[ad_1] © Reuters. The full moon is seen from West Orange in New Jersey By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump government is drawing up a legal plan to mine on the moon under a new international agreement sponsored by the United States called the Artemis Accords, people familiar …
Read More »Moon Not Dead: Scientists Discover Recent Tectonic Movement on Lunar Surface
[ad_1] Apollo 14 Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. assembles equipment on the lunar surface in Feburary 1971. (POT) In the latest, breakthrough research, scientists have found evidence of recent tectonic activity on the Moon’s surface. The study could overturn the long-held belief that the Moon is a dead celestial body …
Read More »Rare lunar meteorite found in the Sahara desert, listed for Rs 18 Crore
[ad_1] Christies presents NWA 12691, a significant moon rock, among the largest known. Moon rock is among the rarest substances on Earth, with less than 650 kg of lunar meteorites known to exist. This example is the fifth largest piece of the Moon on Earth, larger than any returned by …
Read More »NASA names companies to develop human landers for lunar missions
[ad_1] The Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft takes off from NASA’s Wallops flight facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, United States, on February 15, 2020. (Photo by Ting Shen / Xinhua) “With these contractual awards, the United States is moving forward with the final step necessary to land astronauts …
Read More »NASA chooses three contracts, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build new lunar landers
[ad_1] SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks at a post-launch press conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. (Image: Reuters) Lunar landers will carry astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and vice versa. Reuters Last update: May 1, 2020 1:25 p.m. IST NASA selected space firms SpaceX, …
Read More »Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ blue-origin land contracts to build NASA’s lunar astronaut
[ad_1] NASA selected space firms SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics on Thursday to build lunar landing systems that can take astronauts to the moon by 2024, the accelerated deadline for the White House under the campaign of the space agency of the Moon to Mars. The three companies, which include …
Read More »The most detailed map of moon geology ever published can help astronauts explore the lunar surface.
[ad_1] The US Geological Survey. USA (USGS) just released the most detailed map of all Moonsurface characteristics and geology like a rotating 3D moon. The map shows brightly colored dots on the lunar surface, representing different ages of geological features. The map unifies six separate maps of the moon topography …
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