Lunar News
|
Washington -
A total lunar eclipse, the first since December 2011, will take place Tuesday with the Americas best placed to get a glimpse.
In the Media
by AFP
|
|
At the launch of a NASA's LADEE unmanned moon orbiter, it was to be a frog that stole the show. That's one giant leap for frogkind.
|
|
ILOA and Moon Express, Inc. announced Thursday that they will send the world's first mission to the south pole of the Moon to open the possibility that the public will be able to access images from the Moon online.
|
|
Stargazers, prepare for the first lunar eclipse of the 2013 season. Many flock to websites in the hopes to find visibility and viewing information.
|
|
According to the Russian space agency, Russia's next unmanned mission to the Moon will launch in 2015, with a total of three lunar exploration missions planned over the next five years.
|
|
The video discusses the possibility of a manned lunar base in the next 10 years. Russia is speeding up the space race and is also making future plans for Mars.
|
|
Skywatchers in western North American who rise early on Saturday will get a chance to see this month’s total lunar eclipse. A total lunar eclipse will be visible in the early morning hours on Saturday, Dec. 10.
|
|
Tours, multi-media events, and education programs for the youth are nothing new for NASA. Science is relevant to the entire world; NASA’s desire to incorporate it into the everyday lives of children and youth from the United States is commendable.
|
|
China has been aggressively showing its ambition for space exploration over the past two years. After launching the nation's first lunar probe -- Chang'E-1 -- in 2007, now a giant radio telescope is being built in Shanghai for space data collection.
|
|
The moon has water! This is the preliminary finding of the team of NASA scientists analyzing the data from the impact of the LCROSS Centaur in the Cabeus lunar crater.
|
Japan has launched its first lunar probe on Friday, nicknamed Kaguya after a fairy-tale princess, in the latest move in a new race with China, India and the United States to explore the moon.
|
Japan has announced that it plans to send a lunar orbiter satellite to the moon sometime this summer.
|
|
Scientists in Shanghai are developing a nuclear-powered lunar rover for the country's first unmanned mission to the moon in 2012, newspapers reported Monday.
|
|
NASA is getting ready to test an inflatable structure that may one day be used as an outpost on the moon. The tests will be conducted at the Langley Research Center in Virginia. The structure was "created by NASA contractor ILC Dover LP".
|
|
A study suggests the smallest particles in lunar dust might be toxic, if comparisons with dust inhalation cases on Earth apply.
|
China wants to join the USA in the race to the moon??
|
People across China are celebrating the arrival of the Lunar New Year - China's most important festival. The year of the pig is supposed to bring good luck and prosperity
|
"Russia's Space Research Institute has been studying the idea of a space-elevator cluster to economically deliver payloads from the Earth to the Moon and back."
|
|
"NASA announced Monday it will establish an international base camp on one of the moon's poles, permanently staffing it by 2024, four years after astronauts return to the moon."
|
apis-236989 apis-213689 apis-210109 apis-202416 apis-195463 apis-174582 apis-166311 apis-161183 apis-132101 apis-129514 apis-96257 apis-96147 apis-95840 apis-93441
Lunar Image
NASA
Total lunar eclipse captured January 20-21, 2000
image:81466:2::0
image:84917:4::0
Sky & Telescope / Akira Fujii
Aligning his camera on the same star for nine successive exposures, Sky & Telescope contributing photographer Akira Fujii captured this record of the Moon’s progress dead center through the Earth’s shadow in July 2000. Credit: Sky & Telescope / Akira Fujii
image:101743:1::0
CREDIT: NASA/Darrell McCall
Rising from fire and smoke, NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission launches atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 Heavy rocket. Leaving from Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the spacecraft launched at 9:08:52 EDT Sept.10, 2011.
image:94799:0::0
Gregory H. Revera
The Moon
image:108883:0::0
NASA/Dennis M. Davidson
Artist's concept of a lunar base
image:111082:0::0
Ebs08
Representation of a Russian Moon space ship at the margin in the Moon's orbit
image:138679:0::0
JPL / NASA
The Grail probes will slip into the moon's orbit to study its uneven lunar gravity field
image:103324:0::0
|
|
