http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- The Moon is a big sponge that absorbs electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. These particles interact with the oxygen present in some dust grains on the lunar surface, producing water. This discovery, made by the ESA-ISRO instrument SARA onboard the Indian Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, confirms how water is likely being created on the lunar surface. http://www.physorg.com/news174820252.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:11:15 EST news174820252 The LRO Diviner instrument obtained infrared observations of the LCROSS impact. LRO flew by the LCROSS Centaur impact site 90 seconds after impact at a distance of ~80 km. Diviner was commanded to observe the impact site on eight successive orbits, and obtained a series of thermal maps before and after the impact at approximately two hour intervals at an angle of approximately 48 degrees off nadir. In this viewing geometry, the spatial footprint of each Diviner detector was roughly 300 by 700 meters. http://www.physorg.com/news174550201.html Space & Earth Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:10:33 EST news174550201 NASA is figuring out how to make water from moondust. Sounds like magic? "No magic--" says Ed Ethridge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center "-- just microwaves. We're showing how microwaves can extract water from moondust by heating it from the inside out." http://www.physorg.com/news174241668.html Space & Earth Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:30:02 EST news174241668 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the some of the best ground-based telescopes in southern Arizona plan to observe two lunar impacts at 4:30 a.m. and 4:34 a.m. Arizona time Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news174146100.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:58:52 EST news174146100 China has completed a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the entire surface of the moon, in an important step towards a future lunar landing, an expert involved in the project said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news173421923.html Space & Earth Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:10:02 EST news173421923 Over its ten months of operation, the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) gathered data for a total of 30 solar flares, giving the most accurate measurements to date of magnesium, aluminium, silicon, calcium and iron in the lunar surface. Results will be presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, Germany, by the instrument`s Principal Investigator, Professor Manuel Grande on Friday 18 September. http://www.physorg.com/news172493846.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:30:03 EST news172493846 NASA has identified the spot where it will search for water on the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news171642986.html Space & Earth Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:37:10 EST news171642986 Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site. http://www.physorg.com/news171215857.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:58:05 EST news171215857 (AP) -- Google Inc. is offering a more wide-ranging view of the Moon, 40 years after humans first landed there. http://www.physorg.com/news167323588.html Technology Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:46:51 EST news167323588 (AP) -- India's only satellite orbiting the moon came close to failure after overheating but scientists improvised to save it and have achieved more than 90 percent of the mission's objectives, an official said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news167033247.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:07:50 EST news167033247 They have travelled further than any fashion item on Earth, surviving a hostile environment and extremes of heat and cold on a world far from ours. But now age is catching up with NASA spacesuits. http://www.physorg.com/news166945797.html Space & Earth Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:50:01 EST news166945797 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on June 23. The spacecraft's two cameras, collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, were activated June 30. The cameras are working well and have returned images of a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds). http://www.physorg.com/news165764893.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:48:52 EST news165764893 NASA launched its first moon shot in a decade Thursday, sending up a pair of unmanned science probes that will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. http://www.physorg.com/news164593301.html Space & Earth Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:22:00 EST news164593301 NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence. http://www.physorg.com/news164546712.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:40:01 EST news164546712 (AP) -- Japan's first lunar probe made a controlled crash landing on the moon Thursday, successfully completing a 19-month mission to study the Earth's nearest neighbor, Japan's space agency said. http://www.physorg.com/news163910504.html Space & Earth Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:42:00 EST news163910504 If NASA is going to successfully establish a permanent human presence on the moon, it must be able to accurately track and direct its crew members and exploration vehicles, and the space agency has charged a University of Houston research team with helping it do just that. http://www.physorg.com/news159115921.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:53:56 EST news159115921 The flight computer onboard the Lunar Excursion Module, which landed on the Moon during the Apollo program, had a whopping 4 kilobytes of RAM and a 74 KB "hard drive." In places, the craft's outer skin was as thin as two sheets of aluminum foil. http://www.physorg.com/news158508812.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:14:11 EST news158508812 At sunset on Thursday, astronomers around the world will be limbering up for a 100-hour marathon aimed at celebrating the night sky and nurturing the Galileos of tomorrow. http://www.physorg.com/news157871372.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:10:38 EST news157871372 (PhysOrg.com) -- Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA's Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical assistance from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news154790420.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:20:55 EST news154790420 (PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed map of the Moon ever created has revealed never-before-seen craters at the lunar poles. The map is also revealing secrets about the Moon's interior -- and hinting about Mars's interior as well. C.K. Shum, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, is part of the international research team that published the map in the February 13 issue of the journal Science. http://www.physorg.com/news153671640.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:34:36 EST news153671640 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters. http://www.physorg.com/news151331093.html Space & Earth Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:24:53 EST news151331093 (PhysOrg.com) -- A technology development engine that may help NASA safely return astronauts to the lunar surface has successfully completed its third round of testing. The goal of these tests is to reduce risk and advance technology for a reliable and robust rocket engine that could enable America's next moon landing. http://www.physorg.com/news151172287.html Space & Earth Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:18:07 EST news151172287 The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere. http://www.physorg.com/news150781336.html Space & Earth Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:42:16 EST news150781336 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dwellings in colonies on the moon one day may be built with new, highly durable bricks developed by students from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. http://www.physorg.com/news150396734.html Technology Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:52:14 EST news150396734 (PhysOrg.com) -- Their names are now part of exploration history - Sea of Tranquility, Ocean of Storms, Frau Mauro, Hadley Rille, Descartes and Taurus-Littrow. They are the sites on the lunar surface visited by America's Apollo astronauts. Six unique locations. each with its own unique set of challenges to those who wanted to explore its secrets. http://www.physorg.com/news149349765.html Space & Earth Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:02:45 EST news149349765 (PhysOrg.com) -- Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation`s (ISRO) lunar orbiter, was captured into orbit around the Moon on 8 November. One day later, the spacecraft performed a manoeuvre that lowered the closest point of its orbit down to 200 km from the Moon. http://www.physorg.com/news145545448.html Space & Earth Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:17:28 EST news145545448