Moon News
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Most of our readers probably think of the moon as a circle, or perhaps as a "big pizza pie" as one song puts it. Researchers have now found that it is actually shaped like a lemon.
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At 9:32 a.m. eastern time, three American astronauts left the confines of earth, speeding into space, destined to land on the moon and cement their status as American heros.
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The first of three consecutive "Super Moons" will rise above the Earth's skyline on Saturday July 12, 2014. Get your cameras ready.
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Charlottesville -
A joint effort using the resources of two of the world’s largest radio telescopes has revealed previously unseen features deep below the surface of the Moon.
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Mountains at the equator on Iapetus, a moon of the planet Saturn, may have come from space rather than being formed on the surface of the satellite.
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There's going to be a red moon rising over North America early Tuesday morning, only it's not exactly red but only looks that way.
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A body of liquid water has been discovered beneath the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. The tiny moon is a potentially hospitable home for extraterrestrial life.
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NASA hopes to launch a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, the solar system's most likely heavenly body to hold alien life, by 2025.
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The night sky is filled with wondrous sights, which have inspired many generations to reach for the stars and discover what lies beyond.
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Beijing -
China's troubled Jade Rabbit lunar rover has died on the surface of the moon, state media reported Wednesday, in a major setback for the country's ambitious space programme.The country's first moon rover "could not be restored to full function", the st...
In the Media
by AFP
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Beijing -
Chinese Internet users flooded the country's social media networks on Monday with condolences for the troubled Jade Rabbit moon rover, which experienced a "mechanical control abnormality" over the weekend.
In the Media
by AFP
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The moon is apparently getting bigger. This relates to moon dust, where powdery particles resting on the moon’s surface could form a layer up to 1 millimeter thick every 1,000 years.
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Some marine creatures have internal rhythms that cycle with the tides, influenced by the moon. These cycles are independent of circadian rhythms.
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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.
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As part of an unmanned mission, NASA is set to send the car-sized Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to the Moon to learn about it's atmosphere, and how it may be similar to that of other planets in the solar system.
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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.
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The Hubble Telescope has discovered a previously-unknown moon in orbit around Neptune, according to an announcement Monday by NASA.
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Scientists said the smaller moon have only survived a few million years before it collided with the one we see today, leaving just one. Landscapes on the current moon are the remains of the smaller moon from the collision.
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Two US lawmakers, Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), have proposed a bill to establish a national historical park on the Moon comprising of all artifacts left on the lunar surface by Apollo 11 through 17 missions (1969-1973).
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San Francisco -
Are you ever interested in what the Earth looks like at 1 p.m. EST on a Saturday? Well, now you might have the chance to view our blue marble online when a privately-funded telescope gets sent to the moon in two years.
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NASA is reporting that a meteor smashed into the Moon on March 17, 2013 at a speed of 56,000 mph, sparking the biggest and brightest explosion ever observed and creating a crater 65 feet wide (20 meters).
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Stargazers, prepare for the first lunar eclipse of the 2013 season. Many flock to websites in the hopes to find visibility and viewing information.
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Mountain View -
Star Trek fans have reason to celebrate after learning their choice for the name of one of Pluto's smallest moon is the overwhelming favorite.
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Kayla is a little over 2 years old. Her dad says anytime there is a clear view of the Moon she would cry excitedly "The Moon! The Moon!" The video shows one of the special moments little Kayla freaks out over the Moon.
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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.
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Astronomical and geophysical activities increase as “Mayan doomsday” prediction nears. Asteroid came nearer to Earth than the Moon, while mystery orb crashes. Geophysical actions proliferate throughout Chile, Iceland, and New Zealand.
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Scientists have long known that the moon and other rocky bodies in the inner solar system were pounded by impacts early in their history billions of years ago, but new evidence shows that the intensity of the impacts was greater that previously thought.
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Knoxville -
Scientists announced on Sunday they have found small particles of water on the earth's moon that come from an unusual source; the sun.
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A policeman in Worcestershire, England, put his colleagues on alert after he saw what he thought was a suspicious light, which turned out to be the moon.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of the moon and whose statement “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” is forever etched in history , has died at the age of of 82.
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Moon Image
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New findings assert that the moon is closer to a lemon than a pizza pie.
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An image provided by NASA of the lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)
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Cabeus Crater on the surface of the moon
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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.
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A shot of the Supermoon seen from uptown Toronto.
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Beijing Space Centre
The moon surface transmitted to Earth by the Chang'e-3 space probe carrying China's first lunar rover prior to landing on the moon on December 14, 2013
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Full Moon as seen from Earth's northern hemisphere
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NASA/JPL-Cal-tech (courtesy of Space.com)
March 26 'conjunction' of Moon-Venus-Jupiter
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The moon, in all of its possibly-water-containing glory.
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The supermoon appearing behind trees in Toronto on Saturday night. It was 221,802 miles (356,955 kilometers) away and appeared 14 percent larger and 16 percent brighter.
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"This image depicting the porosity of the lunar highland crust was derived using bulk density data from NASA's GRAIL mission and independent grain density measurements from NASA's Apollo moon mission samples as well as orbital remote-sensing data.
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Clouds covering a Full Moon.
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Moon holding ball in victory
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Flickr user Bruce Tuten
A view of a lunar eclipse
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Crescent Moon March 26, 2012
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