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LADEE Project Update: 100 Days of Science Observations

LADEE in Lunar Orbit

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) just achieved a very important milestone: 100 days of prime science.

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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Views Chang'e Landing Site

Chang'e 3 On The Moon

Chang'e 3 landed on the moon's Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains), on Dec. 14, 2013. The LROC instrument aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has now imaged the Chinese lander and rover three times.

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Record-Breaking Lunar Impact Observed

A meteorite with the mass of a small car crashed into the Moon last September, according to Spanish astronomers.

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NASA Extends LADEE Moon Exploring Satellite Mission

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE, observatory has been approved for a 28-day mission extension.

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LRO Captures Image of LADEE In Lunar Orbit

Imaging NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft with LROC required extremely precise timing, worked out by the LADEE, LROC, and LRO operations teams.

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Geologic Characteristics of the Chang'E-3 Exploration Region

An article entitled "Geologic characteristics of the Chang'E-3 exploration region"was published online for SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy on January 21, 2014.

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Another Lunar Orbiter Earthrise Retrieved and Enhanced

The other day, as we were going through tapes from Lunar Orbiter IV we came across a picture of the Earth and the Moon - one that was not instantly familiar to us.

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Chang'e-3 APXS Payload Obtains First Spectrum of Lunar Regolith

The Active Particle-induced X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), carried by the Yutu rover of the Chang'e-3 satellite got its first X-ray fluorescence spectrum of lunar regolith around the landing site on December 25, 2013.

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LRO Locates Chang'e-3 On The Moon

Chang'e 3 landed on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) just east of a 450 m diameter impact crater on 14 December 2013.

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Initial LADEE Observations of Chang'e 3 Landing

Much of the world was watching the Chang'e 3 landing in northern Mare Imbrium at 13:10 UTC Dec. 14, 2013. NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was watching too.

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The First Earthrise Image Makes a Trip Back To The Moon

On 19 November 2013, the first image ever taken of the Earth rising over the Moon's surface in 1966 was sent back to the Moon.

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Video of Chang'e-3 Descent and Landing

This video shows the descent and landing of China's Chang'e-3 on the Moon yesterday.

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ESA Teams Are Ready for China's Moon Landing

When China's Chang'e-3 makes a soft landing on the Moon on 14 December, ESA tracking stations will record crucial radio signals.

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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

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.