Paris, France (ESA) Oct 16, 2009 - The Moon is a big sponge that absorbs electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. These particles interact with the oxygen present in some dust grains on the lunar surface, producing water. This discovery, made by the ESA-ISRO instrument SARA onboard the Indian Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, confirms how water is likely being created on the lunar surface.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 16, 2009 - How do you fly on a world with no atmosphere? Wings won't work and neither do propellers. And don't even try that parachute! NASA engineer Brian Mulac has the answer. All it takes is practice, practice, practice, he says. And of course, thrusters.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2009 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made a series of observations immediately preceding and following the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Centaur rocket stage and shepherding spacecraft impacts at the lunar south pole, on October 9 at 7:31 and 7:35 a.m. EDT.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2009 - NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon's surface early Friday in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft's instruments to assess whether water ice is present.
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Oct 12, 2009 - A robot designed by UBC students will be shoveling moon dust at an international robotics competition next week, vying for a $500,000 prize and the opportunity to contribute to NASA's future space exploration projects.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 09, 2009 - At 7:30 a.m. EDT on October 9, a two-ton rocket body will slam into a crater near the moon's south pole. By studying the resulting plume of gas and dust, scientists hope this grand experiment will confirm the presence of ice in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles.
Bakersfield CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2009 - Masten Space Systems, led by David Masten, successfully flew its lunar lander rocket vehicle, XA-0.1B, also called Xombie twice in two hours. Masten is the second of four teams attempting to win a portion of a $2 million incentive prize purse as part of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (NGLLC), funded by NASA, and created and presented by the X PRIZE Foundation.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 09, 2009 - A distinctive crater about 35 meters (115 feet) in diameter was formed when the Apollo 14 Saturn IVB (upper stage) was intentionally impacted into the moon. The energy of the impact created small tremors that were measured by the seismometer placed on the Moon by Apollo 12 astronauts in 1969.
Washington (AFP) Oct 9, 2009 - The United States successfully blasted a rocket into the moon on Friday, slamming it into a crater near the lunar south pole in a bid to discover water, US space agency NASA said.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 08, 2009 - Astronomers at the some of the best ground-based telescopes in southern Arizona plan to observe two lunar impacts at 4:30 a.m. and 4:34 a.m. Arizona time Friday, Oct. 9.
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 08, 2009 - The European Space Agency's SMART-1 team has released an updated image of the future impact site of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), after the LCROSS team announced a new target last week. LCROSS will search for water ice on the Moon by making two impacts into a crater named Cabeus at the lunar South Pole. The impacts are scheduled for 11:31:19 UTC and 11:35:45 UTC on 9 October 2009.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 08, 2009 - 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 from moondust by heating it from the inside out.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 06, 2009 - The Team c-base Open Moon, a German group that includes physicians, businessmen, and engineers, has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to the Moon a privately funded spacecraft capable of completing a series of exploration and transmission tasks as outlined in the competition's official rules.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 06, 2009 - Just imagine. A spaceship plunges out of the night sky, hits the ground and explodes. A plume of debris billows back into the heavens, leading your eye to a second ship in hot pursuit. Four minutes later, that one hits the ground, too. It's raining spaceships!
Sunspot NM (SPX) Oct 06, 2009 - In the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 9, as many people in New Mexico are still asleep or barely stirring, a momentous event will be happening in outer space that could help define future space travel.
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2009 - NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) based on new analysis of available lunar data, has shifted the target crater from Cabeus A to Cabeus (proper).
