06 October 2017
Volcanic activity gave the early Moon an atmosphere
... be surrounded by an atmosphere more prevalent than that surrounding Mars today,” added Kring. This new picture of the Moon has important implications for future exploration programmes as the suspected volatiles trapped in icy deposits could provide...
10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
...bases. There have already been many missions to the Moon so far to study its chemical constituents – Chandrayann-1,...Volatiles Mission, or MiLUV for short, could also study the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions that haven’t seen sunlight in perhaps a...
12 April 2019
Beresheet spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
... to become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon. Although unlike its contemporaries, with the cost of the project ... award, if the craft successfully touched down on the Moon’s surface. Despite a landing that most likely resulted in...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
...before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” With what seemed ...1969, Kennedy’s objective would be fulfilled. Incidentally, this momentous moon landing occasion may not have have been captured at all, ...
02 September 2019
Strange substance discovered by China's lunar rover on far side of the Moon
...– the first man-made spacecraft launched to the far side of the moon – is doing well. Really well in fact as while it continues on... that originally was hidden under the crust I.e. from the Moon’s mantle but it now scattered on the surface in the...
06 November 2020
The Moon could have a long-lost "twin" in orbit around Mars
... sizeable space rock has the same chemical signature as the Moon, suggesting that this relic fragment could be a long-lost...collected and coalesced in an orbit around our planet to form the Moon. This is known as the giant-impact hypothesis and a shard...
