Collaborate Disseminate
“The first European Space Agency instrument to land on the Moon has detected the presence of negative ions on the lunar surface produced through interactions with the solar wind,” according to a statement from the agency, collecting over three hours of… Continue reading First Detection of Negative Ions on the Moon, Far-Side Soil Samples Headed to Earth
Commercial operations on the Moon won’t just be round-the-clock but round-the-calendar as ispace, inc. and the University of Leicester partner to develop nuclear heaters to allow future landers and rovers to survive the freezing lunar night.Continue Re… Continue reading New nuclear heaters use americium-241 to stop spacecraft freezing
Just a dozen humans in all of history have had the incredible experience of walking on the Moon. The best of the best. Our bravest and most competent. Earth’s ambassadors. Twelve men of incredible physical fitness and intellectual prowess.Continue Read… Continue reading NASA wants to end lunar faceplants by giving astronauts extra robot limbs
“Does a levitating robot train on the moon sound far-fetched?” asks LiveScience.
“NASA doesn’t seem to think so, as the agency has just greenlit further funding for a study looking into the concept.”
The project, called “Flexible Levitation on a Tra… Continue reading NASA’s Plan To Build a Levitating Robot Train on the Moon
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
The heat shield of the Orion spacecraft intended one day to carry astronauts to the moon under NASA’s Artemis program suffered unexpected damage in more than 100 places as the spacecraf… Continue reading NASA’s Moon Capsule Suffered Extensive Damage During 2022’s Test Flight
A little while ago, we talked about the concept of timezones and the Moon. It’s a complicated issue, because on Earth, time is all about the Sun and our local …read more Continue reading NASA Is Now Tasked With Developing A Lunar Time Standard, Relativity Or Not
Japan’s moon lander “has woken up again,” reports the Register, “having survived three lunar nights.”
A post on social media from the lander’s X account confirmed that once more, Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had defied the odds … Continue reading Japan’s Lunar Lander Made It Through Another Lunar Night
Japan’s moon lander “has woken up again,” reports the Register, “having survived three lunar nights.”
A post on social media from the lander’s X account confirmed that once more, Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had defied the odds … Continue reading Japan’s Moon Lander Made It Through Another Lunar Night
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Nature: The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a … Continue reading China Reveals Most Detailed Geological Map of the Moon Ever Created
Many asteroids can be traced back to their parent body – the planet or moon they broke off from. But for the first time, scientists now claim to have traced the origins of an asteroid back to the specific crater it was birthed from.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Nearby asteroid’s birthplace traced to specific crater on the Moon