How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
The LRO objectives are to find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology. The spacecraft will be placed in low polar orbit ...
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NASA's Europa Clipper snaps its 1st starry image en route to Jupiter's icy moon
This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...
Tech developed in Colorado for new orbiter to advance research on life in space
Tech built in Colorado will soon be heading to the moon as Lockheed Martin is working with Cal-Tech and NASA Jet Propulsion ...
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Orbiter photos show lunar modules from first 2 moon landings more than 50 years later
The photos were taken by the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter in April 2021 and were reshared ... the third man on the Apollo 11 mission, remained in orbit while Aldrin and Armstrong walked on the moon.
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India's Chandrayaan-2 moon orbiter avoids collision with South Korea's Danuri spacecraft
The report said the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter raised its orbit on Sept. 19 to prevent a close approach to Danuri, which was expected to occur two weeks later if Chandrayaan-2's trajectory went unchanged.