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Lunar Hydrogen More Abundant on Moon's Pole-Facing Slopes

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Space travel is difficult and expensive it would cost thousands of dollars to launch a bottle of water to the moon.

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Video: The Moon - A View From The Other Side

The Moon - A View From The Other Side.

A number of people who've seen NASA's annual lunar phase and libration videos have asked what the other side of the Moon looks like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth. This video answers that question. The imagery was created using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.

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Moonrise From Orbit

@NASA_Astronauts "As far as you can see over the horizon. #Moonrising" #AstroButch

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Video: Destination Moon - The European Space Agency Vision

This 8-minute film gives an overview of the past, present, and future of Moon exploration, from the Lunar cataclysm to European Space Agency's vision of what Lunar exploration could be.

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Full Moon Viewed From The Space Station

This image shows a full moon as viewed from the International Space Station (ISS) on 3 January 2015.

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3-D Printing a Moonbase

Could astronauts one day be printing rather than building a base on the Moon? In 2013 ESA, working with industrial partners, proved that 3D printing using lunar material was feasible in principle.

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LRO Captures Images of LADEE's Impact Crater

NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission.

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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Finds Widespread Evidence of Young Lunar Volcanism

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has provided researchers strong evidence the moon's volcanic activity slowed gradually instead of stopping abruptly a billion years ago.

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Lunar Topography

Topography of Earth's moon generated from data collected by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, with the gravity anomalies bordering the Procellarum region superimposed in blue.

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GRAIL Mission Points to Origin of the Ocean of Storms on the Moon

Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), mission scientists have solved a lunar mystery almost as old as the moon itself.

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Looking at the Moon's North Pole

The greyscale pattern of dark and light blotches on the Moon is a familiar sight to stargazers. However, there are regions that remained relatively mysterious to us until surprisingly recently - most notably the Moon's polar regions, which astronomers have dubbed 'Luna Incognita', or 'the unknown Moon'.

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Asteroid 2014 OL339: Yet Another Earth Quasi-satellite

Our planet has one permanently bound satellite -the Moon-, a likely large number of mini-moons or transient irregular natural satellites, and three temporary natural retrograde satellites or quasi-satellites.

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Google Lunar XPRIZE Team Hangout - Inspiring Generations with SpaceIL

CosmoQuest hosted a Google Hangout with Google Lunar XPRIZE team from Israel SpaceIL. Learn how they've risen to become a major Moon effort, their plans, and how they remain dedicated to inspiring people to get involved with STEM and space.

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New Study: Electric Sparks May Alter Evolution of Lunar Soil

The moon appears to be a tranquil place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the soil in the moon's coldest craters through the process of sparking--a finding that could change our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system.

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ATV Georges Lemaitre Approaches the ISS

A portion of the International Space Station's Zvezda Service Module with the newly attached "Georges Lemaitre" Automated Transfer Vehicle-5 (ATV-5) is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member onboard the station.

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