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  • What is LROC?

    [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) The LROC team assembled 10,581 NAC images, collected over 4 years, into a spectacular northern polar mosaic. The LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) is likely one of the world’s largest image mosaics in existence, or at least publicly available on the web, with over 680 gigapixels of valid…

  • Mining Helium 3 On the Moon

    Helium-3 (He-3, sometimes called tralphium[1]) is a light, non-radioactive isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. It is rare on the Earth, and it is sought for use in nuclear fusion research. The abundance of helium-3 is thought to be greater on the Moon (embedded in the upper layer of regolith by the…

  • Grail At the Moon

     Grail Recovery and Interior Labratory NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft successfully completed its planned main engine burn at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST) today. As of 3 p.m. PST (6 p.m. EST), GRAIL-A is in a 56-mile (90-kilometer) by 5,197-mile (8,363-kilometer) orbit around the moon that takes approximately 11.5 hours to…

  • Mechanical Converted Sounds of Operation

    MSL Curiosity’s Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, with a ruler ChemCam: ChemCam is a suite of remote sensing instruments, including the first laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) system to be used for planetary science and a remote micro-imager (RMI). See also: Curiosity rover#Chemistry and Camera complex (ChemCam) Alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS): This device can irradiate samples with…

  • Grail: Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory

    GRAIL Spacecraft Logo NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, spacecraft logo is emblazoned on the first stage of a United Launch Alliance Delta II launch vehicle, now secured in the gantry at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 17B. Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann Mission Overview The GRAIL mission will place two…

  • LRO’s Crater Science Investigations

    If you want to learn more about the history of Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system, craters are a great place to look. Now, thanks to LRO’s LROC instrument, we can take a much closer look at Linné Crater on the moon–a pristine crater that’s great to use to compare with other…

  • The Lunar Far Side: The Side Never Seen from Earth

                                                                Mass concentration (astronomy) This figure shows the topography (top) and corresponding gravity (bottom) signal of Mare Smythii at the Moon. It nicely illustrates the term “mascon”. Author Martin Pauer…

  • LCROSS Observes Water on Moon

    Data from the ultraviolet/visible spectrometer taken shortly after impact showing emission lines (indicated by arrows). These emission lines are diagnostic of compounds in the vapor/debris cloud.Credit: NASA LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon11.13.09 The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the moon has been holding, for…

  • Universality Can Lead too, Isostatic Adjustment

    Pressure and heat melts protons and neutrons into a new state of matter – the quark gluon plasma. Quark Gluon Plasma Now you must know that this entry holds philosophical perspective and is the mandate of Night Light Mining Company to explore the potentials of planetary and geological data gained from scientific analysis to help…

  • Plato’s Nightlight Mining Company is claiming Aristarchus Crater and Surrounding Region

    So what is the legality of claiming land on the moon? What regions would you like to claim if you had the opportunity to make such a claim? Imagine  Covered Wagons racing now as spaceships. Racing, to plant their posts too include, so many acres of land. When the Bugle Sounded: Stampede for Oklahoma’s Unassigned…