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Water Water Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink

November 16, 2009 – 3:55 pm

News from the final frontier:
According to the US Space Agency, a significant amount of frozen water has been found on the moon, proving the $79 million LCROSS mission successful. Hoorah! Chalk one up for team science…
Here’s How LCROSS Worked:
NASA sent an unmanned craft smashing into the lunar surface. It crashed into the Cabeus crater, located [...]

By Natural Buy | Posted in Deep Space | Comments (0)

Forget Mars, Let’s Live on Europa

October 13, 2009 – 4:23 pm

Exactly how much oxygen is present in Europa’s oceans? Wait a minute, let’s backtrack here.
What is Europa?
Europa is the sixth moon of Jupiter, with some tantalizing characteristics that make it very interesting for NASA and us.
Its atmosphere is mostly oxygen, which actually isn’t all that healthy for us, since our atmosphere is actually three [...]

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Man on the Moon? No! Water on the Moon

September 25, 2009 – 2:46 pm

There is now “unambiguous evidence” of water on the moon. Can the moon support life now? Heh, not really. I mean, try breathing on the thing. It doesn’t work too well.
But never mind that. The details of the findings, which will be published in tomorrow’s issue of Science, follow on the heels of evidence [...]

By Natural Buy | Posted in Deep Space, Future Nature | Comments (0)

I haz Moon

November 17, 2008 – 1:42 pm

So when’s the next robotic mission to the Moon set to go?
The answer: April 24, 2009.
The name: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is the first mission in NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration, a plan to return to the moon and then to travel to Mars and beyond. The LRO objectives are to [...]

By Natural Buy | Posted in Future Nature | Comments (0)

I didn’t know it’s so far away

November 2, 2008 – 12:39 pm

This ain’t no Photoshop.
Follow the link to this page to see the Earth and the Moon as seen from Mars. It is quite amazing.
For some reason, I thought the moon should be located much closer to the Earth. Intuitively, it doesn’t make sense — for me anyway — that the moon seems so large when [...]

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