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PASADENA, Calif. — A spacecraft orbiting Mars has spotted water ice in several impact craters midway between the north pole and equator — the first time ice so close to the surface has been discovered so far south on the red planet. Instruments...
A team of international scientists has found proof of water molecules on the moon’s surface for the first time ever, using data from India’s recently terminated Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission. The report was published on Wednesday in the online edition of...
Tags: moon, Indian Space Research Organisation, water molecules, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, India, Bangalore
There is indeed some water on the moon, with three different spacecraft seemingly putting to rest the scientific school of thought that the orb is bone-dry. Friday’s issue of the journal Science cites “unambiguous evidence” of either...
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A recent study by researchers has found evidence that prooves that a thin layer of water can be found covering the surface of the moon in some locations. This is a huge discovery as it prooves that there is much more water on the moon than had previously...
Tags: Moon, planet, space travel, water, life in space, technology, discovery
India successfully launched its 16th remote-sensing satellite Oceansat-2 and six small Europeans satellites on board a rocket that blasted off from here at 11.51 a.m.
Tags: moon, Moon, space explorers, India, Mumbai
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18, are offering a wide array of watery signals. October 9, will slam into a polar crater with the intention of ploughing up a plume of water ice for many telescopic eyes to see. The initial LRO results...
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Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort...They found that at the moon's south pole, it's colder than far away Pluto. The area is inside craters that are permanently shadowed so they never see...
Tags: moon, LRO, solar systems, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, south pole, Washington
Friday that they had picked a 60-mile-wide crater near the moon's south pole as the place where they will send a rocket to punch a hole in the lunar surface in search of water...If all goes according to plan, scientists say, the giant cloud of dust sent...
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A special advisory committee on the future of America's manned spaceflight program delivered a report to the White House on Tuesday that could help launch the country on an Apollo-style adventure to Mars, but which also warned darkly that any ambitious...
Tags: White House NASA, NASA Panel, Moon, space experts, human spaceflight
Madhavan Nair, the scientists of the respective space agencies will present the results, consisting of data, pictures and analysis for a detailed discussion of the 10-month-old mission, which had scientific and technology objectives," Satish said. The...
Tags: Indian Space Research Organization, space agency, Moon