12/29/2009 14:32 Filed in:
Current EventsSpace.com recently posted a 2009 year in review article on their website. According to them, the most significant astronomical discovery of 2009 was the discover of
water on the Moon. So what's the big deal? Why is this such a significant discovery? What difference does it make? Does this mean that life ever existed on the Moon?
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10/07/2009 11:16 Filed in:
NASA | Current EventsYou may have heard recently that NASA is going to bomb the moon. Well, that's not exactly correct. The reality is that they are going to crash a probe into the moon's surface so that they can collect data from the resulting dust and debris "plume."
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08/10/2009 22:21 Filed in:
GeneralTwo new spacecraft have sent us back a few new pictures of the Earth. The Chandrayaan-1 (from India) spacecraft sent into orbit around the Moon is equipped with NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper and it captured the image above while it was orbiting just over 120 miles over the moon’s surface.
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07/17/2009 17:54 Filed in:
NASA | GeneralOne of the main questions, believe it or not, that we get asked whenever we have a star party is this, “Can you see the American flag on the moon with that telescope?” I know it sounds hilarious, but we get asked this all the time, and we generally only lug around an 8” telescope to our star parties.
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06/19/2009 09:42 Filed in:
Current EventsToday, NASA is going to launch a new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and a companion LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) impactor to the moon. This launch will mark NASA’s first step in its long awaited
return to the moon. This mission is the first of several missions that may ultimately send man back to the moon within the next decade.
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06/01/2009 09:50 Filed in:
Night SkyAs the moon makes its monthly circuit around the sky it often passes in front of stars, blotting them out for as much as an hour or so. Such an occultation can be a startling spectacle, especially if the star is bright. The star appears to creep up to the moon's limb, hang on the edge for a minute or two, and then, without warning, wink out. Later it flashes back into view just as suddenly on the moon's other side.
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