How NASA's Lunar Trailblazer will make a looping voyage to the moon
Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...
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NASA Is Sending a Water Hunter to the Moon, It'll Need Months to Get There
The Lunar Trailblazer satellite will depart at the end of the month on a mission to find and map water on the surface of the ...
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Images that capture our timeless obsession with the moon
Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter tells the story of the coexistence between humanity and the celestial ...
A Direct Hit? New Study Redefines the Moon’s Largest Crater
Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer: Looping Voyage to Moon
Lunar Trailblazer's voyage to the Moon will take between four and seven months, de-pending on the day it launches. This orbital diagram shows the low-energy transfer trajectory of the NASA mission ...
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The moon has its own Grand Canyon that was created in just 10 minutes
Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...
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How the Moon became a place
For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...
SpaceX To Launch Second Private Moon Lander With Hopping Robot This Month
Private US company Intuitive Machines is back with its second Nova-C lander nicknamed Athena for the IM-2 mission. It is ...
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Why it’s good for NASA that an asteroid carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.
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Lunar Trailblazer: NASA’s Clever Mission That Will Map the Moon’s Water—Without Wasting Fuel
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission, set to launch on February 26, 2025, is charting a bold new course to explore the Moon in ...
Indian Scientists Confirm Age Of Chandrayaan-3 Landing Site; It Formed When Life Started On Earth
The landing site dates back to the same era when the earliest microscopic life forms began emerging on Earth.