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Lunar Probe Sends First High-Res Images (6) share digg
by Betsy Mason (7) on Wired: Wired Science (136) 1 day, 19 hours ago permalink
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter sent its first images back to Earth after activating its cameras June 30. The LRO has both a low-resolution wide-angle camera and a high-resolution camera. These shots were taken at the boundary between night and day, capturing shadows that exaggerate the terrain. Though the surface appears very rough, it is actually similar to the highland area where Apollo 16 landed and explored with a rover. One of the goals of the ...

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by Bombs Away (19) on This is Photobomb (29) 2 days, 1 hour ago permalink
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Images of Apollo Landing Sites Soon Available (9) share digg
by timothy (368) on Slashdot (750) 2 days, 17 hours ago permalink
eric.brasseur writes "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has entered lunar orbit in perfect shape. From a height of 50 km, it will image the Moon in high resolution. The hardware left by the Apollo missions will be clearly visible. The Soviet automatic probes will also be photographed. Previous best images were made by the Japanese probe Kaguya and showed a white patch where the dust had been blown away by the blast of the LM engine."Read ...

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Has NASA Found the Lost Moon Tapes? (16) share digg
by timothy (368) on Slashdot (750) 5 days, 19 hours ago permalink
"For over 5 years, various people both inside and retired from NASA have been engaged in a quest. They were looking for the long-lost original slow-scan video tapes from the Apollo 11 moon landing, which went missing in a record-keeping snafu, covered in unreasonable detail in a Wired article a couple years ago. Well now, according to the UK's Sunday Express newspaper, some tapes may or may not have been found which may or may ...

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io9 - "Moon" Is the Best Scifi Movie of Summer - Moon (9) share digg
by Annalee Newitz (233) on io9 (414) 1 week, 2 days ago permalink
Alone with his robot on a remote lunar station, Sam is about to head home after a three year contract. That's when things get weird in Moon, which is lucky for you if you like smart, original science fiction stories. This is the season when movies are more likely to bash you over the head with giant robotic fists then they are to make you ponder the universe. Nothing against robotic fists, mind you. But ...

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Japan's Satellite Crashes Into the Moon, Sends Back Footage of Its Demise [Space] (27) share digg
by Adam Frucci (190) on Gizmodo (1569) 1 week, 4 days ago permalink
Japan's Selene satellite has been sending us amazing HD footage of the surface of the moon for a couple of months now, but on June 11th, it finally crashed into the surface. And its final video might be its best. Unfortunately, the crash itself happens just over the line into the dark side of the moon, but you can see its final decent and just how damned close it was to the surface. It's incredible. ...

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NASA Rocket to Crash Into the Moon's Crust In Search for Water [Space] (9) share digg
by Adrian Covert (0) on Gizmodo (1569) 2 weeks ago permalink
NASA launched a lunar satellite into orbit today, which will fire a rocket booster at 5,600 MPH into a Moon crater, causing a six-mile-high explosion. They hope to find water in the Moon's south pole. But I find this deeply disturbing. You savages may be all excited that they want the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to launch a Centaur rocket into the moon. Buthas anyone really stopped to consider how the Moon (not ...

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NASA Wants to Blow Up Part of the Moon to Search for Water (15) share digg
by Adrian Covert (0) on Gizmodo (1569) 2 weeks, 1 day ago permalink
NASA launched a lunar satellite into orbit today, which will fire a rocket booster at 5,600 MPH into a Moon crater, causing a six-mile-high explosion. They hope to find water in the Moon's south pole. But I find this deeply disturbing. You savages may be all excited that they want the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to launch a Centaur rocket into the moon. Buthas anyone really stopped to consider how the Moon (not ...

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NASA To Fire a Rocket Into the Moon: Follow it on Twitter and Facebook (33) share digg
by Stan Schroeder (271) on Mashable! (1481) 2 weeks, 2 days ago permalink
NASA has always been doing cool things, but its latest mission is really a sci-fi geek’s dream come true, as it includes flying a rocket into the Moon, triggering a huge explosion. The purpose of the mission is to discover whether there’s frozen water in the craters near the Moon’s south pole. If water is indeed found, it could have very important implications for further human missions on the Moon, as a potential source for ...

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- Vadim Lavrusik said: My prediction is that we may not have anything to look at in the sky except the sun and the start.
- Jack said: I find this disturbing.
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Oh Great: NASA Plans To Blow Up The Moon (5) share digg
on Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome (91) 2 weeks, 2 days ago permalink
That's right folks, NASA plans to shoot a giant missile at the moon and make it go boom. BOOM SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE THE MOON! In an unprecedented scientific endeavor -- and what may be one of the coolest space missions ever -- NASA is preparing to fly a rocket booster into the moon, triggering a six-mile-high explosion that scientists hope will confirm the presence of water. The four-month mission of the Lunar Crater Observation and ...

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NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice (20) share digg
by timothy (368) on Slashdot (750) 2 weeks, 3 days ago permalink
Hugh Pickens writes "NASA is preparing to launch the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, which will fly a Centaur rocket booster into the moon, triggering a six-mile-high explosion that scientists hope will confirm whether water is frozen in the perpetual darkness of craters near the moon's south pole. If the spacecraft launches on schedule at 12:51 p.m. Wednesday, it will hit the moon in the early morning hours of October 8 after an 86-day ...

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- ARSHUM said: 又炸月球 @@
- John Robinson said: Wait so let me get this straight... The US is in a deep recession but they still have the money to blow up the moon? No wonder they're bankrupt.
- Ric_ said: this scares me a little!
- Ryan said: What?!
- André said: Vamos explodir a lua?
- Megs said: And then we'll send up Bruce Willis to blow up the moon before it crashes into Earth
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When You're Stuck as a Miner on the Moon, You Only Have Yourself For Company—Literally [Movie Review] (16) share digg
by Adam Frucci (190) on Gizmodo (1569) 3 weeks ago permalink
In the new movie Moon, we get all of our energy from mining on the moon, human cloning is possible and we have sentient robot helpers. And, surprise surprise, all that fancy tech creates some pretty serious problems. The movie surrounds the ordeals of Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell, turning in an incredible performance), a astronaut who's stationed on the moon to oversee the mining of Helium 3, a compound that the Earth now relies on ...

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- Rob said: This actually sounds pretty good. I like sam rockwell.
- Matthew said: this looks really good.
- Adam said: why can't this come to Atlanta....
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Review: Masterful Moon Takes Shot at Sci-Fi Greatness (11) share digg
by Lewis Wallace (2) on Wired Top Stories (215) 3 weeks, 3 days ago permalink
In this deliberately paced drama, actor Sam Rockwell delivers a tour de force performance as an isolated helium miner who stumbles into a scary new reality.

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It's About Time: Haynes Manual For Apollo 11 (5) share digg
on Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome (91) 3 weeks, 4 days ago permalink
This is the $29 Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual for all the vehicles and equipment used during the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. I'm still gonna pick up a copy, despite deciding to build my own rocketship for scratch (I'm hoping for pointers on seducing moon-women). On 20 July 1969, US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. This is the story of the Apollo 11 mission and the 'space ...

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