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Posted on May 20, 2020May 20, 2020

Venus Meets Mercury This Weekend in a Fine Dusk Conjunction

Mercury and Venus

What’s that? You say you’ve never seen elusive Mercury for yourself? You won’t have an excuse after this weekend, when the innermost world meets brilliant Venus at dusk in what is known as a planetary conjunction, one of the best for 2020.

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Posted on January 8, 2020January 8, 2020

Our Guide to this Friday’s Penumbral Lunar Eclipse

Penumbral Eclipse

Ready for the very first lunar eclipse of the year? The first eclipse season of 2020 comes to an end Friday, with a penumbral lunar eclipse. This season overlaps with 2019, when it kicked off with the Boxing Day annular solar eclipse of December 26th, 2019.

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Episode 656: Searching For Ice In The Moon’s Shadowed Craters

When you’re out in space, water is the most precious resource you can get your hands on. It can be used for air, water, to grow food, radiation shielding, and most importantly, as the propellant for your spacecraft.

Exploration of the Moon has revealed that there’s a tremendous amount of water ice locked into the regolith, but it’s probably very difficult to access. But there are also permanently shadowed craters at the Moon’s poles that could have more than enough water to support a permanently inhabitable station on the Moon.

But it’s going to be tricky to get at, considering the fact that temperatures in the shadows plunge to -240 degrees Celsius, just 30 degrees above absolute zero.

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References:
https://theprint.in/science/discovery-of-water-on-moon-what-indias-first-chandrayaan-mission-achieved-a-decade-ago/317591/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/ice-confirmed-at-the-moon-s-poles
https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/chang-e-4
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/06/china-publishes-change-4-data-one-year-after-first-landing-on-far-side-of-the-moon/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-cubesat-will-shine-a-laser-light-on-the-moons-darkest-craters
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/lunar-flashlight/
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9076196
http://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Laser-powered_rover_to_explore_Moon_s_dark_shadows
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Rovers_drive_through_Tenerife_darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eney3cJBtow

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