News tagged with moondust

Mt. Redoubt Gives Alaskans a Taste of the Moon

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Apr 06, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

"It's very fine but angular - the sharp edges make it feel gritty and abrasive."

LADEE Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 26, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

Right now, the Moon is a ghost town. Nothing stirs. Here and there, an abandoned Apollo rover — or the dusty base of a lunar lander — linger as silent testimony to past human activity. But these days, only ...

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 ...

Space: Is the final frontier all it used to be?

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 18, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 2

(AP) -- On July 22, 1969, barely 48 hours after a human being first stepped onto the moon's surface, a community in Pittsburgh's western suburbs called Moon Township had a parade, as suburban communities ...

Wide Awake in the Sea of Tranquillity

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 1

Neil Armstrong was supposed to be asleep. The moonwalking was done. The moon rocks were stowed away. His ship was ready for departure. In just a few hours, the Eagle's ascent module would blast off the Moon, ...

A Telescope Made of Moondust

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 10, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (8) | 1

A gigantic telescope on the Moon has been a dream of astronomers since the dawn of the space age. A lunar telescope the same size as Hubble (2.4 meters across) would be a major astronomical research tool. ...

Lunar GRAIL

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 23, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (14) | 4

Meet MIT professor of physics Maria Zuber. She's dynamic, intelligent, intense, and she's on a quest for the Grail. No, not that Grail.

Moondust and Duct Tape

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 22, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0

At this year's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Alabama, Prof. Paul Shiue of Christian Brothers University was overheard joking that duct tape was his team's "best engineering tool." Others felt the same ...

The Moon and the Magnetotail

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 17, 2008 | 4.1 / 5 (8) | 3

Behold the full Moon. Ancient craters and frozen lava seas lie motionless under an airless sky of profound quiet. It's a slow-motion world where even a human footprint may last millions of years. Nothing ever ...

Moondust in the Wind

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 11, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 1

Moondust is dry, desiccated stuff, and may seem like a dull topic to write about. Indeed, you could search a ton of moondust without finding a single molecule of water, so it could make for a pretty "dry" ...

The 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 08, 2008 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

Not one of the participants in NASA's 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race was old enough to have seen the 1969 movie, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies. Nevertheless, the racers all looked like stars of ...

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