Sentences with phrase «over lunar surfaces»

Google Lunar X-Prize A largely privately funded, $ 30 million international competition to land a robot safely on the moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and then send images and data back to Earth.

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While a commercial Moon delivery service may seem like a novelty to some, Astrobotic CEO Jim Thornton knows that such a service fills a very real need in the marketplace — in fact, as Thornton explains to Chad Anderson in this week's Space Angels podcast, Astrobotic has over a hundred deals in their pipeline, all awaiting rides to the lunar surface.

Now images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal 14 more, all over the moon's surface.

Brown University researchers have produced new evidence that lunar swirls — wispy bright regions scattered on the Moon's surface — were created by several comet collisions over the last 100 million years.

NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini missions and the Indian probe Chandrayaan - 1 last year reported detecting a water film only a few molecules thick over large parts of the lunar surface.

That CO gas was responsible for the fire fountains that sprayed volcanic glass over parts of the lunar surface.

But it also overwrote parts of the cratering record up to 500 kilometers away from the basin, reducing crater counts over an area of roughly three million square kilometers, or about 8 percent of the lunar surface.

As the trailing LCROSS spacecraft approached the lunar surface, documenting the debris cloud en route to its own impact just a few minutes later, LRO had its own spectrometer trained on the airspace over Cabeus.

A new study tracing the history of one of those moon rocks, published in this week's Science, adds fuel to a long - running debate over the source of the faint magnetism present on the lunar surface.

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.

This material — vaporized and molten rock — shoots over the surface, disturbing the upper layer of lunar soil and changing its brightness.

Together they reveal what Taylor calls lunar «dew»: a smidgen of water distributed all over the moon's surface.

The Miniature Moon Wall is a portable system that utilizes data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter to enable the use to «fly» over the surface of the Moon.

The Moon Wall is a museum exhibit at Adler Planetarium that utilizes data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter to enable the use to «fly» over the surface of the Moon.

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Still, in the confusion, we found a few cliffs with unforgettable views over the hypnotizing valley and enjoyed its lunar surface from above.

All this takes place while LRO is traveling faster than 3,580 miles per hour (over 1,600 meters per second) relative to the lunar surface below the spacecraft!

Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average

Those numbers are meaningless as the average temperature of the surface of the Moon is between 80 °C on the lit face and -200 °C on the dark face and averaged over a lunar day it's 98 K at the poles and 206 K at the equator.

The sun moves slowly through the sky so the amount of solar radiation incident on the surface varies over the course of the lunar «day».