26 October 2020
Scientists detect molecular water and cold ‘water traps’ on the Moon
... it is too expensive to transport water from Earth. So, when both India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), detected signatures interpreted as water in sunlight reflected from the Moon's surface a couple of years...
18 January 2019
Asteroid impacts on the increase since the age of the dinosaurs
... thermal data and images were made available by the thermal radiometer instrument, known as Diviner, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Diviner showed the team that the surrounding, scattered rocks produced more heat compared with the...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... unparalleled in human history and they embrace, and poignantly echo, our continued efforts to achieve peace. NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) took these images of the Apollo 12 landing site in 2011 note that the astronaut footpaths were...
22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
... onboard India's Chandrayaan-1 mission launched in 2008. In the past, both the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) detected signatures that were interpreted as water reflected from the Moon's surface, but it was not...
