain terrain. Relive the moon landings in the Apollo Chronicles from the winter wonderland of a lunar expedition. |
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Peaks of Eternal Light
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
11/24/05 |
| If a planet or moon has only a slight rotational tilt, a tall mountain or crater rim can be forever bathed in sunlight. In 1994, NASA's Clementine mission found candidates for such "peaks of eternal light" on the moon's north and south poles. |
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