Meet Trailblazer: A Spunky NASA Probe on a Mission to Map the Moon’s Water
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver that will get the Trailblazer in a position to reach ...
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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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 ...
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NASA Tests Swarm Robotics on the Moon with Upcoming CADRE Mission
The CADRE project aims to revolutionize lunar exploration with autonomous rovers that collaborate to map the Moon's surface ...