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NASA – Clear Views of Apollo 12, 14, and 17 Sites

flyingeraser — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:00:50 +0000

via NASAexplorer

Winter Solstice – Total Lunar Eclipse Dec 21, 2010

flyingeraser — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:33:27 +0000

Time-Lapse via KxbTV

NASA – Lots of Water Discovered on Moon

flyingeraser — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 07:13:21 +0000

Scientists discover a billion gallons of water in just one lunar crater.

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Barcelona Moon team enters Lunar X PRIZE

flyingeraser — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:13:56 +0000

Barcelona Moon, a new Spanish team led by entrepreneur Xavier Claramunt, has officially announced its entry into the ongoing $US30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE. To win the Grand Prize, a team must soft land a privately-funded spacecraft on the moon, send a rover at least 500 meters out onto the moon’s surface, and transmit a specific set of video, images and data back to Earth. The as-yet-unnamed Spanish rover, appropriately enough, looks rather like a sombrero….

Source: Gizmag – Barcelona Moon Team

CNN: NASA discovered water on Moon LCROSS interview

flyingeraser — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:49:28 +0000

Anthony Colaprete, the LCROSS principal investigator explains how NASA found water on Moon – CNN interview

Video explaining Moon bombing mission via LRO / LCROSS

flyingeraser — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:29:39 +0000

Clark Planetarium in cooperation with NASA produced a short informative video regarding the LRO LCROSS mission to the moon.

Source: Clark Planetarium

NASA’s LRO and LCROSS Missions: Lunar Impact – Oct. 9, 2009

flyingeraser — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:53:35 +0000

NASA, along with just about everyone else down here on Earth, is looking to see if there is water on the Moon.

Chandrayaan and NASA’s Moon Mapper discovers evidence of water on moon

flyingeraser — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:19:41 +0000

It could be one of the biggest finds in the history of space research – water on the moon. And proof of this may have come from India’s own Chandrayaan satellite before it was aborted. The water found as a thin, invisible film.

NASA’s LOLA Mission: Defining the Lunar Terrain

flyingeraser — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:11:27 +0000

The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on board NASA’s LRO spacecraft will be responsible for building the highest detail topography available of the lunar terrain. In this video David Smith, LOLA’s Principal Investigator, explains how this technology works.

NASA Completes Desert Lunar Rover Testing

flyingeraser — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:31:18 +0000

One of the stops on NASA’s way to the moon is the Arizona desert. The 2009 Desert RATS – or Research and Technology Studies – field test simulated a 14-day lunar mission. Two crew members – an astronaut and a geologist – lived for 14 days inside NASA’s prototype Lunar Electric Rover, scouting the area for features of geological interest and conducting moonwalks as necessary to collect samples.
Other prototype vehicles tested include Ames’s K-10 robotic scout and JPL’s Tri-Athlete cargo handling and manipulation system.

For more information www.nasa.gov