News tagged with lunar dust

Oct 10, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (19) | 11

(AP) -- NASA's great lunar fireworks finale fizzled. After gearing up for the space agency's much-hyped mission to hurl two spacecraft into the moon, the public turned away from the sky Friday anything but ...

Discovered after 40 years: Moon dust hazard influenced by Sun's elevation

Apr 17, 2009 | 4 / 5 (6) | 5

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Apollo Moon Program struggled with a minuscule, yet formidable enemy: sticky lunar dust. Four decades later, a new study reveals that forces compelling lunar dust to cling to surfaces ...

CU-Boulder to build $6 million instrument for NASA lunar orbiter

Jan 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

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 ...

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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft's six science instruments resumed observations today.

Herschel Space Telescope uncovers the sources of the Cosmic Infrared Background

Dec 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (8) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using first observations with the PACS Instrument on board ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and other institutions have ...

Inside the dark heart of the Eagle

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Herschel has peered inside an unseen stellar nursery and revealed surprising amounts of activity. Some 700 newly-forming stars are estimated to be crowded into filaments of dust stretching ...

Philippine volcano rumbles with fresh explosions

Dec 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- The Mayon volcano, which has blown its top nearly 40 times in 400 years, menaced nearby residents with small eruptions of ash and lava Wednesday as Philippine authorities moved more than 30,000 people ...

NASA unveils latest results from lunar mission

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

NASA's current mission in orbit around the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has been providing crucial insights about our nearest celestial neighbor since its launch in June. At a scientific ...

Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (15) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. ...

NASA's AIM Satellite and Models are Unlocking the Secrets of Mysterious 'Night-Shining' Clouds (w/ Video)

Dec 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite has captured five complete polar seasons of noctilucent (NLC) or "night-shining" clouds with an unprecedented horizontal resolution ...

New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

Dec 15, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

December 18, 2009, marks the tenth year since the launch of Terra, one of NASA's "flagship" Earth observing satellites. But the decade is more than just a mechanical milestone. With each additional day and ...

First Direct Imaging of a Young Binary System

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (16) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and other universities have captured the first direct image of a young ...

Close-up photos of dying star show our sun's fate (w/ Video)