LCROSS Impact Observer’s Guide
Put on your hard hat and get ready for action, because on Friday, Oct. 9th, what you just imagined is really going to happen – and…
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NASA Launches IBEX Mission to Outer Solar System
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT, Sunday. IBEX will be the…
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MESSENGER Prepares for Final Pass by Mercury
Messenger at Mercury. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA’s Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER will…
Read the articleLCROSS Reveals Target Crater for Lunar South Pole Impacts
Close up image of crater Cabeus A near the moon’s south pole and show crater elevation. Yellow represents lower elevations. Credit: NASA/JPL NASA has selected a…
Read the articleLRO Spacecraft Gets First Look at Apollo Landing Sites
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions’ lunar module descent…
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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras — a low resolution…
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The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, successfully completed its most significant early mission milestone Tuesday with a lunar swingby and calibration of its…
Read the articleNASA Returning to the Moon
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will…
Read the articleOur Oblate Sun
Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision, and they find that it is not a perfect sphere. During…
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WASHINGTON — A NASA spacecraft will conduct the second of three flybys of Mercury on Oct. 6 to photograph most of its remaining unseen surface and…
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