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»» LRO image of the Moon: Alphonsus Crater Mantled Floor Fracture
[Tuesday, September 4, 2012] LROC NAC closeup of a fracture in the floor of Alphonsus crater. Dark pyroclastic materials are intermixed with lighter rocks and boulders from the fracture walls and all appear to have moved in streamers toward the fracture floor at upper right.
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»» SMART-1 Impact Site on the Moon
[Monday, September 3, 2012] Six years ago today, the satellite was deliberately crashed at the site circled in this image, which lies within a region known as the Lake of Excellence, located at mid-southern latitudes on the lunar near-side.
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»» NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science
[Friday, August 31, 2012] NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations.
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»» Image: Blue Moon over the South America As Seen by EUMESAT's MSG-3
[Friday, August 31, 2012] Blue Moon over the south American region, seen during the MGS-3 commissioning phase, consisting of five-minute rapid scans of the Earth and Moon.
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»» Patches of Water Ice Could Comprise 5 - 10% of Shackleton Crater's Walls
[Friday, August 31, 2012] Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have estimated the maximum amount of ice likely to be found inside a permanently shadowed lunar crater located near the moon's South Pole
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»» Space Camera to Cover Blue Moon, Solar Flares While Commemorating Life of Neil Armstrong
[Thursday, August 30, 2012] In an ongoing mission to share a live view of the universe, Slooh Space Camera will broadcast the Blue Moon live on Slooh.com, free to the public, starting on Friday, August 31st at 3:00 PM PDT / 6:00 PM EDT / 22:00 UTC.
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»» A "Blue Moon" Heralds the Harvest
[Wednesday, August 29, 2012] Heralding the change in season, a full Moon will rise in the eastern twilight sky for the second time this month on August 31st.
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»» Photo: President Obama Winks at The Moon - For Neil Armstrong
[Monday, August 27, 2012] Photo: President Obama Winks at The Moon - For Neil Armstrong
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»» Our Explorers Club "Man On The Moon": Neil Armstrong MED'76
[Monday, August 27, 2012] Another Explorers Club Member and legend, Neil Armstrong MED'76, has moved on to ultimate exploration stardom, passing away Saturday, Aug. 25th, from complications of heart surgery.
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»» First Earthrise Photo Taken 46 Years Ago Today
[Thursday, August 23, 2012] 46 Years ago today, on 23 August 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the first photo of Earth as seen from lunar orbit. While a remarkable image at the time, the full resolution of the image was never retrieved from the data stored from the mission.
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»» Photos: Moonset as Seen From The International Space Station
[Saturday, August 4, 2012] Because of the home planet's atmosphere, it is not easy at first sighting to recognize the heavenly body as the full moon. Another picture in this series depicts a totally different image of Earth's natural satellite because of the lack of distortion caus
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»» Comparing Moon Boulders: Lunar Orbiter (1967) Vs LRO (2012)
[Thursday, July 19, 2012] When looking at higher resolution imagery it is obvious that the dynamic range of the LOIRP- retrieved Lunar Orbiter image is greater than that presented in the LRO image - especially in bright regions.
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»» 'Deflector Shields' Protect the Lunar Surface
[Thursday, July 19, 2012] In the Apollo era it was realized that lunar swirls were associated with localized magnetic fields in the lunar crust (so-called lunar magnetic anomalies).
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»» NASA Ames Hosts Lunar Science 2012 Forum
[Thursday, July 12, 2012] Plans for the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission also will be discussed, as will a wide variety of topics enabled by scientific investigations related to the moon.
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»» 'Moon' mission sends back first images from Victoria Island
[Monday, July 9, 2012] It might not be a giant leap for mankind just yet, but Western-led training in the Canadian Arctic may lead to the first steps for future international missions to the Moon or Mars.
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Monday, September 10, 2012
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1970-2010: The Golden Age of Solar System Exploration
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Hearing: Examining NASA's Development of the Space Launch System and Orion Crew Capsule
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