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Lunar Exploration Will Continue With India’s Chandrayaan-2 Mission
The exploration of our own moon will continue with an ambitious mission called Chandrayaan-2, a collaboration between the Indian Space Research Organization and Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency. The mission, which will be launched in 2012 or 2013, will … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Moon
Tagged Chandrayaan-2, colonies, lander, Orbiter, probes, ROSCOSMOS, water
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The Exploration of Mars’ Largest Moon Will Continue With the Phobos Grunt Mission
The exploration of Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons, will continue with Phobos Grunt, a Russian mission to be launched next year. Roscosmos, the Russian national space agency, is planning to put a lander down on Phobos and return … Continue reading
India’s Chandrayaan-1 Is Adding to Our Understanding of the Moon
There was a time when the words “space exploration” could only mean one thing: the highly competitive, secretive space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. They were the only powers that were really doing anything in space, and … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Moon
Tagged Chandrayaan-1, India, Indian Space, ISRO, NASA, probes
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Solar System Exploration to Continue
Exploration of our solar system has been ongoing since the first Sputnik Earth orbiter in 1957 and in the 50 years since this a number of missions have been launched to visit and explore celestial bodies. These have included the … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Jupiter, Moon, Planets, Pluto, Venus
Tagged asteroid, Juno, Kuiper Belt, Moonrise, New Frontiers, New Horizons, Osiris-Rex, probes, SAGE, Sputnik
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LCROSS Discovers Water on the Moon
Water on the surface of the Earth’s moon may be the greatest astrogeological discovery since Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the lunar surface back in 1969. Greg Delory, University of California, Berkeley said of the discovery, “Rather than a dead … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Moon
Tagged cabeus crater, LCROSS, LRO, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA, Neil Armstrong
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