Lunar
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Using resources harvested on location for habitat construction is a vital step in overcoming the prohibitive cost of transporting materials from Earth. Urine, it seems, could be part of the solution.
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There’s only so much oxygen we can take with us to the Moon, so figuring out how to produce it there is crucial. Now, ESA researchers have created a prototype device that can make oxygen out of the most common thing on the Moon – dirt.
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Samples returned to Earth during the Apollo missions quickly offered scientists new insights into the makeup of our Moon. NASA has now cracked open the first of two untouched lunar samples to see what they look like under the microscopes of today.
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An ambitious but ultimately doomed mission to land the first private spacecraft on the Moon may not be without entirely without scientific consequence. Among the many items onboard Israel’s Beresheet lunar lander were thousands of tardigrades, which are believed to have survived the impact.
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As our perception of the Moon has changed, so too have the cinematic stories we tell, and this chronology of the Moon on film tells the story of how we, as a civilization, have entirely changed our view of our lunar neighbor over the past 100 years.
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The South Pole-Aitken basin on the Moon is the largest impact crater in the solar system, measuring about 2,500 km (1,550 mi) across at its widest point. And now scientists have detected something strange buried under the crater.
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On Sunday, July 20, 1969, the first thing ever written by a human while on a celestial body that wasn't our own planet Earth was jotted onto a page. That page was within a book known as "The Timeline Book" which is set to be auctioned at Christie's New York later this year.
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NASA has filled in some of the blanks concerning its return to the Moon, today giving the mission a name and declaring plans to put the first woman on the lunar surface by 2024.
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Some of the lunar samples collected during the Apollo missions are yet to see the light of day, and by now pulling them out and studying them with today’s scientific instruments, NASA hopes to delve into the makeup of the Moon like never before.
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China’s landing of a probe on the far side of the Moon at the beginning of the year was a landmark moment for space exploration, and after operating in the dark for a little while new images are now starting to show the rover at work.
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To help prepare astronauts for a longer return trip to the Moon, the European Space Agency (ESA) has outlined a new facility that will recreate the lunar surface as accurately as possible.
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Following a long drip feed of ambiguities and highly suggestive hints, scientists have confirmed once and for all that the evidence for water on the Moon is rock solid. So how easily will we be able to collect it? And what would we do with it if we could?
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