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Who Needs Dowsing?
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
04/12/06 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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 |
| Summary: 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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Digging the Moon
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
11/20/05 |
| Summary: November 14th was the 36th anniversary of Apollo 12, the second manned lunar landing. NASA announced that it has assigned management of its Robotic Lunar Exploration Program to NASA Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. |
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EANA Budapest Blog
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
11/14/05 |
| Summary: The European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) brings various voices to discuss astrobiology issues and missions. Scientists from the 17 member nations recently met in Budapest, Hungary. This blog by Astrobiology Magazine's Leslie Mullen provides an overview of the workshop. |
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