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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's first moon images available

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 02, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 1

(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 ...

LRO Sees Apollo 14's Rocket Booster Impact Site

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Oct 08, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A distinctive crater about 35 meters (115 feet) in diameter was formed when the Apollo 14 Saturn IVB (upper stage) was intentionally impacted into the moon. The energy of the impact created ...

LROC's first look at the Apollo landing sites

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 17, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 4

The imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph the Apollo landing sites. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged ...

Four Out of Six Apollos

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Dec 24, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 3

(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 ...

Ancient rock's magnetic field shows that moon once had a dynamo in its core

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Jan 15, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (11) | 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- The collection of rocks that the Apollo astronauts brought back from the moon carried with it a riddle that has puzzled scientists since the early 1970s: What produced the magnetization found ...

Senate confirms ex-astronaut Bolden to head NASA

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- The Senate confirmed on Wednesday retired astronaut Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden as administrator of NASA, just in time for the space agency's 40th anniversary celebrations of man's first steps on the ...

Taking space in stride: New analysis could lead to better lunar, Mars spacesuits (w/ Video)

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Aug 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has watched videos of the Apollo astronauts moving across the surface of the moon has noticed the unusual loping gait they sometimes adopted and their slow, almost graceful, movements. Now a new ...

Digital archive casts new light on Apollo-era moon pictures

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Aug 01, 2007 | 3.5 / 5 (11) | 0

Nearly 40 years after man first walked on the moon, the complete lunar photographic record from the Apollo project will be accessible to both researchers and the general public on the Internet. A new digital archive – created ...

The Sky is Falling

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May 01, 2006 | 4.9 / 5 (32) | 0

Up on the Moon, the sky is falling. "Every day, more than a metric ton of meteoroids hits the Moon," says Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Meteoroid Environment Office. They literally fall out ...

Rumblings on the moon could be problematic for lunar base

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Apr 07, 2006 | 4.6 / 5 (59) | 0

As NASA envisions it, astronauts will return to the moon within the next decade or so. Unlike in the earlier, quick, Apollo visits, these astronauts will build a permanent base and prepare for an historic ...

Apollo 11 crew: Aldrin likes spotlight, 2 shun it

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Jul 19, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(AP) -- In the 40 years since Apollo 11, some of the key players, most notably Neil Armstrong, have steered clear of the increasingly bright glare of the moonlight cast by the historic lunar landing. Others ...

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