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»» 2012 NASA planetary Science Summer School
[Sunday, January 22, 2012] NASA is accepting applications from science and engineering post-docs, recent PhDs, and doctoral students for its 24th Annual Planetary Science Summer School, which will hold two separate sessions this summer.
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»» Montana Students Pick Winning Names for GRAIL Moon Craft
[Tuesday, January 17, 2012] Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year's Eve and New Year's Day have new names, thanks to elementary students in Bozeman, Mont.
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»» Lunar Images Alter Understanding of Impact History
[Friday, January 13, 2012] New images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter could change our view of the history of impacts on the Moon.
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»» NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LAMP Reveals Lunar Surface Features
[Friday, January 13, 2012] New maps produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon's northern and southern poles in regions that lie in perpetual darkness.
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»» NASA: New Names for Twin Lunar Probes To Be Announced Jan. 17
[Friday, January 13, 2012] NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Jan. 17, to announce the names selected from a nationwide student contest for twin spacecraft that will study the Moon in unprecedented detail.
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»» NASA Administrator Meets With Apollo Astronauts - Agency Will Work Cooperatively to Resolve Artifact Ownership Issues
[Monday, January 9, 2012] These are American heroes, fellow astronauts, and personal friends who have acted in good faith, and we have committed to work together to find the right policy and legal paths forward to address outstanding ownership questions.
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»» Buzz Aldrin Visits Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
[Saturday, January 7, 2012] On 6 January 2012, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin visited the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) located at Building 596 aka "McMoons" at the NASA Ames Research Park at Moffett Field, CA.
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»» Fly Me To The Moon: 1968 and 2012
[Friday, January 6, 2012] Top: The International Space Station flies over the face of the Moon as seen from Houston, Texas on 4 January 2012. Bottom: An Ares-1B spacecraft heads toward the Moon in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1968.
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»» NASA LRO Lunar Image: A Detailed Look at the Walls of Crater Aristarchus
[Monday, January 2, 2012] No wonder planners for the Apollo missions put this plateau high on its list of targets for human exploration. This amazing image was acquired on 10 November 2011 as LRO passed north-to-south about 70 km east of the crater's center.
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»» NASA's Twin Grail Spacecraft Reunite in Lunar Orbit
[Sunday, January 1, 2012] The second of NASA's two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has successfully completed its planned main engine burn and is now in lunar orbit. Working together, GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B will study the moon as never before.
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»» First Of NASA'S Two Grail Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Moon
[Sunday, January 1, 2012] NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft successfully completed its planned main engine burn at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST) today.
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»» Powerful Pixels: Mapping the Apollo Zone on the Moon
[Friday, December 30, 2011] Grayscale pixels - up close, they look like black, white or grey squares. But when you zoom out to see the bigger picture, they can create a digital photograph, like this one of our moon.
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»» NASA Twin Spacecraft on Final Approach for Moon Orbit
[Wednesday, December 28, 2011] NASA's twin spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core are nearing their New Year's Eve and New Year's Day main-engine burns to place the duo in lunar orbit.
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»» NASA to Host Media Telecon on Probes' Moon Orbit Insertion
[Friday, December 23, 2011] NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Wednesday, Dec. 28, to preview twin spacecraft being placed in orbit around the moon on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
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»» The Energy Spectrum of a Radio Pulse Created by a Cascade Disk Within the Moon's Regolith
[Tuesday, December 20, 2011] Some known analytical solutions for a cascade shower were used for determining the intensity of excess electrons' radio-emission. It is shown that the energy spectrum has a sharp decline in the region of high frequencies.
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