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Roving The Moon
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Researchers in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a stable platform for drilling deep into extraterrestrial soils. Called "Scarab," this four-wheeled robot will never leave the Earth. But it will demonstrate technologies that a lunar rover wil ... more Asian spacefarers race for the moon 
Hyderabad, India (AFP) Sept 25, 2007Asian giants Japan, China and India are engaged in a race to map lunar resources and make the moon a platform to explore planets beyond, amid a renewed burst of global space activity. Japan flagged off the Asian lunar race on September 14 when it successfully launched its first lunar orbiter. China plans to launch its own moon probe before the end of the year, followed by India in the first ... more NASA, NSBRI Select 17 Proposals In Space Radiation Research 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 26, 2007The crews of future missions to the moon and Mars could face serious health risks from exposure to space radiation. NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, known as NSBRI, Houston, will fund 17 new research projects that will enable NASA to better understand and reduce those risks. Scientists at universities, research institutions and private companies in eight states will c ... more Outside View: China shoots for the moon 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 24, 2007 On Sept. 17, international reports confirmed the seriousness of Beijing's intention to put its own spacecraft in a lunar orbit before the end of this year. Although for the leading space players -- Russia and the United States -- planned expeditions are quite natural if not always justified, China's lunar ambition, and indeed the country's entire space effort, fills one with wonder at s ... more NASA Maps The Moon With Google 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 20, 2007New higher resolution lunar imagery and maps including NASA multimedia content now are available on the Google Moon Web site. Updates include new content from the Apollo missions, including dozens of embedded panoramic images, links to audio clips and videos, and descriptions of the astronauts' activities during the missions. The new content is overlaid on updated, higher-resolution lunar maps. ... more |
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New York (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Internet search giant Google on Thursday offered 30 million dollars in prize money for companies to land a robot camera to roam on the moon and send back high-resolution snaps and data. Google launched Google Moon, a page on its site with images mapping out stretches of the orb's pock-marked surface. They are compiled from photographs taken by previous moon missions including the historic ... more Saturn's Moon Iapetus Is The Yin-And-Yang Of The Solar System 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2007Scientists on the Cassini mission to Saturn are poring through hundreds of images returned from the Sept. 10 flyby of Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus. Pictures returned late Tuesday and early Wednesday show the moon's yin and yang--a white hemisphere resembling snow, and the other as black as tar. Images show a surface that is heavily cratered, along with the mountain ridge that runs ... more Japan postpones lunar mission launch 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 11, 2007Bad weather has forced Japan to postpone the launch of a lunar orbiter that aims to collect data for research on the moon's origin and evolution, the country's space exploration agency said Tuesday. The launch from the Space Centre on the small island of Tanegashima off the southern tip of Kyushu island has been delayed by one day until 10:31 am (0131 GMT) on Friday, said a spokeswoman for ... more More Teachers Get A Lesson In Weightlessness 
New York NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2007The Northrop Grumman Foundation launched 57 teachers from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania into weightlessness today as part of the Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery program. The goal: To inspire and prepare the next generation of scientists, mathematicians and engineers -- critical areas where the U.S. has fallen behind globally. The teachers performed a ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Aug 31, 2007Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025 and wants to build a permanent base there shortly after, the head of Russian space agency Roskosmos said Friday. "According to our estimates we will be ready for a manned flight to the Moon in 2025," Anatoly Perminov told reporters. An "inhabited station" could be built there between 2027 and 2032, he said. ... more HiRISE Confirms Existence of 'Pit Craters' On Mars 
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Aug 30, 2007The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) has confirmed that a dark pit seen on Mars in an earlier HiRISE image really is a vertical shaft that cuts through lava flow on the flank of the Arsia Mons volcano. Such pits form on similar volcanoes in Hawaii and are called "pit craters." The HiRISE camera, orbiting the red planet on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is the most ... more Boeing Selected To Build NASA's Upper Stage For Ares I 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 29, 2007Boeing has been awarded a NASA contract valued at approximately $514.7 million to produce the upper stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle. This element provides the navigation, guidance, control and propulsion required for the ascent of the second-stage Ares I into low-Earth orbit. The Ares I launches the Orion crew exploration vehicle, which will be joined with other elements of NASA's ... more An Exploding Lunar Eclipse 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 28, 2007Most people appreciate lunar eclipses for their silent midnight beauty. NASA astronomer Bill Cooke is different: he loves the explosions. On Tuesday morning, Aug. 28th, Earth's shadow will settle across the Moon for a 90-minute total eclipse. In the midst of the lunar darkness, Cooke hopes to record some flashes of light--explosions caused by meteoroids crashing into the Moon and blasting themselves ... more
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