In the few short years since the COVID pandemic changed our world, China, Japan, and India have all successfully landed on the Moon. Many more robotic missions have flown past the Moon, entered lunar orbit, or crashed into it in the past five years. This includes spacecraft developed by South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, ...
When NASA attempted to return to the Moon for the first time in 50 years on January 8, more was at risk than just US$108 million worth of development and equipment. The agency earned the ire of the Native American Navajo people, who made a bid to stop the launch because of an unusual inclusion ...
In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon — and ended up painting a kilometres-long streak of debris on its barren surface. Now, the Indian Space Research Organisation has returned in triumph, with the Chandrayaan-3 lander successfully touching down near the south pole of Earth’s rocky Moon neighbor. India’s success came just ...
This idea about the deep sea has been repeated for decades by scientists and science communicators, including Sir David Attenborough in the 2001 documentary series The Blue Planet. More recently, in Blue Planet II (2017) and other sources, the Moon is replaced with Mars. As deep-sea scientists, we investigated this supposed “fact” and found it ...
Several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the impacting object strikes the newly formed planet with a glancing blow and then escapes through to one where the collision is so energetic that both the impactor and the planet are vaporized. Now, ...
Set for a November launch, the small satellite mission will use lasers to search for water ice inside the darkest craters at the Moon’s South Pole. It’s known that water ice exists below the lunar regolith (broken rock and dust), but scientists don’t yet understand whether surface ice frost covers the floors inside these cold ...
Billions of years ago, a series of Moon volcanoes erupted on the Moon, blanketing hundreds of thousands of square miles of the orb’s surface in hot lava. Over the eons, that lava created the dark blotches, or maria, that give the face of the Moon its familiar appearance today. New research from CU Boulder suggests ...
Ever since humans set foot on the lunar soil, excitement has stirred with the possibility of allowing people to live on the moon. At the time, it may have sounded like a far-fetched concept but scientists have taken a leap forward. Several moon space missions have been carried out by different countries, notably the USA ...
Hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth’s upper atmosphere and combining on the Moon could be one of the sources of the known lunar water and ice, according to new research by University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute scientists. The work led by UAF Geophysical Institute associate research professor Gunther Kletetschka adds to a growing body of research about ...
Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis are helping to recover gases from a Moon rock container that astronauts collected and sealed under vacuum on the surface of the Moon in 1972. The effort is part of NASA’s Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA) initiative. Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected the sample from ...
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