Moon
News on Moon’s surface water ice, including Lunar Orbiter program, lunar base, future lunar missions: Lunar Scout, Chandrayaan-2, Chang’e 4, Cislunar Explorers
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Oct 28, 2020NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon.
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Jan 20, 2019By looking at the Moon, the most complete and accessible chronicle of the asteroid collisions that carved our young solar system, a group of scientists is challenging our understanding of a part of Earth’s history.
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Oct 22, 2018To train future explorers to support NASA’s mission to return to the Moon’s surface, scientists use similar environments found on the Earth.
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Oct 21, 2018A facility planned for ESA’s Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, will recreate the Moon’s surface on Earth.
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Oct 17, 2018A team of astronomers observed the Moon with a radio telescope to help search for the faint signal from hydrogen atoms.
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Oct 5, 2018NASA has signed an agreement with the Israel Space Agency (ISA) to cooperatively utilize the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL’s commercial lunar mission, expected to land on the Moon in 2019.
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Sep 7, 2018Unique patterns, visible from backyard telescopes, may be produced by strongly magnetized lava.
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Aug 21, 2018In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon’s surface.
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Jul 25, 2018While the Moon is uninhabitable today, there could have been life on its surface in the distant past.
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Jun 17, 2018Scientists have discovered a mineral known as moganite in a lunar meteorite found in a hot desert in northwest Africa.