Sentences with phrase «many lunar scientists»

Although those missions could be seen as stepping stones to a later asteroid mission, many lunar scientists view the region as a destination in its own right (see «Moonstruck»).

But «the simple fact that each mission was providing a great scientific return didn't really impress very many people other than lunar scientists.»

Lunar scientists have much at stake, too.

Convened last week in Sydney by the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research, the event brought together mining companies, robotics experts, lunar scientists and government agencies that are all working to make space mining a reality.

The good news for lunar scientists is that the new results are consistent with earlier findings.

When these failings became evident, shortly after Apollo, lunar scientists» disillusionment was complete.

IT IS the best of times and the worst of times for lunar scientists.

According to Clive Neal, a lunar scientist at the University of Notre Dame, any moon - versus - Mars argument is a nonstarter.

Our celestial satellite is a strategic asset, says Clive Neal, a lunar scientist at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and one that has been missing - in - action in current NASA exploration plans.

And a mission to return a sample from the moon's largest impact crater would have been some comfort to lunar scientists still smarting from Obama's decision to redirect NASA's crewed space exploration from the moon to near - Earth asteroids.

«The definitive measurements have yet to be made,» argues lunar scientist Paul Spudis of Johns Hopkins University.

Last week, lunar scientists made a splash when they announced that three spacecraft — India's Chandrayaan - 1 craft and NASA's Cassini and Deep Impact probes — have detected water's spectral signature over much of the moon's surface.

Paul Spudis, a lunar scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston who did not contribute to the new research, says that the graphite indeed appears to have a violent origin but that it is less clear just which impactor produced it.

The number of new craters found by Speyerer and colleagues is greater than anticipated by standard impact - modeling rates used by lunar scientists.

u On 10 November 1971, Dr. Harold Urey, a Nobel prize - winning chemist and lunar scientist, stated «I do not know the origin of the moon, I'm not sure of my own or any other's models, I'd lay odds against any of the models proposed being correct.»

Not exact matches

For one, scientists would pay a pretty penny to send up equipment that could study the lunar body.

Our third expedition will bring back samples of lunar dust and rocks that everyone can own, providing scientists with a new source of lunar materials for research, and making these treasures from the Moon available to collectors and commercial purposes.

Experts appearing include Anjana Ahuja, science writer for The Times, Dr Kevin Fong, Co-Director of the Centre for Aviation Space, UCL Professor Gerard de Groot, author of Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent madness of the American Lunar Quest and Sima Adya, Space Missions Scientist.

That's potentially problematic, because planetary scientists use the number of small impact craters to estimate the age of the lunar surface.

Planetary scientist Heather Meyer, now at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, used data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to...

In research that may prove useful to future lunar explorers, scientists from Brown University have created the first quantitative map of water and its chemical building blocks trapped in the uppermost portion of the Moon's soil.

That perspective helped solve mysteries about the planet and its moons that could not be tackled any other way, scientists said March 19 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

One of those researchers, Renee Weber, a lunar and planetary scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, detected hundreds of new moonquakes in the old data.

Since the 1960's scientists thought that only in permanently shadowed areas in craters near the lunar poles was it cold enough to accumulate this volatile material, but recent observations by a number of spacecraft, including LRO, suggest that hydrogen on the moon is more widespread.

Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions — a permanently shadowed crater on the moon.

«All these mechanisms seem to work, but we still didn't know which is the dominant source of lunar water,» says NASA scientist Alan Stern, who was not involved in the new work.

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space - based radiation as measured by a UNH - led detector aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel.

Scientists called the dust lunar regolith, from the Greek rhegos for «blanket» and lithos for «stone.»

«They found moondust in every nook and cranny,» says William Larson of the Kennedy Space Center, a lead scientist and program manager in NASA's efforts to develop techniques for using lunar resources.

While scientists have speculated on the presence of neon in the lunar atmosphere for decades, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first lunar atmosphere for decades, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first time.

In 2001, however, a team of scientists reported that the isotopic compositions of a variety of elements in terrestrial and lunar rocks are nearly identical.

«Sometimes they'll happen and you'll have to be somewhere else on Earth to see them,» said Noah Petro, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Most [residents] of the continental United States will be able to see the whole thing.»

But scientists could piggyback on those journeys to study topics such as the plasma environment around the lunar poles, or to begin establishing a network of geophysical landers that would listen for moonquakes.

But the announcement was «a little bit premature», rover scientist Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, told researchers at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, on Monday.

Their finding that the lunar rocks are enriched in the heavier potassium isotope does not favor the silicate atmosphere model, which predicts lunar rocks will contain less of the heavier isotope than terrestrial rocks, the opposite of what the scientists found.

«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.

NASA scientist Noah Petro sheds some light on the April 15, 2014, lunar eclipse that will leave the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in darkness for several hlunar eclipse that will leave the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in darkness for several hLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in darkness for several hours.

The measurements have also played a vital role in UNH space scientists» efforts to develop both the first Web - based tool for predicting and forecasting the radiation environment in near - Earth, lunar, and Martian space environments and a space radiation detector that possesses unprecedented performance capabilities.

A postdoc at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona and an associate research scientist with the Planetary Science Institute, Richmond is frustrated by her struggle for stability.

«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.

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.

If scientists can collect and analyze samples of the terrestrial oxygen embedded in lunar soil, it could provide insights into how Earth's atmosphere has evolved over the eons.

Another piece of evidence that this oxygen came from Earth was how far the ions penetrated into the lunar soil, the scientists said.

«I'm so happy they made the right decision,» says Edgard Rivera - Valentín, a planetary scientist who works jointly at the observatory and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.

Still, the hunt for nonterran life could be accomplished with a tool familiar in any biology lab, scientists suggested here yesterday at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and in a paper in press at Astrobiology.

Last month the government banned four scientists — including former ISRO head G. Madhavan Nair, who oversaw India's successful Chandrayaan - 1 lunar probe in 2008 — from holding a government position for the rest of their lives.

Planetary scientist Matt Siegler at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and colleagues made the discovery while examining NASA data known to indicate lunar polar hydrogen.

Since the rocks took significantly longer to cool, then scientists could rule out asteroids as the main driver of ancient lunar magnetism.

The south pole also intrigues planetary scientists who believe some of the rocks there may have originated deep within the lunar interior.