Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
Sir Bernard Lovell, the astronomer, was among the team listening to transmissions coming from the area of space and began tracking the unmanned Soviet spacecraft Luna 15, which was trying to collect samples of lunar soil and rock and then return to Earth before the US mission.
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IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.
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Images of Earth from Planetary Spacecraft Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
As spacecraft began to launch on journeys to more distant planets, never to return, their mission controllers often commanded them to take departing views of Earth and the Moon. Mariner 10 and Voyager 1 both took such snapshots, as did Mars Odyssey, Venus Express, and many others.
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Earth Critters Hitch Ride to Martian Moon and Back Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
No one knows if there is life on Mars, but if all goes well with a Russian science mission later this year, there will be life on the Martian moon Phobos -- for a short time anyway.
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Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its moon from 31 million miles away, making an alien's-eye view of our world. VIDEO
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Soyuz spacecraft lands off-target Posted: 2 years ago by topofall
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has returned to Earth, but came down more than 400km (250 miles) away from its planned touchdown point, say Russian officials.
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Suprise! Saturn Has Small Moon Hidden In Ring Posted: 9 months ago by suebe
Scientists have found a new moon hidden in one of Saturn's dazzling outer rings. The international Cassini spacecraft spotted the moon, which measures about a third of a mile wide.
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Cassini Spacecraft to Fly Through Moon's Geyser Posted: 2 years ago by ogri2003
The Cassini spacecraft will perform its closest flyby ever of Saturn's ice-spewing moon Enceladus early next year, moving directly into its icy polar geyser for a deep-space shower.
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Ulysses Spacecraft on Verge of Freezing. Posted: 2 years ago by xenity7
The spacecraft ulysses, currently in the 18th year of its mission has encountered a glitch which may doom it to a frozen death in space.
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Coolest spacecraft ever Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2.
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Early Moon Photos Revealed More Than Was Known Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Newly reprocessed images of the Moon's far side taken by Soviet spacecraft more than 40 years ago may have confirmed that the Moon's biggest impact scar was glimpsed far earlier than previously thought.
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UFO Crashed Into Meteorite to Save Earth Posted: 6 months ago by bingo
Did a UFO deliberately crash into a meteor to save Earth 100 years ago? That's what one Russian scientist is claiming.
Dr. Yuri Labvin, president of the Tunguska Spatial Phenomenon Foundation, insists that an alien spacecraft sacrificed itself to prevent a gigantic meteor from slamming into the planet above Siberia on June 30, 1908.
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Uranium found on the Moon Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists using data from the recently-Moon-smacked Kaguya spacecraft have found evidence of radioactive elements on the lunar surface, including, for the first time, uranium!
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Moon probe returns first images Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
The US space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned its first images since reaching the Moon on 23 June.
The probe's two cameras returned images of a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds).
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Amazing footage of lunar probe's final moments before it crashes into Moon Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Footage showing the dramatic descent of a probe minutes before it crashes into the surface of the Moon has been released by the Japanese space agency.
The final moments of the Kaguya lunar probe were caught by its on-board high-definition camera as it hurtled downwards on June 11 and as it fell the images were beamed back to Earth.
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Hardy Earth bacteria can grow in lunar soil Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A hardy life form called cyanobacteria can grow in otherwise inhospitable lunar soil, new experiments suggest. Future colonists on the Moon might be able to use the cyanobacteria to extract resources from the soil that could be used to make rocket fuel and fertiliser for crops.
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New portrait of Earth shows land cover as never before Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A new global portrait taken from space details Earth’s land cover with a resolution never before obtained. Earth’s land cover has been charted from space before, but this map, which will be made available to the public upon its completion in July, has a resolution 10 times sharper than any of its predecessors.
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Spacecraft Beams Home New Images of Mercury Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists are sifting through their first new views of the planet Mercury in more than three decades thanks to images beamed home by NASA's MESSENGER probe. The car-sized spacecraft zipped past Mercury in a Monday flyby and is relaying more than 1,200 new images and other data back to eager scientists on Earth.
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Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Beams Home First Images Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
The planet-seeking Kepler spacecraft has beamed home its first images of a patch of the sky where NASA hopes to find Earth-like planets circling distant, alien stars.
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Russia still blue over moon landing 40 years later Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, it was a first for the Soviet Union - the first time the U.S. had beaten the U.S.S.R in the space race. Forty years later, the memory of that loss of primacy still seems to sting the Russian soul.
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Space rock gives Earth a close shave Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
An asteroid of a similar size to a rock that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a thousand atomic bombs whizzed close past Earth on Monday, astronomers said on Tuesday. 2009 DD45, estimated to be between 21 and 47 meters (68 and 152 feet) across, raced by at 1344 GMT on Monday, the Planetary Society and astronomers' blogs reported.
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