Our Moon
News items about the Moon
Mar 12, 2010
"Genuine lunar water has been discovered in Apollo moon rocks, a finding that suggests the wet stuff originally came from comets."
Mar 10, 2010
Emily Lakdawalla reports on the results from the Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
Mar 8, 2010
Ice has been found at the Moon's South Pole. Now scientist report icy craters at the Moon's North Pole as well, containing perhaps as much as 600 million metric tons of water.
Mar 7, 2010
"A crater on the edge of the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin may a view of the original surface.‘
Mar 5, 2010
"The efficiency of the Apollo reflector arrays drops by a factor of ten during a full moon. Now a new analysis may explain why."
Mar 2, 2010
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Jan 27, 2010
A new theory proposes that the Moon formed after the explosion of a runaway nuclear georeactor in the Earth's mantle.
Jan 16, 2010
Tycho is a young crater on the Moon. This image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera shows the floor of the crater, which has been selected as a possible landing site in the Constellation program to return human beings to the Moon.
Jan 2, 2010
The Moon's extremely thin atmosphere, that is, its exosphere is extended diffuse cloud of ions surrounding the Moon. The latest measurements by Japan's lunar orbiter SELENE indicate that most of these ions are released from the lunar surface by photons from the Sun
Nov 15, 2009
Analysis of data from the recent NASA unmanned moon mission has revealed the presence of water in the lunar soil at the Moon's South Pole
