News tagged with moondust
Down the Lunar Rabbit-hole
A whole new world came to life for Alice when she followed the White Rabbit down the hole. There was a grinning cat, a Hookah-smoking caterpillar, a Mad Hatter, and much more. It makes you wonder... what's ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Mt. Redoubt Gives Alaskans a Taste of the Moon
"It's very fine but angular - the sharp edges make it feel gritty and abrasive."
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere
How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Weekend Orionid meteor shower
Earth is about to pass through a stream of debris from Halley's comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect more than 15 meteors per hour to fly across the sky on Saturday morning, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2011 |
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LADEE Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere
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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Microwaving Water from Moondust (w/ Video)
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 & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Space: Is the final frontier all it used to be?
(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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2009 |
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Wide Awake in the Sea of Tranquillity
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, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2009 |
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A Telescope Made of Moondust
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. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Lunar GRAIL
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.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 23, 2008 |
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Moondust and Duct Tape
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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2008 |
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The Moon and the Magnetotail
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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2008 |
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