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Time isn’t as constant as we might think. The Earth’s rotation is changing, which affects how many hours are in a day and how many days in a year. Now palaeontologists have managed to precisely measure how long days and years were back in the age of th… Continue reading Dinosaurs saw shorter days and longer years, says fossil shell study
The Minor Planet Center has announced that Earth now has two moons. But don’t bother running outside to check – this second satellite is tiny and temporary.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Earth, Moon, Asteroid Continue reading Earth has picked up a tiny second moon
China’s pioneering mission to explore the far side of the Moon continues to shed new light on this relatively unknown territory, with scientists using instruments aboard the unmanned Chang’e-4 spacecraft to peek beneath the surface for the first time. The probe’s rover module has used onboard radar to penetrate deep into the Moon to help scientists build a picture of the subsurface structure, offering new clues on its turbulent history.
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Continue reading China’s Chang’e-4 probe peers beneath the surface of Moon’s far side
In case you thought that we learned everything we need to know to land on the Moon fifty years ago, think again. NASA still has a lot of questions, and has scheduled the first of many commercial missions designed to fill in the blanks. As part of the Artemis program, …read more
The Apollo missions still inspire people today, decades after they took place. A fortunate side effect of the global public relations campaign is that a lot of information is publicly available for us to review and process. We’re right around the 19th anniversary of Apollo 14 mission, so it was …read more
Continue reading Deploy Workaround Code To The Field When “The Field” Is Lunar Orbit
India has approved its third lunar mission months after its last one failed to successfully land on the moon, its space agency said on Wednesday, the latest effort in its ambitions to become a low-cost space power. From a report: The Chandrayaan-3 miss… Continue reading India Approves Third Moon Mission, Months After Landing Failure
For nearly as long as there has been radio, there have been antennas trained on the sky, looking at the universe in a different light than traditional astronomy. Radio astronomers have used their sensitive equipment to study the Sun, the planets, distant galaxies, and strange objects from the very edge …read more
Continue reading See You On the Dark Side of the Moon: China’s Lunar Radio Observatory
What does Pluto — not the dog, but the non-Planet — have in common with the Vikram lunar lander launched by India? Both were found by making very tiny comparisons to photographs. You’d think landing something on the moon would be old hat by now, but it turns out only …read more
Continue reading Chandrayaan-2 Found by Citizen Scientist; Reminds Us of Pluto Discovery
A NASA satellite has found India’s Vikram lander, which crashed on the lunar surface in September. The Guardian reports: Nasa released an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that showed the site of the spacecraft’s impact and associat… Continue reading India’s Crashed Vikram Moon Lander Spotted On Lunar Surface
NPR reports: Back in September, India’s hopes for a historic first ended — inconclusively. High hopes had been riding on its Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. The spacecraft was sending a landing vehicle down to the moon — an operation that, if successful, woul… Continue reading 2 Months After Failed Moon Landing, India Acknowledges Its Craft Crashed