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Messenger to Moon, Say Cheese
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/31/05 |
| Summary: NASA's Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft - less than three months from an Earth flyby that will slingshot it toward the inner solar system - successfully tested its main camera by snapping distant approach shots of Earth and the Moon. |
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Bombarded by Mysteries
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/25/05 |
| Summary: People of every culture have been fascinated by the dark "spots" on the Moon, which seem to compose the figure of a rabbit, frogs or the face of a clown. With Apollo missions, scientists found these features are huge impact basins that were flooded with now-solidified lava. |
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Martian Satellites Greet Each Other
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/22/05 |
| Summary: New photographs from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are the first pictures ever taken of a spacecraft orbiting a foreign planet by another spacecraft orbiting that planet. |
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Beam Me to Mars
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/08/05 |
| Summary: Are we there yet? Everyone has faced this exasperating question from impatient companions on a long road trip. Imagine if the trip lasted six months. One way. It takes conventional rockets about six months just to get to Mars. Could a technology send astronauts racing to Mars up to six times faster? |
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Moonbase Divining for Lunar Water?
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/07/05 |
| Summary: The next time you look at the Moon, pause for a moment and let this thought sink in: People have actually walked on the Moon, and right now the wheels are in motion to send people there again. Whether a moonbase will turn out to be feasible hinges largely on the question of water. |
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Rosetta Eyes Earth
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/04/05 |
| Summary: ESA's comet chaser mission Rosetta took these infrared and visible images of Earth and the Moon, during the Earth fly-by of early March 2005 while on its way to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. |
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The Eternal Lunar Day
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
04/17/05 |
| Summary: An illuminated part of a lunar crater rim may be very close to the Moon's North pole and is a candidate for a peak of eternal sunlight. Such places could be key locations for future lunar outposts. |
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Pushing the Planetary Envelope
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/23/05 |
| Summary: In Part Five in the series on stellar and terrestrial evolution, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the PBS/NOVA Series "Origins", discusses his role in the President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond, and explains what drives us to seek a future in space. |
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Blue Ribbon Buoyancy
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/23/05 |
| Summary: In Part Four in the series on stellar and terrestrial evolution, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the PBS/NOVA Series "Origins", discusses his role in the President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond, and the surprising things he learned from testimony presented to the commission. |
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Moon Mapping Extended
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/04/05 |
| Summary: The SMART mission now orbiting the moon has been given a year-long extension to continue its survey of future landing sites. The probe is part of a series designed to explore neighboring worlds using the highly efficient ion drive. |
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