News tagged with lunar horizon
Otherworldly Solar Eclipse
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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For the first time, a spacecraft from Earth has captured hi-resolution images of a solar eclipse while orbiting another world.
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Partial lunar eclipse will take place on 31st December
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a lunar eclipse, the Earth, Sun and Moon are almost exactly in line and the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun.
China says completes 3D moon map
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Sep 29, 2009 |
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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.
Lunar Eclipse
Feb 13, 2007 |
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Picture this: The year is 2025 and you're on the moon. "Home" is 100 meters away—an outpost on the rim of Shackleton Crater. NASA started building it five years earlier, and it is growing fast. You're one of ...
New NASA Missions to Reach Moon Tuesday, Sending Back Live Video
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two NASA spacecraft will reach major mission milestones early Tuesday morning as they approach the moon -- one will send back live streaming imagery via the Internet as it swings by the moon, ...
Moon's South Pole: No Evidence For Ice Sheets
Oct 18, 2006 |
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Using the highest resolution radar-signal images ever made of the moon – images from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Arecibo Telescope in Arecibo, P.R., and the NSF’s Robert C. Byrd Telescope in Green ...
A New Paradigm for Lunar Orbits
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Dec 01, 2006 |
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It's 2015. You're NASA's chief engineer designing a moonbase for Shackleton Crater at the Moon's south pole. You're also designing a com-system that will allow astronauts constant radio contact with Earth.
NASA's LCROSS Mission Changes Impact Crater
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Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) based on new analysis of available lunar data, has shifted the target crater from Cabeus A to Cabeus (proper).
3 questions: Ben Weiss discusses what a wet moon might mean
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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Last week, NASA and other agencies announced results from instruments aboard three different spacecraft which all indicate that there is water present in the surface soil, or regolith, of the moon. Although ...
New Project To Develop GPS-Like System For Moon
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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The same Ohio State University researcher who is helping rovers navigate on Mars is leading a new effort to help humans navigate on the moon.
LROC's first look at the Apollo landing sites
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Jul 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
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