News tagged with moon landers

Four Out of Six Apollos

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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 ...

Return-to-moon plan gets boost on Capitol Hill

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

(AP) -- NASA's weakened return-to-the-moon program has gotten a lift on Capitol Hill. The head of a special expert panel conceded to Congress on Tuesday that the moon program could work if given enough money. That would ...

Partial lunar eclipse will take place on 31st December

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(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.

NASA 'Drops' Next Generation Robotic Lander During Autonomous Tests

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Nov 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has successfully completed a series of autonomous "drop" tests of a robotic lander test article - in a record 10 months - to demonstrate the ability to perform a controlled landing on ...

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 ...

Moon Rock Turns Out to be Fake

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 01, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (7) | 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's never ...

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.

Mars radar opens up a planet’s third dimension

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 17, 2008 | 4 / 5 (20) | 1

ESA’s Mars Express radar sounder, MARSIS, has looked beneath the martian surface and opened up the third dimension for planetary exploration. The technique’s success is prompting scientists to think of all ...

India abandons satellite after losing contact

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 31, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 1

(AP) -- India's space agency has abandoned the country's only satellite orbiting the moon after efforts to revive communication with it failed, an official said Monday.

Astronomers Detect Sodium Gas Ejected by Lunar Impact

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 12, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (21) | 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Boston University astronomers announced today observations of a cloud of sodium gas ejected from the Moon’s surface as a result of the NASA impact experiment that was part of its Lunar Reconnaissance ...

India loses communication with lunar satellite (Update)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 30, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (12) | 18

(AP) -- India's national space agency said communications with the country's only satellite orbiting the moon snapped Saturday and that its scientists were no longer controlling the spacecraft.

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