Sentences with phrase «at lunar missions»

Russia, China and the European Space Agency are all looking at lunar missions.

Not exact matches

Discovering molecular hydrogen on the moon was a surprise result from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which crash - landed the LCROSS satellite's spent Centaur rocket at 5,600 miles per hour into the Cabeus crater in the permanently shadowed region of the moon.

Lunar material kicked up by the LCROSS mission contained at least a few bucketfuls of water, NASA announced on Friday.

Four decades after mankind's giant leap, a look at the harrowing first lunar landing, the Apollo missions that never flew, and how the historic event looked from the Soviet Union

«Each mission became more scientifically productive as the program went on,» says Paul Spudis, senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

The timing of the lunar reveal was notable in at least one other respect, arriving as it did one day before the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17, the last mission to deliver astronauts to the moon.

«What is amazing is you can see this feature while the rim is very likely in front of the line of sight,» said Andreas Nathues, who is in charge of the mission's camera, and presented the images yesterday at the Lunar and Planetary Science conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas.

Just a few months into its mission, NASA's newest Mars orbiter is finding an assortment of oddities in the Martian atmosphere, researchers report March 18 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

An odd offset of the ice from the moon's current north and south poles was a tell - tale indicator to Siegler and prompted him to assemble a team of experts to take a closer look at the data from NASA's Lunar Prospector and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.

Two Japanese moon missions, Lunar A in 2004 and Selene 1 in 2005, will help determine what exactly is cooking at the middle of the moon.

These missions will in a short time lead to a longer - term mission at the lunar south pole.

Magnetized lunar material toted back during the Apollo missions established that the moon at some point had a magnetic field.

Nonscience parts of the space program have borne the brunt of the cuts, but a bevy of science missions are also at risk, including the resurrection of Russia's lunar program.

Despite these vastly different time spans, their results agree with findings from the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment that has been measuring the distance between Earth and the Moon since NASA's Apollo missions in the 1960s and has been able to monitor possible variations in G at very high precision.

At 29, I designed a lunar mission to map out all the elements and look for water.

Premier Wen Jiabao, visiting the scientists who have guided the lunar probe Chang» e 1 around the Moon since its launch on 24 October, praised the mission at a ceremony to unveil the image on Monday.

As well as Europa, the new NASA budget also provides the necessary funding to continue both the Opportunity rover mission on Mars and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon, both of which had been zeroed out in the President's earlier budget proposal.

The «Groovy Galilean Satellites» session at last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) covered the moons from a wide range of angles: analysis of past mission data, testable hypotheses for future missions, and discussion of the use of ground - based data.

China will attempt to land the Chang» e 3 rover on the moon at year's end, the first lunar surface mission since Russia's Luna 24 sample return lander in 1976.

While many in Congress and the space community call for stability and continuity at NASA — no big changes like those imposed by President Obama — an exception is made for the prospect of restoring lunar surface missions.

«The Earth - Trojan asteroid search provides a substantial advantage to the OSIRIS - REx mission,» Dante Lauretta, principal investigator on the project and professor of Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, said in a press release.

«The twofer that you would get out of this for science is pretty exciting,» said Jack Burns, director of the Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, which developed the mission concept.

«Kepler's original mission observed a small patch of sky as it was designed to conduct a demographic survey of the different types of planets,» said Ian Crossfield, a Sagan Fellow at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, who led the research effort.

The tests at Ames simulate a mission in which astronauts parked at Earth - moon Lagrange point 2 — a gravitationally stable spot located about 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) above the moon's surface — operate a rover on the lunar farside.

Before that yearlong lunar mission, however, there would be at least five missions, four of them crewed, to deliver hardware, such as a crew habitat, Williams said during his presentation.

Tom Sachs: Space Program documents his 2007 installation of a lunar module and control center, and a performance art staging of a complete «lunar» mission from launch to splashdown, at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills.

The journey will start at the Kennedy Space Center's historic Pad 39A near Cape Canaveral, Florida — the same launch pad used by the Apollo program for its lunar missions.

For its inaugural presentation at the Dallas Art Fair the Jason Jacques Gallery will present a curated selection of contemporary ceramic art juxtaposed with rare black - and - white photographs from NASA's famous lunar orbiter missions in the 1960s.

However, the Diviner mission has established that at the lunar equator, the warmest part of the surface, the mean temperature is just 206 K.