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»» Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Phase E Contract Extension
[Friday, May 11, 2012] NASA/GSFC intends to issue a sole-source Request for Proposal (RFP) to ASU. The estimated period of performance of this cost-no-fee (CNF) contract extension will be for 2-years from March 16, 2013 through March 15, 2015.
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»» Space Foundation Student Art Contest Winning Artwork Bounces Off the Moon
[Thursday, May 10, 2012] The Space Foundation's annual Student Art Contest winners are developing a reputation for actual space travel.
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»» Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit
[Friday, May 4, 2012] This mottled landscape shows the impact crater Tycho. Astronomers didn't aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study Tycho, however. The image was taken in preparation to observe the transit of Venus across the Sun's face on June 5-6.
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»» NASA Contract to Astrobotic Technology Investigates Prospecting for Lunar Resources
[Tuesday, April 24, 2012] Astrobotic Technology announces a NASA contract to determine whether its polar rover can deploy an ice-prospecting payload to the Moon. The ice could yield water, oxygen, methane and rocket propellant to dramatically reduce the cost of space exploration.
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»» NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Brings 'Earthrise' to Everyone
[Sunday, April 22, 2012] Everyone can see an Earthrise in this new NASA visualization, which draws on richly detailed maps of the moon's surface made from data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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»» NASA LRO Image of the Moon: The Rays of Messier A
[Friday, April 20, 2012] The high-reflectance of the main ray pair contrasts nicely with the lower reflectance background of Mare Fecunditatis.
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»» NASA LRO Image of the Moon: Smooth Ejecta
[Monday, April 16, 2012] Grooved surface created in an instant by an impact event. The linear pattern is radially symmetric around the parent crater; the parent crater must be very young as very few craters dot the ejecta blanket!
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»» NASA LRO Image: Inside Ryder Crater
[Monday, April 2, 2012] Ryder crater is rather oddly shaped; is it two craters or one? It is 17 km in the long direction and 13 km in its shortest dimension.
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»» NASA LRO Image: Copernicus Crater
[Friday, March 30, 2012] Understanding how scientists determine the relative age of geologic units on the Moon is straightforward, most of the time. One simply follows the law of superposition; what is on top is younger, what is below is older.
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»» NASA LRO Image: Lunokhod 1 Rover Parked On The Lunar Surface
[Thursday, March 29, 2012] Luna 17, carrying Lunokhod 1, landed on the flood basalt surface of Mare Imbrium on 17 November 1970, after entering orbit on 15 November.
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»» Titanium paternity test fingers Earth as moon's sole parent
[Thursday, March 29, 2012] A new chemical analysis of lunar material collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s conflicts with the widely held theory that a giant collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object gave birth to the moon 4.5 billion years ago.
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»» NASA LRO Image: Luna 24 Sitting On The Lunar Surface
[Wednesday, March 28, 2012] Luna 24 landed in Mare Crisium on 18 August 1976 to complete the unfinished mission of Luna 23. The landing sites of Luna 23 and 24 are only 2.3 km apart.
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»» Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 mph
[Wednesday, March 28, 2012] "Our job is to ensure our two GRAIL spacecraft are flying a very, very accurate trail formation in lunar orbit," said David Lehman, GRAIL project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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»» Earth's Other Moons
[Tuesday, March 27, 2012] Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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