The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest, not just on the Moon, but in the entire Solar System. The South Pole-Aitken basin covers nearly a quarter of the Moon ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver that will get the Trailblazer in a position to reach ...
Now, however, a researcher working with Nasa's LROC moon-mapping mission claims the strange mark is nothing more than a crater within a crater. According to UFO Sightings Daily, the discovery ...
We’ve all seen high-resolution photos of the Moon and seen its countless craters frozen in time, wondering where they came from and how long they’ve been there. Using recent research data that ...
There are thousands of lunar craters that can be seen and enjoyed with a telescope. But some are prominent enough to be seen by smaller instruments such as binoculars. As the phase of the Moon ...
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Whip up a moon-like crater
Many of the features we see on the moon are craters, caused by rocks from space smashing into the surface of the moon. Today, ...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered a new crater on the moon that's 33 feet in diameter — as wide as a 3-story building is tall. It could be the crash site of Russia's Luna-25 moon ...
What if it could build a big radio telescope up on the Moon? NASA’s concept to turn a moon crater into a radio telescope using a number of cooperative rovers. Credit: NASA, public domain This ...
The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy crater. A SpaceX launch later this month will send a new type of lunar ...
Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen views of permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole.