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NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Gets an Art Lesson with Lasers

January 17, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter In the ultimate example of science imitating art, engineers working with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the LRO and back via laser beam in order to measure the rate of transmission between the [...]

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What Craters on the Moon Teach Us About Earth

January 10, 2013

When the Moon was receiving its highest number of impacts, so was Earth. Credit: Dan Durda Some questions about our own planet are best answered by looking someplace else entirely… in the case of impact craters and when, how and how often they were formed, that someplace can be found shining down on us nearly [...]

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The South Rim of Aristarchus

December 30, 2012

LROC view looking obliquely of the south rim of Aristarchus from the west (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University) Flying over at an altitude of 135 km, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this lovely oblique view of the crater Aristarchus, looking down at the 40-km (25-mile) -wide crater’s southern rim from the west. The broad flank of Aristarchus’ [...]

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The First Photo From The Moon

July 20, 2012

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” After speaking these historic words at 10:56 EDT on July 20, 1969, marking the moment that humanity first placed a foot on a world other than its own, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong began his work documenting the lunar surface before him. The [...]

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Kickstart Your DNA (And a Rover) To The Moon!

July 9, 2012

Omega Envoy, the non-profit research lab Earthrise Space, Inc.’s team competing for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, has launched a Kickstarter project to help fund a 4-axis CNC milling machine needed to continue development on their proposed lunar rover. CNC machines don’t come cheap, but in typical Kickstarter fashion Earthrise Space is offering incremental rewards [...]

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