Bright Explosion on the Moon
By Dr. Tony Phillips | Science@NASA For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. “Lunar meteor showers” have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year. They’ve just seen the biggest explosion [...]
Read More →Moon Once Harbored a Long-Lived Dynamo – Magnetic Field Existed 3.6 Billion Years
The Daily Galaxy MIT’s research on an ancient lunar rock suggests that the moon once harbored a long-lived dynamo — a molten, convecting core of liquid metal that generated a strong magnetic field 3.56 billion years ago. The findings point to a dynamo that lasted much longer than scientists previously thought, and suggest that an alternative energy [...]
Read More →Huge Cloud Over Titan’s South Pole Could Be Organic
ANI NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has observed an ice cloud taking shape over Titan’s south pole, the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off a cascade of radical changes in the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon. Made from an unknown ice, this type of cloud has long hung over Titan’s north pole, where it [...]
Read More →Moon’s radiation damaging for humans, electronics
ZeeNews The radiation environment near the Moon could be damaging to humans and electronics on future missions, it has been revealed. To characterize this potentially hazardous environment, the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, which orbits at 50 kilometers (31 miles) above the Moon’s surface, [...]
Read More →Pluto May Have 10 More Undiscovered Moons, Study Suggests
By Elizabeth Howell | Space.com A flotilla of 10 or more tiny undiscovered moons might lurk in Pluto’s orbit, complicating a spacecraft’s planned flyby of the distant dwarf planet in 2015, new simulations suggest. This preliminary finding could make life even more difficult for the team planning NASA’s New Horizons mission, which is slated to [...]
Read More →Can we build a moon colony by using 3D printers?
By Bruce Powell | The Space Reporter It seems a bit crazy, but building a lunar colony may someday come down to how 3D printers evolve over the coming decade. According to a newly published report, humans may someday build colonies on the moon by using 3D printers that draw from the natural resources found [...]
Read More →Does Earth have a second moon?
EarthSky Many planets in our solar system have more than one moon. Mars has two moons, Jupiter has 66, Saturn 62, Uranus 27, Neptune 13. Those numbers keep changing, and you can see a relatively current count of solar system moons here from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But our planet Earth has just one moon. Doesn’t it? [...]
Read More →Russia Plans Unmanned Moon Mission
Express.co.uk The Russian Space Agency has said it will send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015 from a new launch pad in the country’s Far East. Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin told Russian news agencies that the rocket booster would deliver a 500kg space exploration vehicle with up to 25kg of scientific equipment that [...]
Read More →NASA Considers Tugging An Asteroid Into Orbit Around The Moon
Australian PopSci NASA’s (and President Obama’s) vision for sending a manned space mission to a distant asteroid by the 2020s doesn’t seem to be gaining much steam, but a conceptual mission under development by the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California could bring an asteroid much closer to home in that timeframe. An estimated [...]
Read More →Saturn’s Moon Titan, Large River Valley Discovered On Titan
Planet Save NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has just discovered and imaged a large river valley on Saturn’s moon Titan. The river is more than 200 miles long, spanning from its headwaters to the mouth of a large sea. This is the first time that images of a river system this large have been taken anywhere other [...]
Read More →3D Printer Could Transform Moon Dirt Into Lunar Base
Space.com For space scientists dreaming up a manned base on the moon, 3D printing with lunar dust looms as an attractive possibility. Such on-demand fabrication would allow astronauts to repair broken parts, manufacture spare ones and maybe even build structures, all out of the dirt scooped from under their boots. In a new study involving [...]
Read More →U.S. ‘planned to blow up Moon’ with nuke during Cold War era to show Soviets might
ANI The U.S. had planned to blow up the moon with a nuclear bomb in the 1950s. At the height of the space race, the U.S. considered detonating an atom bomb on the moon as a display of America’s Cold War muscle. The secret project, named ‘A Study of Lunar Research Flights’ and nicknamed ‘Project [...]
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