But much of the rest goes toward goals largely absent from the planetary science community's consensus planning, namely the new push
for lunar exploration.
Almost exactly a year after the Apollo
lunar exploration program wound down, and smack - dab in the middle of the Watergate scandal, Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to encounter Jupiter, snapping this picture of the giant planet's icy moon, Europa.
«We are really poised to take advantage of this next era
of lunar exploration and the opportunities these commercial companies are going to open up for us.»
Beyond Zero @ Calvert 22 A surreal group show
about lunar exploration with my favourite work being a clock by Vadim Fishkin that compresses a 24 hour cycle into a minute with the room lights reacting accordingly.
Professor Wang Jianyu, commander in chief of China's quantum satellite project who was also involved
in lunar exploration missions, agreed.
Although the specifics of
manned lunar exploration over the coming decades are unclear, many experts see vast opportunities for space - faring bodies to work in concert toward loftier goals.
«The full success of our country's first
lunar exploration mission is helping to turn the Chinese nation's 1000 - year old dream of reaching the Moon a reality,» Wen said.
«We're not just about America going back to the moon; we're about American industry and American entrepreneurial spirit leading the rest of the world to an exciting era of
human lunar exploration,» Stern said in a statement.
This historic ruling is a breakthrough U.S. policy decision supporting our
commercial lunar exploration and discovery and heralding a new era of expanding space enterprise.
It is equal to a one - percent difference in the neutron signal detected by LRO's
Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) instrument.
Liu Tongjie, the deputy director for the second - phase project of the
China Lunar Exploration Program, said Chang» e 2 new position allows it to tackle two scientific tasks: observing the Earth's magnetic field and charting solar storms, according to a China Daily report.
While there is debate about the political will to
sustain lunar exploration (see «The Future of NASA,» DISCOVER, September 2006), the technical hurdles are beyond dispute.
On 12 February, he proposed a 2019 budget that would allow the agency to begin planning a US$ 200 - million
lunar exploration programme.
For US Moon researchers, Trump's plan is the first chance for an extended research programme since President Barack Obama
cancelled lunar exploration plans in 2010.
However, models of the internal structure of the Moon as derived from past research could not account for the deformation precisely observed by the
above lunar exploration programs.
«It's a part of the Earth,» says Bernard Foing, director of the
International Lunar Exploration Working Group, a forum sponsored by multiple space agencies.
While the U.S. partners focus
on lunar exploration, the White House is more intrigued by missions to asteroids and Phobos and Deimos as a precursor to a human landing on the Red Planet in the distant future.
A new study maps the trace concentrations of water implanted in the lunar soil by the solar wind, a water source that could be used as resource in
future lunar exploration.
Beginning with the moment when apes begin cognitive thought and jumping to
early lunar exploration, continuing with a manned journey to Jupiter and the development and understanding of non-linear time, 2001: A Space Odyssey tackles some of the most essential topics of humanity and nature.
Even
though Lunar Exploration is miles away from the real racing, it gives you a deep insight into how rovers work in the outerspace, typical educational experience from team Gran Turismo.
When you are not participating heavily in championships, take a look around and you will find side missions like the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the
outrageous Lunar Exploration.
Robert Jastrow, a physicist and astronomer, the first chairman of NASA's
Lunar Exploration Committee, and the founding director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (succeeded in this position by James Hansen, who disgraced that institution).
My Moon is an irreverent co-moon-ity from the Lunar Planetary Institute that is focused on connecting those «under 35» to resources, experts and other information
about lunar exploration.
With more
manned lunar exploration a decade or two away, the mysteries of the moon's geologic past remain in the realm of competing hypotheses.
In addition, at least $ 5 million in bonuses are available for milestones such as finding relics from the US Apollo Moon landings, or from
Soviet lunar explorations, detecting water ice or keeping the rover alive on the lunar surface overnight.
«Although the upcoming mission is very risky, I have full confidence [in our success],» Liu Jizhong, deputy commander of China's
lunar exploration program, told S&T Daily.
Explore the history of the U.S. space program, beginning with the response to the launch of Sputnik, followed by the successes and failures of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, finally culminating in the era
of lunar exploration.
The project's backers hope that this will help kickstart a new era
in lunar exploration, while creating a legacy for the way space missions are funded.
If regolith is the curse of
lunar exploration, it may also prove to be a blessing.
«I'm excited about
the lunar exploration campaign, but concerned we're not making enough investments to get to the surface,» says David Kring, a planetary scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.
She and other US scientists, in a collaboration known as
the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, have been churning out studies on how future missions might answer key science questions.
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.
The 1971 image of Alan Shepard hammering a golf ball across the moonscape with a six iron during Apollo 14 remains etched in the popular mind as the end of
lunar exploration.
Some of the above - mentioned mirrors have been left on the surface of the Moon in the framework of
the lunar exploration programs led by the USA or the former USSR several decades ago, such as the Apollo program.
It's the country's first probe to venture beyond Earth orbit, allowing India to join a decade of
lunar exploration that is due to begin next month with the launch of Europe's SMART 1 probe (Science, 2 May, p. 724).
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.»
China raised the curtain today on the most ambitious act yet of
its lunar exploration program.
You can also ask him about suborbital space research or
lunar exploration.
He talked about science fiction things such as skywriting, video conferencing, electric submarines, tasers,
lunar exploration, television and Tivo many years before they ever became «real».
BOLT Resident Joseph G. Cruz investigates representations of nineteenth - century polar expeditions, satellite imagery, and
lunar exploration.