Tag Archives: Moon

A Tour of the Moon

Posted on April 12, 2018 by PlatoHagel

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/David Ladd This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4619 Dialogos of Eide

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Will humanity almost inevitably evolve into space colonizers?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Dialogos of Eide

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The Naming of Mars Craters: Concerns and Considerations

Posted on June 24, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Recently initiatives that capitalise on the public’s interest in space and astronomy have proliferated, some putting a price tag on naming space objects and their features, such as Mars craters. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) would like to emphasise that … Continue reading →

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Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft

Posted on February 18, 2014 by PlatoHagel

See: NASA Ames LADEE Mission: NASA Briefing Previews Lunar Mission   NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE, spacecraft has completed the check-out phase of its mission and has begun science operations around the moon. All the science instruments … Continue reading →

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GRAIL’s Gravity Tour of the Moon

Posted on December 8, 2012 by PlatoHagel

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/grail/20121205/GRAILtour20121205-640.swfEmbedded video from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology This movie shows the variations in the lunar gravity field as measured by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) during the primary mapping mission from March to May … Continue reading →

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Space policy of the Barack Obama administration

Posted on November 12, 2012 by PlatoHagel

The space policy of the Barack Obama administration was announced by U.S. President Barack Obama on April 15, 2010, at a major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center.[1] He committed to increasing NASA funding by $6 billion over five … Continue reading →

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Mining Helium 3 On the Moon

Posted on September 22, 2012 by PlatoHagel

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 … Continue reading →

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Moon Pictures

Posted on September 4, 2012 by PlatoHagel

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ LPOD Photo Gallery Motivation During the late 1800s and well into the 1900s it seemed that every book that described the craters, mountains and other features of Earth’s moon was titled The Moon. In my mind this came to … Continue reading →

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Grail At the Moon

Posted on August 28, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 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 … Continue reading →

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Mechanical Converted Sounds of Operation

Posted on August 9, 2012 by PlatoHagel

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 … Continue reading →

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