News tagged with lunar landscape

Forty years ago man first walked on the moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 05, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 3

Forty years ago on July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong realized the oldest dream of human civilizations when he became the first man to walk on the moon.

Passage graves from an astronomical perspective

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 18, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 1

Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that the Stone Age graves' orientation in the landscape could ...

China says completes 3D moon map

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 29, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 1

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.

NASA prepares for Moonbuggy Race

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 14, 2008 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

The U.S. space agency is transforming part of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center into a lunar landscape for the 15th annual Great Moonbuggy Race.

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 ...

NASA's LCROSS Mission Changes Impact Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 29, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(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

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 30, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

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 ...

Lunar rock-like material may someday house moon colonies

Technology / Engineering

Jan 05, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (9) | 9

(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.

Microwaving Water from Moondust (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 08, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 2

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 ...

C1XS success will provide new understanding of lunar surface

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 18, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

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 ...

China to launch second lunar probe: state media

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

China will launch its second moon orbiter next October, state media reported Friday, as it powers ahead with a space programme that has sparked concerns abroad.

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