Sentences with phrase «further lunar exploration»
NASA later returned to the moon with the Clementine (1992) and Lunar Prospector (1998) probes for further lunar exploration.
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Its lunar exploration program is also increasingly science - driven, with a sample return mission scheduled for next year and the first ever landing on the far side of the moon planned for 2018.
According to Glotch, the discovery of nonbasaltic volcanoes on the far side of the moon «shows that the moon is more compositionally diverse than we realized before this new age of lunar exploration.»