During the December 2011 lunar eclipse, scientists will be able to get a unique view of the moon. While the sun is blocked by the Earth, LRO's Diviner instrument will take the temperature on the lunar surface. Since different rock sizes cool at different rates, scientists will be able to infer the size and density of rocks on the moon.
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Solar storms and associated Coronal Mass Ejections can significantly erode the lunar surface according to a new set of computer simulations by NASA scientists. 
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One of the solar system's most evocative mysteries — the origin of Saturn's rings — may have been created by an unnamed moon of Saturn that disappeared about 4.5 billion years ago in a forced plunge into Saturn leaving behind...
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The Shackleton Energy Company (SEC) is looking to make space travel much, much cheaper by establishing the first operational lunar base to produce...
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NASA successfully completed the final flight in a series of tests of a new robotic lander prototype at the Redstone Test Center’s propulsion test facility on the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal.
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The new topographic map -- the highest resolution ever created -- shows surface shape and features over nearly the entire moon.
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Moon Express co-founder Naveen Jain gives SPACE.com an update on the company's plans to build a lunar lander, and how he envisions the future for commercial robotic trips to the moon.
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Astronomy | Maik Thomas | No, that's not as typo in the title!I follow a lot of photographers on Google+; it's a great place for them to showcase their work.
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A new model for generating a global magnetic field in the ancient moon could help solve a 40-year-old mystery.
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Astronomy | Earth | Space Shuttle astronaut Ron Garan should be familiar to regular BA readers; I've featured a lot of the photos he's taken from space here on the blog.
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Although treaties forbid ownership, the powerful nation would have little resistance when laying claim to lunar resources.
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NASA is inviting students to help name its new moon mission, currently titled GRAIL (Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory). Kids can submit names for the two lunar gravity-mapping probes.
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In a report issued by the agency's inspector general on Thursday, NASA concedes that more than 500 pieces of moon rocks, meteorites, comet chunks and other space material were stolen or have been missing since 1970. That includes 218 moon samples that were stolen and later returned and about two dozen moon rocks and chunks of lunar soil that were reported lost last year.
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International boffins, poring over the results from mighty telescopes both spacegoing and ground-bound, say they have identified at least 16 potentially habitable Earth-like planets orbiting other stars: and at least 30 potentially habitable moons along the lines of the scientifictional Endor and Pandora, orbiting planets in other solar systems.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and a team of international researchers from Mars Institute and SETI Institute returned to the Mojave Desert this month to complete a series of field tests and simulations aimed at investigating how humans will conduct...
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This flyover of the lunar surface gives the most comprehensive picture of the moon to date. Created by researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and NASA, the virtual ride is made up of 70,000 still images captured by a wide-angle camera aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) from an altitude of 50 kilometers.
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NEW YORK CITY—”Beyond Planet Earth,” the slick new exhibit on space exploration at the American Museum of Natural History, is thoroughly modern. It has an augmented-reality iPhone app that produces hovering, three-dimensional animations. It has an interactive station where museumgoers can terraform a virtual Mars on a giant touch-screen to make the Red Planet habitable. It even has an interactive display that challenges visitors to divert a giant asteroid bearing down on Earth.
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How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it.
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Pack your rockets. The newest national park may be on the moon.
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NASA says asteroid 2005 YU55 will come slightly closer to the moon than the Earth, but it threatens neither. In fact, there are no asteroids in the entire solar system that could destroy the moon.
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A Russian space official thinks the future of manned lunar settlement will begin inside moon caves.
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Billionaire Naveen Jain thinks that the moon's precious minerals as well as its mystique are worth exploration.
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