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Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from Gizmodo: A team of researchers think they’ve discovered a cave on the Moon in radar images of the lunar surface, which they posit could be a future site for an established human presence on our … Continue reading Radar Images Suggest There’s a Tunnel On the Moon
Scientists have developed what could be a much quicker and easier technique for astronauts to make building-construction bricks out of lunar soil. The secret lies in heating that moon dust, then sticking it in an aerospace-grade microwave oven.Continue… Continue reading New microwave process could let astronauts make bricks out of moon dust
“Russia has finally admitted that American astronauts did, in fact, land on the moon,” reports Newsweek:
Head of Russian Space Corporation Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, accepted the truth of the U.S. putting a man on the moon in an address to the State Dum… Continue reading Russia’s Space Chief Finally Admits US Landed on Moon
There have been a couple of high-profile solar eclipses lately, but like us, you probably missed the news of the one that passed over Munich in 2019. And every day …read more Continue reading Enjoy Totality Every Day With This Personal Eclipse Generator
A somewhat scorched Chang’e-6 return craft landed in Inner Mongolia yesterday, bringing with it the first rock and dust samples from the far side of the Moon – and hopes of unlocking some lunar secrets.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Chin… Continue reading China first to haul back rocks from the far side of the Moon
When I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. This same sun-and-a-handful-of-planets scheme repeated itself …read more Continue reading The Solar System is Weirder Than You Think
“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