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The Moon as seen from the International Space Station

The Moon as seen by the crew aboard the International Space Station.

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Ancient Crater Could Hold Clues About Moon's Mantle

The South Pole Aitken basin

Researchers from Brown University and the University of Hawaii have found some mineralogical surprises in the Moon's largest impact crater.

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LADEE Instruments Are Healthy and Ready for Science

Now in orbit around the moon, NASA's newest lunar mission has completed the commissioning phase, and its science instruments have passed their preliminary checks.

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LADEE Begins Collecting Lunar Atmosphere Data

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is ready to begin collecting science data about the Moon.

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GRAIL Mission Puts a New Face on the Moon

Scientists using data from the lunar-orbiting twins of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are gaining new insight into how the face of the moon received its rugged good looks. A report on the asymmetric distribution of lunar impact basins is published in this week's edition of the journal Science.

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LADEE Laser Communication System Sets Record

NASA's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) has made history using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239,000 miles between the moon and Earth at a record-breaking download rate of 622 megabits per second (Mbps).

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A Human Voice Speaks From The Moon Once Again

On 9 October 2013 at 5:31 pm PDT (10 Oct 00:31 UTC) NASA's LADEE spacecraft played back a recording of someone talking from lunar orbit. The person speaking was Mike Wargo, a NASA scientist who had died several months earlier.

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Misplaced Lunar Orbiter Imagery Found After 46 Years

High resolution imagery from the Lunar Orbiter program, forgotten for nearly 50 years, has been retrieved from original data tapes.

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LADEE Has Entered Lunar Orbit

According to someone at NASA: "Early this morning (October 6), we fired LADEE's main engine in a braking maneuver known as the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) burn."

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The New Race for the Moon

The rise of China, rapidly accelerating technology, the increasing pace of lunar discoveries and the growing viability of lunar mining are drawing multiple countries and companies into development of new missions to the Moon.

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Luna 17 Tracks and Other Spacecraft on the Moon

Repeat imaging of anthropogenic targets on the Moon remains an Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) priority as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Extended Science Mission continues.

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NASA ScienceCasts: The Harvest Moon

The full Moon closest to the northern autumnal equinox is coming this week.

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Apollo 11 Under the Sea

ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy and ESA astronaut instructor Hervé Stevenin slipped into the roles of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin last week for an underwater simulation of the historic mission to the Moon.

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LADEE is Heading For The Moon with One Small Glitch

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) launched on time Friday night at 11:27 pm EDT aboard a Minotaur V rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The LADEE mission will orbit the Moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust.

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Lunar Twilight Rays Puzzle From the 60's to be Studied by LADEE

Back in the 60s and 70s, Apollo astronauts circling the Moon saw something that still puzzles researchers today. About 10 seconds before lunar sunrise or lunar sunset, pale luminous streamers would pop up over the gray horizon. These "twilight rays" were witnessed by crewmembers of Apollo 8, 10, 15 and 17.

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