It was also the last lunar eclipse to be visible from the U.S. There are three different types of lunar eclipses: a total lunar eclipse, a partial lunar eclipse and a penumbral lunar eclipse.
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He commanded Apollo 17 and set records that still stand for longest manned lunar landing flight, longest lunar surface extravehicular activities, largest lunar sample return, and longest time in lunar orbit.
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Tera by Lunar Tera by Lunar Along the same lines, Lunar developed a connected yoga mat called Tera in 2014.
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Astronauts would travel to the lunar surface in a reusable lunar lander that would be docked at the lunar orbiting space station.
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Details: The upcoming lunar eclipse will be a "partial" lunar eclipse.
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Once in lunar orbit, the lunar module would descend to the Moon.
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Gene Cernan photographed in the Apollo Lunar Module on the lunar surface.
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But a penumbral lunar eclipse is different from a total lunar eclipse.
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NASA will not own the lunar landers but will buy rides on them from the Gateway station in lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back.
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Total solar eclipse, annular solar eclipse, total lunar eclipse or penumbral lunar eclipse?
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Wang and his team analyzed a mixture of lunar breccias and lunar basalts.
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The mission has now entered into its seventh lunar day, with one lunar day being roughly equivalent to 22019 days on Earth (same for the lunar night).
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The Google Lunar X Prize is intended to spur commercial development of lunar exploration.
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The next step would be a lunar orbit mission or even a lunar landing.
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Blue Origin intends to bid on a contract NASA is presenting for the descent stage portion of the multi-stage lunar lander it needs to achieve lunar mission and subsequent flights to the lunar surface to build and service a lunar base.
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Space Policy Online notes that the bill provides $2628 million of lunar surface and cis-lunar space development, which includes lunar landers, less than half of what was requested.
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We also monitor during lunar eclipses, since during these eclipses the lunar ground is dark.
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This overlap occurs because lunar cycles (or lunar months) are slightly shorter than calendar months.
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At least two partial lunar eclipses happen per year, but total lunar eclipses are rarer.
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The Wednesday total lunar eclipse will be the first total lunar eclipse since September 2015.
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A copy of the first layer of the lunar library on the Beresheet lunar lander.
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Moreover, it doesn't need the Lunar Gateway to reach the moon, though the cis-lunar facility might prove useful to operate as a staging area for a reusable lunar lander.
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That likely includes any major missions to explore the lunar surface, as well as any constructing infrastructure there or in lunar orbit, for example the planned Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway.
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NASA even plans to analyze the SpaceIL lander from lunar orbit with its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Let me be lunar as all living things are lunar: waxing here, waning there, always interconnected.
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On his second sojourn in May 19763, he was pilot of Apollo 10's lunar module, the first comprehensive lunar-orbital qualification and verification flight test of an Apollo lunar module.
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After his retirement from NASA, he took up painting as an occupation, creating vivid depictions of lunar missions, texturing his works with lunar boot prints and even samples of lunar dust.
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The Lunar Orbiter program was designed to scout out potential sites for the Apollo Moon landings, so the remainder of Lunar Orbiter 1's images were focused on the lunar surface.
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"Photographic Lunar Atlas" appeared in 1960, followed by three supplements that Mr. Whitaker, Dr. Kuiper and others produced at the new Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona: "Orthographic Atlas of the Moon" (1960 and 1961), "Rectified Lunar Atlas" (1963) and "Consolidated Lunar Atlas" (1967).
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The rare lunar event is a combination of a blue moon, a supermoon, and a lunar eclipse.
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"Lunar samples are the property of the United States Government, and it is NASA's policy that lunar sample materials will be used only for authorized purposes," NASA wrote in its Lunar Allocations Handbook.
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The lunar materials were collected during Apollo 43 (the fourth lunar mission, which began on July 26, 1971) and Apollo 17 (the sixth and final lunar mission, which commenced on December 7, 1972).
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Image: CNSAAfter a 20-day journey, China's Queqiao lunar communications relay satellite has made it to lunar orbit.
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The lunar module got its name because it was going to "snoop" around the future lunar landing site.
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The Chinese plan to launch the fourth lunar mission in their Chang'e series of lunar missions in 2018.
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The minds behind Israel's SpaceIL attempted lunar landing convened today to begin planning for a second lunar mission.
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A lunar ascent stage will launch the sample into lunar orbit, where it will dock with an orbiter.
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Other voices in the conversation: Clive Neal, lunar scientist and engineering professor at Notre Dame: Lunar resources ready and waiting Georgiana Kramer, staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute: Lunar swirls hold valuable secrets Casey Dreier, director of space policy at the Planetary Society: The moon is one step.
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To celebrate the Lunar anniversary, he's created some special works of lunar craters, which he's 3D printed and painted.
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NASA's lunar lander concept is a three-stage vehicle that would depart from and return to the Lunar Gateway.
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Musk's proposed lunar surface mission would likely take cargo useful to future moon explorers and an eventual lunar base.
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To date the lunar craters, Mazrouei's team used thermal data and images collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
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Both lunar faces experience roughly 14 days of daylight and 14 days of darkness in a regular lunar cycle.
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Artist's concept of a lunar outpostImage: NASANASA announced the names of companies who'd be able to bid on contracts for lunar exploration projects as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services at a press conference today.
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A year can have two or more lunar eclipses; after January, a partial lunar eclipse will occur on July 16.
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In addition to predicting the presence of lunar dust, Gold also warned NASA that the lunar dust might be volatile.
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And a satellite called the Lunar Flashlight will use a laser to map water ice at the lunar south pole.
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This means some of the lunar polar volatiles we see at the lunar poles may have originated inside the Moon.
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Mosher: Lunar Module 21 was another lunar lander that was being build for Apollo 25, which of course never happened.
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Such was the uncertainty over lunar properties that he was quarantined for two weeks after being exposed to lunar dust.
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Such was the uncertainty over lunar properties that he was quarantined for two weeks after being exposed to lunar dust.
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The stages would include a transfer vehicle to take astronauts to low lunar orbit, a descent stage that would take them to the lunar surface, and an ascent stage that would return the astronauts to lunar orbit.
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Lunar Transit Series of EPIC images showing the lunar transit that took place in July, 2015 / Images courtesy of NASA/NOAA Series of EPIC images showing the lunar transit that took place in July, 20153 / Images courtesy of NASA/NOAA Because of DSCOVR's unique position, it witnesses one or two lunar transits each year.
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Other voices in the conversation: Debra Needham, planetary scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center: The Moon can help reveal our solar system's history Clive Neal, lunar scientist and engineering professor at Notre Dame: Lunar resources ready and waiting Georgiana Kramer, staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute: Lunar swirls hold valuable secrets
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A 2010 lunar eclipsePhoto: DVIDSHUB (Flickr)The longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century will start today at 23:30 p.m.
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ESA's payload will in fact prospect, looking for lunar water ice in the regions of lunar pole permanently bathed in shadow.
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That mission was a precursor to more advanced lunar exploration for NASA, and paved the way for the first lunar landing.
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And Bigelow is making it clear that the B330 lunar depot could be incorporated into any of NASA's future lunar plans.
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Back inside the lunar module the duo opened the bag and spread the lunar soil on top of the ascent engine.
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After a days-long journey to the moon, Aldrin and Armstrong descended to the lunar surface in the "Eagle" lunar module.
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For instance, the Orion and the lunar lander could be launched from Earth separately, then rendezvous and dock in lunar orbit.
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They landed in the Von Karman crater on the lunar far side, in the Aitken Basin on the lunar south pole.
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Another idea is to literally melt the lunar surface to create a kind of "autobahn" for lunar robots, allowing them to move around predetermined routes at higher speeds than would be normally available in the ultra-fine lunar surface.
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NASA is separately looking to the private sector for a lunar lander capable of ferrying humans to and from the lunar surface.
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This rock, along with other lunar samples, are stored at the Lunar Curation Facility at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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That's unusual, as most other areas of the Moon experience a two-week lunar daytime followed by a two-week lunar nighttime.
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It's worth noting that lunar eclipses only occur during a full moon, but penumbral lunar eclipses are still pretty special, albeit subtle.
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Chandrayaan-2 will aim to deliver a lunar orbiter to the Moon, which will have a lunar lander and rover on board.
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A famous photo of astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the lunar surface after disembarking from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle".
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NASA should offer to help subsidize the building of commercial lunar landers capable of taking astronauts to and from the lunar surface.
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Now, for Apollo astronauts, they flew their spacecraft into lunar orbit, undocked the lunar lander, and rode it down to the surface.
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The orbiter, meanwhile, will be studying water ice at the lunar south pole and creating a 3D map of the lunar surface.
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Delays in the completion of the lunar lander, also known as the Lunar Excursion Module, meant that Apollo 8 would be the first crewed lunar mission to fly the command module only, from which 1968's famed "Earthrise" photo was taken.
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Prior to Chang'e-21976, the country had put a spacecraft in lunar orbit and had also crashed a vehicle into the lunar dirt.
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And we don't yet have a ready-to-go lunar lander or a rover to let astronauts move around on the lunar surface.
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That model stands a full meter (over 39 inches) in height, with the Apollo lunar lander, lunar orbiter, and astronauts, hidden away inside.
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But once Orion is in low lunar orbit, there's not enough Delta-v to get out of low lunar orbit and come home.
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Details: NASA hopes to launch a lunar gateway as an orbiting base of operations from which astronauts could launch to the lunar surface.
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What a coincidence — that's what the Part-Time Scientists, a team working on a homegrown lunar rover for Google's Lunar XPRIZE, decided, too!
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Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, collects lunar rake samples during the mission's first spacewalk at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.
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Meanwhile, NASA is seeking input from the private sector for the lunar landers and landing system from the Gateway to the lunar surface.
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Furthermore, 23 percent of Lunar Way's beta users have closed their old bank account, thus choosing Lunar Way as their primary banking service.
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GIF: ESAMission planners for the lunar Gateway project have decided how the lunar outpost should orbit the Moon—and it's actually quite brilliant.
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Later, the astronauts would return to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway in the lunar lander, transfer to the Orion, and return to Earth.
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Capturing a lunar impact on video is rare enough, but this event — a collision during a total lunar eclipse — may be a first.
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They will pick up a commercial lunar lander at the Gateway and ride it the rest of the way to the lunar surface.
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The top half of the lunar lander, the ascent module, relied on a single engine to blast the astronauts back to lunar orbit.
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So as a stand in for genuine Mars ingredients, researchers have turned to a simulated version of lunar soil, also known as lunar regolith.
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As part of that directive, companies can bid on contracts to develop services to deliver new lunar payloads, through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services.
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The images came from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, which launched in 2009, and they showed swaths of the lunar surface in extraordinary detail.
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This photo of Earth and the Lunar farside, maybe our best ever, was taken yesterday by the Chinese Lunar satellite DSLWP-B (Longjiang-2).
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The substance in the vial could possibly be fake lunar dust, known broadly as "lunar simulant," but this stuff is not easy to make.
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One such mission, known as Lunar Flashlight, will send a CubeSat to the space near the Moon to look for ice inside lunar craters.
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There is also a lunar eclipse, where Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, casting a reddish shadow on the lunar surface.
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China launched its first lunar probe in 2013, and plans to land another lunar probe on the far side of the moon by 2018.
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It will be the longest "blood moon" lunar eclipse of the century, lasting 26 minutes longer than the last total lunar eclipse, in January.
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"Its overall design is inherited from our last lunar rover," Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lunar probe program, told state broadcaster CCTV.
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In that sense, this program, known as the Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, is more of a descendant of Lunar Prospector than Apollo.
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In that sense, this program, known as the Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, is more of a descendant of Lunar Prospector than Apollo.
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They inserted themselves into lunar orbit on August 20th, and Vikram later separated from the orbiter and started spiraling closer to the lunar surface.
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Its purpose — to perform an engineering test of the lunar module — laid the groundwork for Apollo 21625's lunar landing on July 2900, 220006.
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But it will likely involve downsizing the development of the lunar Gateway in order to prioritize the development of a lunar lander, Dreier says.
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As part of the return to the moon program, NASA is planning to build a human-tended space station in lunar orbit dubbed the Lunar Orbiting Platform-Gateway (LOP-G.) The lunar space station would accommodate crews of four for 60 to 90 days.
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Examples include mining ice at the lunar poles, extracting oxygen from lunar soil and building habitats and other infrastructure from materials mined from the moon.
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Poor records led to the loss of a lunar bag, filled with actual lunar soil, which was seized by the FBI and sold at auction.
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A normal day, LunaR style: LunaR already met its goal on Kickstarter, but there's still time to back it and get those early bird prices.
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Celestis Memorial Spaceflights, which was founded in 1994, sends cremated remains into deep space, lunar orbit or the lunar surface—starting at $12,500, of course.
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Once on the lunar surface, the Chandrayaan-27 mission is expected to last for one lunar day, which is roughly equal to 14 Earth days.
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As this new study shows, this instrument is also good for detecting lunar lava tubes, which it does by bouncing radar off the lunar surface.
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Aldrin and Armstrong stayed on the lunar surface for 21 hours and 36 minutes, though they spent most of that time inside the lunar module.
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The morning edition of the The Sydney Morning Herald went to press before Armstrong stepped out of the lunar lander and onto the lunar surface.
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Mr. Thiri Thein Than bought a Master Calendar Lunar watch in pink gold with a tiny moon that rises and falls with the lunar calendar.
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A company such as Moon Express or Shackleton Energy could extract lunar ice and sell it to any entity it chooses, including a lunar base.
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Such a lunar development company could sell lunar-derived rocket fuel to NASA as it leads the great 21st-century adventure to the Red Planet.
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Should the lander and rover survive the fifth lunar night, a fifth lunar day of exploration starting on April 211 would be a distinct possibility.
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Taken by: Lunar Orbiter 1 Date: August 23, 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 took this photo while scouting for places astronauts might land on the moon.
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One of her most well known songs "Mujer Lunar" (which translates to "Lunar Woman"), is a lyrical call to respect women's bodies, lives and independence.
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Lunar Module 214 is listed as scrapped but if you go up one row and you look at Lunar Module 70753, it says not used.
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It carried the lunar lander Vikram, named for Indian space pioneer Vikram Sarabhai, and the rover Pragyan, which means "wisdom" in Sanskrit, to lunar orbit.
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When the crew of the Artemis, more diverse than lunar missions decades ago, sets foot on the lunar surface, her spirit will be with them.
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Lunar New Year celebrations canceled Saturday marks the first day of the Lunar New Year, as countries across Asia greet the Year of the Rat.
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But it did set records: the longest lunar landing flight (nearly 21968 hours) and the longest lunar surface extravehicular activities (22 hours and 6 minutes).
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In the meantime, NASA still needs to develop numerous other elements to get humans to the lunar surface, such as space suits and lunar modules.
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A model displayed at the facility showed the B330 on the lunar surface, covered in bags of lunar soil to protect against deep space radiation.
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The day that India's Chandrayaan-22019 Vikram lunar lander made its final approach for a landing on the lunar South Pole began with such promise.
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Moon Express has won more than $500,000 under NASA's Innovative Lunar Demonstration Data Program, and $1.25 million as a part of Google's Lunar XPRIZE competition.
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Debra Needham, planetary scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center: The Moon can help reveal our solar system's history Clive Neal, lunar scientist and engineering professor at Notre Dame: Lunar resources ready and waiting Georgiana Kramer, staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute: Lunar swirls hold valuable secrets Casey Dreier, director of space policy at the Planetary Society: The moon is one step.
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The lander and six-wheeled rover will measure the temperature of the lunar surface, analyze lunar rocks and dust, and study cosmic rays, among other things.
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The agency issued a similar RFI for commercial robotic lunar landers in 2018, prior to announcing its Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract program in February 2019.
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Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL has officially decided to build a second lunar lander after its first lunar lander crashed into the surface of the Moon last week.
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Through the Google Lunar Xprize, a number of private companies are building spacecraft designed to soft-land on the lunar surface in the next few years.
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Pei "proposed an unmanned lunar research station in about 10 years to accumulate technical expertise, and a lunar research and development base around 2050," Xinhua reported .
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Apollo astronauts complained of "lunar dust hay fever" inside the capsule, and during Apollo 12, lunar dust caused lung and eye irritation on the return trip.
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Over time, the lunar surface darkens due to weathering and radiation, so bright spots are areas where recent activity has exposed areas on the lunar surface.
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Collins, the command module pilot who stayed in lunar orbit while Aldrin and Armstrong hopped around the lunar surface collecting samples, did not attend the ceremony.
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Dave Scott and Jim Irwin put the training to good use with the lunar rover, taking samples from the Lunar Apennines and the volcanic Hadley Rill.
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Just a few months ago, Israel's first attempt at a lunar touchdown ended with a crash that may have spilled live tardigrades onto the lunar surface.
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Yet during their lunar orbit, the crew emerged from the dark side of the moon to see the Earth rising before them over the lunar horizon.
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Across the room are two elemental, mesmerizing abstract paintings, "Lunar Waxing" and "Lunar Waning," which evoke the allure, through the ages, of the moon with its phases.
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A contender for the Google Lunar X Prize, Moon Express is aiming to send its MX-1 lander to the lunar surface before the end of 2017.
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Scientists have been fantasizing about turning lunar water into rocket fuel for decades now, as evidence has mounted that the lunar poles may be prime for mining.
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The four-legged lunar lander represents the country's first attempt to land on the Moon, but it also happens to be the first privately-funded lunar lander.
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Scientists first suspected that the Moon held water-ice back in the late 1990s, after hydrogen was discovered on the lunar surface by NASA's Lunar Prospector probe.
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Reuters photo of the dayPreparing for Lunar New Year Paramilitary policemen prepare a pig for slaughter ahead of China's Lunar New Year in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.
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The country's next lunar mission, Chang'e 5, is meant to land on the surface of the Moon by 2017 and will bring lunar samples back to Earth.
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Once in lunar orbit, the astronauts separated Columbia from the rest of the rocket, turned it around, and then attached it to the lunar lander called Eagle.
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The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has been chosen to launch the lunar lander of one of the companies chosen by NASA for its commercial lunar payload program.
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While state space agencies' efforts to study the moon are continuing, a private lunar space race is also underway, inspired in part by the Lunar X Prize.
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The spacecraft entered lunar orbit in August, but as it slowly made its way toward the lunar surface in September, it lost communication with India's space agency.
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Photo: Peter King/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images22013: Westinghouse Apollo Lunar Television Camera, as it was mounted on the side of the Apollo 214 Lunar Module when it telecasted Armstrong's One small step, and later mounted on a tripod to show the progress of the first Lunar EVA.
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This Japanese private space venture is currently in the running for the Google Lunar XPrize for lunar missions, and anticipates that the Moon will have a population of around 1,000 permanent residents by 2040, with as many as 10,000 visitors and tourists making the lunar trip every year.
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A close-up view of astronaut Buzz Aldrin's bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with the 70mm lunar surface camera during Apollo 11's sojourn on the moon.
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The irony of it all, however, is that evidence of lunar water may actually exist right here on Earth in the form of moganite trapped within lunar meteorites.
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The Lunar Pro is a softball-sized, one-pound orb that recreates the moon and all its craters, edges, and other topography based on NASA's lunar orbiter data.
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They're planning a series of lunar robotic missions with the long term goal of prospecting and harvesting resources including lunar water which can be converted into rocket fuel.
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NASA can accurately predict the exact shape of the shadow, thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Japan's SELENE lunar orbiter — both currently in orbit around the Moon.
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The Eagle Has Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction by Neil Clarke Science fiction has a long history of imagining the future of spaceflight, including lunar landings.
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One of them is NASA's proposed Lunar Gateway, which will place a space station into high Moon orbit, from and to which lunar landings will descend and return.
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File photo - Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 lunar module pilot stands by the U.S. flag on the lunar surface during the early moments of the mission's first spacewalk.
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Ghent studied 111 lunar craters measuring over 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) in diameter with LRO, and found that some craters radiate more heat during lunar night than others.
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" In response to LEAG's letter, Bridenstine reaffirmed NASA's commitment to lunar exploration on Twitter, explaining that "Resource Prospector instruments will go forward in an expanded lunar surface campaign.
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The name "Chang'e" is that of a mythical lunar goddess, and the "4" indicates that this is the fourth robotic mission in China's decade-long lunar exploration program.
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Since then, the mission has been returning important scientific data from this hitherto unexplored region of the moon, operating during the lunar day, hibernating during the lunar night.
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While there are various other lunar-based celebrations in the months that follow, Western companies have notably latched onto Lunar New Year, given the scale of its celebration.
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Then, in 85033, SpaceX intends to land people on the lunar surface, coincidentally in the same year NASA intends to achieve the first crewed lunar landing since 1972.
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been methodically mapping the lunar surface for a decade, happened to pass over the Vikram landing site 10 days after its crash.
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It established several new records for manned space flight, including longest manned lunar landing flight (301 hours, 51 minutes), and longest lunar surface extravehicular activities (22 hours, 6 minutes).
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To that end, they're calling for future lunar missions to bring back similar samples of lunar rock to prove that moganite was once able to form on the Moon.
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Meanwhile, the administration says it supports NASA's plans to have commercial space companies compete to build large lunar landers that are capable of taking humans to the lunar surface.
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Last year, in mid-December, the Japanese company ispace announced a $90 million round of funding for the development of a lunar lander and two lunar missions by 2020.
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Wednesday's lunar eclipse is of the penumbral variety, and the effect will therefore be subtle and subdued compared to the jaw-dropping "blood moons" caused by total lunar eclipses.
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Leading an international and commercial coalition, NASA intends to build a space station called the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway in orbit around the moon and a lunar surface base.
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Later, larger versions of the lunar lander capable of taking four-person crews to the moon and sustaining them on the lunar surface for longer periods will be built.
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Though there were three partial solar eclipses in 2018, the main focus was on the blood moon lunar eclipse in July, the longest total lunar eclipse of the century.
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"I still recall the first lunar image from Chang'e-1 being shown to me," she said, of the images sent home in 2007, during China's first lunar orbital mission.
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One of the requirements for winning the $20 million Google Lunar X Prize was that the spacecraft had to move 500 meters, or 1,640 feet, on the lunar surface.
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This includes encouraging private investment where possible and shifting sights to lunar science, including the Gateway Lunar Orbital Platform and a human return to the Moon in the short term.
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The team used measurements of lunar samples from Apollo missions, in addition to orbital spectrometer aboard India's lost (and found) Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, to investigate any signatures of water.
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Japanese startup ispace is now targeting 2021 for their first lunar landing, and 2023 for a second lunar mission that will also include deploying a rover on the Moon's surface.
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A lunar eclipse happens when the moon moves behind Earth in such a way that Earth blocks the sunlight that, when reflected from the lunar surface, renders the moon visible.
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The Google Lunar X Prize deadline to get to the Moon is December 31st, 2017, and the first team to land and explore the lunar surface will receive $20 million.
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"They explored the lunar surface, deployed several lunar surface experiments and installed the first nuclear power generator station on the moon to provide the power source," his NASA biography says.
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Astronomers have managed to capture the odd lunar impact over the years, but the one captured during the total lunar eclipse of January 21.65, 25 represented a first for science.
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Moon Express is involved with NASA's Lunar CATALYST program and has been developing a lunar lander called the MX-1 that it hopes to send to the Moon by 2017.
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Shop the LEGO NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander, $99.99The 1000+ piece building set is full of details to admire, from the footprint-dotted lunar surface to the Apollo 11 nameplate.
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SpaceIL, a private group in the State of Israel, is mounting an expedition to the lunar surface, an effort that started as part of the Google Lunar X Prize competition.
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Without sufficient protections, For All Moonkind worries that these missions could end up unintentionally destroying lunar history, such as Buzz Aldrin's famous boot print that still adorns the lunar surface.
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She then matched those earthquakes to the lunar calendar and found that no more occurred during a full or new moon than on any other day of the lunar cycle.
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India's mission to the Moon, known as Chandrayaan-2, successfully entered lunar orbit on August 20th, ahead of the country's first attempt to land a vehicle on the lunar surface.
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"These differences should make it relatively easy to tell if this soil sample is indeed lunar," Walter Kiefer, senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, said in an email.
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"They didn't find any microbial growth on the lunar samples, and they didn't have any microorganisms that they at least initially attributed to any extraterrestrial source or lunar source," said Hayes.
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According to "The Five Millennium Canon of Lunar Eclipses: (-1999to +3000)" by Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus, this is the longest total lunar eclipse Earth will see until June 9, 1.
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A reusable lunar lander could be refueled from a depot on the lunar surface and left in a parking orbit between missions without the need for a big, complex space station.
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For the new NASA program, called Commercial Lunar Payload Services, the moon landers would be far too small to carry people, but they could ferry scientific experiments to the lunar surface.
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Given the success of lunar New Year merchandise in the Asian and Canadian markets, Starbucks is bringing it's Lunar New Year goods stateside for the first time, in a Target exclusive.
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The amendment envisions a simplified blueprint for the Lunar Gateway, the planned space outpost in lunar orbit that will serve as a stepping stone for sending astronauts to the moon's surface.
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Some ancient Mesopotamian myths portrayed a lunar eclipse as the result of an attack from seven demons, and the Inca may have viewed a lunar eclipse as a jaguar attacking the moon .
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"When we combined that with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we discovered the unexpectedly large amount of mass hundreds of miles underneath the South Pole-Aitken basin," James added.
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The vehicle is supposed to carry a private lander to the Moon for TeamIndus, a competitor in the Google Lunar X Prize to send a privately funded vehicle to the lunar surface.
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According to Moon Express CEO Richards, customers include Google Lunar X Prize; the International Lunar Observatory; Celestis; and a partnership between the University of Maryland and the National Laboratories of Frascati, Italy.
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Image: NASA/JPLA German Lunar X-Prize team has announced its intentions to send two mobile probes to the Moon to inspect the lunar rover left behind by the Apollo 217 mission.
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With the China National Space Administration focusing their resources on lunar probes, and private companies planning to profit off of lunar resources, the moon is about to become a much busier destination.
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An image captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Chang'e 4 landing site from a distance of over 200 miles, revealing both the probe and the desolate lunar landscape around it.
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The effort would culminate in a lunar base that would mine resources, like lunar water, for rocket fuel, provide a base for exploration and science, and serve as a destination for tourism.
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Some of the resultant craters penetrated the lunar crust may reveal more readily the range of minerals and resources on the lunar surface beyond anything we have seen on the near side.
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A Mars ship could be provisioned with enough fuel to get it to cis-lunar space where it would be topped off by lunar-refined propellant before proceeding to the Red Planet.
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Moon Express and Astrobotic participate in the agency's Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown (CATALYST) program, a 2014 initiative encouraging the development of private-sector lunar landers for commercial purposes.
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It appears on the interface screens of the time-traveling Delorean in Back to the Future(1985), and in the logo of Lunar Industries at the lonely lunar station in Moon(2009).
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In 2020, the next lunar mission is due to land on the moon, collect samples and return to Earth, while preliminary plans are underway for a manned lunar mission in the 2030s.
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The Indian mission would be the third attempted lunar landing this year after China's successful Chang'e-4 lunar probe and Israeli spacecraft Beresheet, which failed and crashed onto the moon in April.
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As part of a lunar mission, for example, NASA needs to build an outpost in orbit around the Moon, a project known as the Lunar Gateway—but NASA has yet to award a contract for the project, nor does NASA have the landing craft required to deliver astronauts from the Gateway to the lunar surface and back.
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The photo, likely taken by Anders, was captured when the Apollo 8 capsule was at 100 degrees east lunar longitude, showing a lunar horizon line that extends for about 250 miles (570 kilometers).
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Astronomers have filmed impact flashes on the Moon before, but this marks the first time a lunar impact was captured during a lunar eclipse—an achievement more than 20 years in the making.
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If successful, the new MX-1 lunar lander from Moon Express would not only win the $20183 million Google Lunar XPRIZE, it would also help jump-start a new era of space exploration.
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It has plans to send a lunar rover called Chang'e 5 to the moon next year that will bring back lunar samples to Earth, the first step in its helium-3 mining ambitions.
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NASA is already working with a host of commercial partners on an authorized vendor list for robotic, uncrewed lunar lander mission to deliver experiments and supplies to the lunar surface starting in 2021.
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But people familiar with the company's plans, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bezos is expected to lay out details on lunar missions and a lunar lander spacecraft that the company is developing.
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Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent three days on the lunar surface for Apollo 17, exploring nearby craters and the Taurus-Littrow mountains, and spent plenty of time whirring about on the lunar rover.
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The orbiter is equipped with a suite of instruments that will allow for topographical scans of the lunar surface, measurements of the Moon's chemical composition, and surveys of lunar minerals and (possibly) water.
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Blue Origin is going to send humans to space on New Shepard later this year and has unveiled a lunar lander, called "Blue Moon," to access the resource-rich lunar surface, Bezos said.
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Now into its 22nd edition, the tongue-in-cheek forecast of the lunar year ahead predicts that industries related to metal and water will strengthen in the first half of the lunar year.
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Having implemented this crude fix, they blasted off to lunar orbit, leaving behind the empty lower half of the lander and knocking over the American flag they had planted in the lunar surface.
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Mitchell and Shephard set mission records for time of the longest distance traversed on the lunar surface, the largest payload returned from the moon, and the longest lunar stay time, at 33 hours.
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In the meantime, the first commercial American lunar landers, sponsored and paid for by NASA under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, are due to start arriving on the moon's surface in 2021.
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Of course, this isn't just your average total lunar eclipse.
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The next total lunar eclipse won't be until May 2021.
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This will carry the Mexican Space Agency's first lunar payload.
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Lunar eclipses generally last much longer than their solar counterpart.
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Diagram showing the location of ice on the lunar poles.
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Luckily, checking out a lunar eclipse doesn't require special glasses.
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ESA has plans to develop lunar colonies in the future.
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SpaceX will face some similar challenges on its lunar mission.
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Then, they exited lunar orbit and headed back to Earth.
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Well, it's the only total lunar eclipse of the year.
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That would be a useful trick for future lunar explorers.
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The ions also probably get stuck in the lunar dirt.
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Back LunaR, the world's first solar powered smartwatch See Details
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But be warned of the lunar eclipse near the 16th.
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During the dark winters, however, zooplankton follow the lunar cycle.
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There is no air surrounding the lunar surface, just vacuum.
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I've always had a complicated relationship with Lunar New Year.
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Lunar eclipses can only happen when there's a full Moon.
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The last lunar eclipse, a total eclipse, occurred on Jan.
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A NASA astronuat rakes lunar soil around 50 years ago.
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A Surveyor 3 footpad rests on the dusty lunar surface.
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As a result, the lunar year is only 354 days.
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"This will help us better understand lunar chemistry," she said.
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This complete lunar eclipse was the longest of this century.
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The colors include Earth blue, rocket red and lunar silver.
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There is a lunar eclipse in your sign today, Pisces!
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As part of the mission, the astronauts gathered lunar samples.
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The next total lunar eclipse won't occur until January 2018.
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February's Lunar New Year celebration will usher in — what else?
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What's the worst thing to do during a lunar eclipse?
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If you get into a lunar orbit, there's no compass.
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But public interest in lunar exploration has always been lukewarm.
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And Resource Prospector could help jumpstart a vibrant lunar economy.
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Will the lunar surface be different than we were expecting?
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Two other sights relate the enormity of the lunar effort.
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On the lunar surface, the rock mixed with other materials.
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We used this relationship to get ages for lunar craters.
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Want to see a total lunar eclipse during the 2040s?
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Our lunar exploration is a mixed pursuit of technological conquest...
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Lunar Orbit will premiere on 11 November at Picturehouse Central.
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The lunar spotlight today will help you untangle your emotions.
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But why don't we see total lunar eclipses more often?
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Mosher: NASA launched 2014 of these lunar landers into space.
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And "The Lunar Men," by Jenny Uglow, again for research.
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Sounds nicer than the tiny Lunar Gateway NASA has planned.
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There is simply too little power in the lunar tides.
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Major Anders had the job of photographing the lunar landscape.
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Astronauts would travel between the outpost and the lunar surface.
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They would go into sleep mode during the lunar night.
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The recording made her voice seem lunar and far away.
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The Lunar New Year holidays also crimped demand in Asia.
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This was specifically added for the Lunar New Year festival.
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Also: Kevin McCarthy's role in impeachment; and Lunar New Year.
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Flushing's largest Lunar New Year parade happened this past weekend.
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Go deeper: What else we know about India's lunar lander
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Israel attempted a lunar landing in April and also failed.
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Cernan drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle around the landing site.
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"I was struck by how lunar it was," he says.
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En sus obras tituladas "Lunar", los trazos también evocan constelaciones.
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This year, the Lunar New Year falls on January 25.
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This year, the Lunar New Year falls on Saturday, Jan.
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It is officially known as LM-2 — Lunar Module 2.
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Back to lunar orbit there is still more to uncover.
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For now, savor these scenes from the total lunar eclipse.
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It will land at the beginning of a lunar day.
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Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year.
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The followers of biodynamic gardening go by the lunar calendar.
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The vibe felt like a lunar tidal pull in there.
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Some people think Friday's lunar eclipse signals a coming apocalypse.
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The lens was an integral part of the Hasselblad camera used throughout the four lunar surface missions, as well as two days in lunar orbit, Scott said in a letter that accompanied the sale.
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These notes (above), written by Michael Collins, shows how he tried to pinpoint the exact location of the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle on the lunar surface as he orbited the Moon alone in Columbia.
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These include a new $1.75 million Lunar Arrival Milestone Prize, for teams that complete one orbit around the Moon or enter a "direct descent approach to the lunar surface," before the end of March.
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As the lunar module pilot for the Apollo 21967 mission, Bean was part of the second crew that landed on the Moon, and he became the fourth man to walk on the lunar surface.
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In 2020, the next lunar mission, Chang'e 5, is due to land on the moon, collect samples and return to Earth, while preliminary plans are underway for a manned lunar mission in the 2030s.
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Spudis went on to be the principle investigator of the Mini-SAR experiment for the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter as well as the Mini-RF on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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That's why a group of scientists with the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, or LEAG, which advises NASA on lunar exploration, wrote a letter to Bridenstine, urging him to reverse the decision on Resource Prospector.
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In 2020, the next lunar mission, Chang'e 5, is due to land on the moon, collect samples and return to Earth, while preliminary plans are underway for a manned lunar mission in the 33s.
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There are usually two or three lunar eclipses in a given year, and everyone lucky enough to be on the night side of Earth during a lunar eclipse has a chance to witness it.
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NASA recently tasked Astrobotic and two other companies with sending robotic landers to the lunar surface within the next couple of years as part of the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, program.
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"All deficits since 231.3 have been in either the Lunar New Year month or in one of the months around the Lunar New Year month," ING's Chief Asia Economist Tim Condon wrote in a note.
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"I would think that with the right kind of measurements and people with experience in lunar materials it would be pretty straightforward to correctly identify whether or not a sample is lunar soil," Milliken added.
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On Tuesday, Google Lunar X-Prize contestant Team HAKUTO, a product of the Japanese startup ispace Inc, announced it'll be partnering with the India-based Team Indus to get its lunar rover to the Moon.
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Image: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State UniversityThree years ago, a camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was struck by a tiny meteoroid as it was capturing an image of the lunar surface.
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When the time comes, he hopes that lunar residence and industry will be a shared privilege, with countries working together in a "lunar village" and combining their strengths rather than testing them against one another.
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Based on measurements of the lunar soil and NASA guidelines on skin contact with hot objects, you would probably be able to press a bare hand against the hottest lunar soil without feeling uncomfortably warm.
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Mr. Bean stepped onto the lunar surface preceded by Pete Conrad, the mission commander of their Apollo 12 flight, in November 212, four months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first lunar explorers.
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The agency has selected a handful of companies to build components for its lunar gateway, a space station that will be in orbit around the moon, and it has solicited designs for a lunar lander.
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MASHABLE: How does Stars Above fit into the Lunar Chronicles world?
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What are your next projects, now that Lunar Chronicles is over?
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Freshwater asked Bezos why Blue Origin is focused on lunar exploration.
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The Lunar New Year is the busiest travel period in China.
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Then, a lander will take the crew to the lunar surface.
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There are 12 Chinese zodiac animals that represent each lunar year.
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Lunar eclipses occur when the Moon passes into the Earth's shadow.
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The Jade Rabbit 22 lunar rover on the Moon's far side.
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A shot of the lunar surface taken shortly after the landing.
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China and India both have lunar programmes and, doubtless, similar thoughts.
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Lunar globes already exist, but 3-D, topographic ones do not.
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It's 2018, and we all know what a lunar eclipse is.
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To date, over 300 lunar meteorites have been collected on Earth.
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All support commercial space ventures and manned exploration — including lunar missions.
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The Lunar New Year holiday fell in early February this year.
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In the lunar calendar, 2019 is the year of the pig.
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Pence told NASA to "fail smarter" in developing the lunar landing.
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NASA has seized lunar samples from private owners in the past.
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And it's also the first private mission to the lunar surface.
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Bezos' company will also provide its lunar lander, called Blue Moon.
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How can a lunar eclipse happen if the Earth is flat?
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Four days later, the crew touched down on the lunar surface.
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However, he did speak out about the lunar landing on Twitter.
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Perhaps he meant the whole concept of a private lunar mission.
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A previous lunar trip scheduled for this year has been shelved.
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There may also be a clock that's driven by lunar cycles.
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However, this will be the only penumbral lunar eclipse of 2017.
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Hi-res video from the lunar surface would be so cool.
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But that doesn't mean this lunar phase will be completely uneventful.
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Landing on the lunar surface was only part of the challenge.
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Another, called Astrobotic, wants to set up a lunar delivery service.
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Go deeper: Israeli moon landing to mark milestone in lunar exploration
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The wreckage is likely strewn over kilometers of the lunar surface.
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During a total lunar eclipse, the earth's shadow covers the moon.
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Once that happens, it's time to start building the lunar outpost.
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NASA's new lunar taxi, called Orion, is almost ready to go.
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The photo highlights the complexity and beauty of the lunar surface.
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Besides the funding battle, NASA had another lunar setback this week.
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A lobate scarp, a potential lunar fault line, bisects this image.
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Today's lunar eclipse in Capricorn is major for your finances, Sagittarius!
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There is a lunar eclipse in Capricorn on July 16, 2019.
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No doubt, these caverns would be perfect for aspiring lunar colonists.
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China's one-week Lunar New Year holiday starts on Feb. 15.
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January 21 brings a super moon and lunar eclipse in Leo!
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They do not feel the lunar temperature—they have their own.
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Littering the lunar surface are almost 200 tons of forgotten trash.
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The next supermoon-lunar eclipse combination will not happen until 2033.
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Mitchell became the sixth man to walk on the lunar surface.
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NASA wants to set aside $10.7 billion for its lunar plans.
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Thus, his idea about eclipses, including lunar eclipses, wasn't widely known.
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The initial games included Missile Command, Asteroids, Lunar Lander and Centipede.
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China's lunar rover is dead — most likely for good this time.
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It now holds the record for the longest-operating lunar rover.
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Because this is really like an eclipse, like a lunar eclipse.
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It has been updated with the Trump administration's latest lunar plans.
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Michael Collins stayed behind in lunar orbit as command module pilot.
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Only seven years later, astronauts were walking on the lunar surface.
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Specifically, the researchers analyzed seven lunar rocks and eight Earth rocks.
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The Islamic calendar is lunar, so Ramadan rotates through the seasons.
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Thanks to Chandrayaan, India's Lunar Programme will get a substantial boost.
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"Our investment is not for the Google Lunar XPRIZE," Hakamada said.
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He said he was struck by how lunar the landscape was.
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Scientists used the lunar body to calibrate the new spacecraft's camera.
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At LiftPort, Laine is also working on a lunar-elevator concept.
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China has its own desires to possess and exploit lunar resources.
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Friday is Lunar New Year's day, a public holiday in China.
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All that is needed, at a minimum, is a lunar lander.
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Interestingly, these findings could influence the location of future lunar missions.
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The lander would be a prototype for future lunar mining facilities.
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On January 31, there's a lunar eclipse in your sign, Leo.
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Lunar love is shining down on you, and it feels good.
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This new lunar cycle encourages a fresh approach to your partnerships.
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The lunar eclipse in fellow Air sign Aquarius arrives August 7.
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This is why we don't have a lunar eclipse every month.
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You can expect the next total lunar eclipse in January 2018.
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Aldrin joined Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface in July 1969.
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Spacecraft would ferry astronauts between the Gateway and the lunar surface.
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So the title of "first" private lunar lander is still unclaimed.
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Lunar New Year's events in Beijing, China, have reportedly been canceled.
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Chinese markets were closed due to the Lunar New Year holiday.
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And large Lunar New Year festivities have been canceled in Beijing.
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The vehicle was reported to have crashed into the lunar surface.
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Flags trying to signify ownership pop up on the lunar surface.
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"It was a bit like watching a lunar landing," Gross says.
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The week-long Lunar New Year break starts on Feb. 15.
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They bounced across a sandy, lunar landscape, driving deep into Syria.
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Background: Vikram wasn't the only lunar lander to fail this year.
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On her moon-shaped "Lunar" works, the drawings also recall constellations.
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China has also extended the Lunar New Year holiday to Feb.
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It's a similar story for the Lunar Orbiter prints on sale.
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Markets in China remained closed for the Lunar New Year holiday.
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The United States is not the only country with lunar aspirations.
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Lunar eclipses occur due to the merging of two different cycles.
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The traditional lion dance is central to Lunar New Year celebrations.
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The country will also celebrate the Lunar New Year, in February.
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Alternate-side parking: Suspended today and tomorrow for Lunar New Year.
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The Chang'e-4 first entered a lunar orbit on Dec. 12.
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The space agency has its sights set on returning astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024, and Blue Origin has already made a short list of companies who could help build a crew-worthy lunar lander.
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They include the delivery of the international lunar observatory on the moon, retroreflector arrays to test principles of Einstein's general relativity theory and lunar geology, and human remains and DNA samples for space burial from Celestis.
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As the Organization of Lunar States sends a delegation to investigate the rights of men, the story of citizens in the Society intertwine, and the secrets the delegation uncovers spark a war on the lunar surface.
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Thanks to improper management, NASA has lost a wide array of historical spaceflight memorabilia over the last few decades — such as an old lunar soil bag, former spaceflight hand controllers, and even a test lunar rover.
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There's also a separate sculpture depicting Armstrong saluting the American flag next to the Apollo 11's Eagle lunar module on the moon's surface, complete with a butter version of his footprints in the lunar regolith.
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a probe that has orbited the Moon since 2009, spotted water molecules being absorbed and released from grains of dust on the lunar surface throughout the day, based on the temperature.
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Image: CNSAChina's mission exploring the lunar far side has now entered into its seventh lunar day, with the Chang'22 lander and Yutu 2186 rover resuming activities despite a recent communication problem with a relay satellite.
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Our weekly lunar horoscopes examine the lunar cycles and give self tips based on astrological aspects in relationship to a given moon sign, while our sun sign horoscopes focus more on the atmosphere for the day.
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And there's budgetary momentum for NASA to work on a "lunar gateway," a habitable space station that will orbit the moon, allowing for longer-term lunar missions and prep for an eventual human mission to Mars.
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NASA has finalized the payloads for its first cargo deliveries scheduled to be carried by commercial lunar landers, vehicles created by companies the agency selected to take part in its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
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According to Ars Technica, the company plans to send a series of missions to the Moon over the next few years, three of which it claims to have funding for—Lunar Scout, Lunar Outpost, and Harvest Moon.
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The Beresheet ("Genesis") program was originally conceived as an entry into the ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful Google Lunar Xprize in 2010, which challenged people to accomplish a lunar landing, with $30 million in prizes as the incentive.
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IN 2001 Allan Treiman, a researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, in Houston, was working on the one-sentence summary that the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) requires of presenting authors when inspiration struck.
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Ultimately, JAXA's goal is to host a series of uncrewed and human missions under a broader Lunar Exploration Program, with the ultimate aim of establishing a presence for Japanese astronauts in a combined international lunar outpost program.
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Two datasets contributed to the research: topography data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and global gravity data from the pair of small Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft.
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As he outlined in a blog post and a video demonstration on Saturday, Given designed a lunar landing game using the same code that enabled the real lunar landings—the software of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC).
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In an announcement yesterday, the administration said that each lander will carry NASA-provided payloads to conduct science investigations and demonstrate technologies on the lunar surface to pave the way for NASA astronauts lunar return in 2024.
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"This action is viewed with both incredulity and dismay by our community, especially as the President's Space Policy Directive 1 directs NASA to go to the lunar surface," the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group wrote in the letter.
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While a modern-day lunar eclipse is generally a source of excitement, in ancient times a lunar eclipse was the last thing people wanted to see, said Ed Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
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Do you ever go online and look at the Lunar Chronicles fandom?
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Q. So the coming Lunar New Year is going to be special?
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"A dream would have to be a lunar exploration mission," he said.
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And the first snowfall of the Lunar New Year is considered auspicious.
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The lunar sample return bag used by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11.
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The next lunar eclipse of such a length is due in 2123.
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Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one.
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And these days, they're about as giddy as lunar scientists can get.
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Then there's Justin Cyrus, the CEO of a startup called Lunar Outpost.
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That one is called the Late Heavy Bombardment, or the lunar cataclysm.
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In 2017, about 255,000 Chinese tourists visited during the Lunar New Year.
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Some important dates for sky watchersThe lunar eclipse of September 28, 503.
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You'll have another chance to see a total lunar eclipse on Jan.
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The lunar module was dangerous but necessary for navigating a moon landing.
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The lunar new year, which fell in February, would have affected trade.
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That's why many think today's Blue Origin announcement will have lunar leanings.
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SpaceIL was one of five finalists in the Lunar X Prize competition.
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The natural progression from Martian gravity is, obviously, to take things lunar.
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After our brief lunar excursion the plane starts to wobble a tad.
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There will be a partial lunar eclipse visible in Asia next month.
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While many of you gazed at the total lunar eclipse on Jan.
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When we finally found it, the scenery was as lunar as advertised.
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Around last year's lunar new-year holiday the road handled record numbers.
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With last week's crazy-making Aquarius lunar eclipse, we wouldn't be surprised.
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Then, last week, Beresheet entered lunar orbit in preparation for today's event.
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Check back then to see what could be a historic lunar landing.
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THE $30m Google Lunar XPRIZE has had a slow time of it.
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"For many (including myself), the lunar phases are highly metaphorical," Nock says.
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The Lunar New Year begins today, and celebrations will last 15 days.
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Moon Express, for instance, plans to mine the lunar surface one day.
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A lunar (full moon) eclipse on September 16 will bring maximum feels.
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And on the 16th, the lunar eclipse encourages you to socialize more.
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Though water is widespread in the lunar soil, is spread very thin.
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Manny MUA is still releasing products from his makeup line, Lunar Beauty.
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Scientists are still studying the lunar samples from the Apollo moon landings.
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If you ask us, any lunar eclipse is a reminder-worthy event.
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Multi-dome lunar base being constructed, based on the 3D printing concept.
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Spiritually speaking, this lunar phase is associated with growth, development, and progress.
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But just outside this sleepy Georgian resort, a lunar landscape is emerging.
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Chinese markets are closed through the week for the Lunar New Year.
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Most obviously, asteroids slamming into the lunar surface could cause a flash.
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For a graphic on India to launch second lunar mission, click tmsnrt.
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By that point, ispace's Hakuto seemed on track for a lunar romp.
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The average duration of a total lunar eclipse is about 50 minutes.
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Longest total lunar eclipse of the century : What you need to know.
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And finally, a penumbral lunar eclipse, will begin at 5:34 p.m.
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"After Lunar New Year, data will probably soften even more," he added.
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A total lunar eclipse occurs when the entire Moon enters Earth's shadow.
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By 600 BCE, predicting lunar eclipses was a regular occurrence, Steele said.
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China's trade slowed during last month's week-long Lunar New Year celebration.
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The lunar eclipse is in your sign—that's a lot of pressure!
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Do you have the next lunar eclipse saved in your Google calendar?
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The lunar eclipse (and super moon) in Leo lands on January 21!
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Among the more impressive unveils was Blue Moon, a new lunar lander.
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In the past, Bridenstine has called for a permanent US lunar outpost.
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Last year during lunar new year celebrations tourist numbers were up 57%.
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Each lunar year is based on one of the 22018 Zodiac signs.
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"Anyone working on lunar landers is also going to benefit," Anderson said.
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Most major Asian markets remained closed for the Lunar New Year holidays.
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But, do enjoy the lunar love that's beaming down on you today.
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The market was closed last week for the Lunar New Year holiday.
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A lunar eclipse from the Death Star is never a good sign.
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In the lunar calendar, the Year of the Dog starts on Friday.
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China's first lunar rover, known as jade rabbit, finished operating in 2016.
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But the lunar module posed design challenges that made this order difficult.
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Many Asian share markets were shut for the Lunar New Year holiday.
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For the first lunar resident, access to water will be a must.
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Musk, for his part, should bid for the NASA lunar lander contract.
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That vital information could drastically change how we plan future lunar missions.
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Mainland China markets reopen on Monday after the Lunar New Year holiday.
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It envisions the Gateway as two B330 units linked in lunar orbit.
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Ma Xingrui, 57, was once the chief engineer of China's lunar program.
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Here's a sequence trying to capture the effect of a lunar eclipse.
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Cue cards and lunar surface maps brought a few thousand dollars each.
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HSI will dip in the Lunar New Year, which begins on Feb.
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The lunar light levitates over its wood base and can even spin.
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A view of the lunar surface captured by the Yutu 2 rover.
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Lunar mining has been a subject of speculation and study for decades.
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The lunar spotlight is on you, helping you reconnect with your emotions.
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The lunar eclipse in fellow Air sign Aquarius arrives on August 18!
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" "Originally Moondrop was more a scientific project to imitate the Lunar gravity.
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Trade fell to zero this week ahead of Lunar New Year holidays.
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"It's 2017, we should have a lunar base by now," Musk said.
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It was expected to die within two days of its lunar touchdown.
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Viewing the eclipse So where can you see the total lunar eclipse?
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In time, he developed what were, essentially, navigational charts for lunar exploration.
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Shepard's crewmate, Apollo 21857 lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell, felt it too.
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Pistachios are caught in its crevices; patches of cream surface, lunar white.
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I touched my own head and felt a lunar landscape of welts.
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Some seismic readings from the lunar surface couldn't be explained — until now.
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It will also be the last total lunar eclipse until May 2021.
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Many of Mak's fondest childhood memories stem from Lunar New Year celebrations.
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The coronavirus forced the annual Lunar New Year holiday to be extended.
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China extended its Lunar New Year break by three days to Feb.
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Amid the Lunar New Year holiday, many markets in Asia were closed.
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The Lunar New Year holiday was initially set to run from Jan.
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There&aposs no extra cost to enjoy the Lunar New Year festivities.
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My first book, "Ultraball: Lunar Blitz," came out in January 2019 (HarperCollins).
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The Chinese government has extended the Lunar New Year holiday until Feb.
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In 2018, the first day of Lunar New Year is Feb. 16.
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So, go directly to the surface and not build the lunar Gateway?
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The final resting place of India's failed lunar lander has been found.
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February's Lunar New Year celebrations in Sydney featured talks from local historians.
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The US sets up a lunar base as early as the 1970s.
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Many markets in Asia were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday.
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Shopkeepers close their business in Wuhan, ahead of the Lunar New Year.
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Perhaps the biggest concern revolves around the construction of Artemis' lunar lander.
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And it was blood-red, like you'd see in a lunar eclipse.
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China's new probe is the latest step in its lunar exploration program.
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What's next: China has extended the Lunar New Year holiday to Feb.
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Vietnam's markets were closed on Wednesday for the Lunar New Year holidays.
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"Now every total lunar eclipse is called a blood moon," he said.
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Here's a primer on the science and origins behind these lunar events.
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But the age of any particular lunar crater has often been uncertain.
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Originally, SpaceIL was one of four finalists in Google's Lunar X Prize.
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NASA still needs to build and launch a lunar Gateway space station.
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