Science news articles about 'lunar science'

  • NASA seeks lunar mission proposals

    WASHINGTON, June 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it is seeking innovative, interdisciplinary lunar research projects for its Lunar Science Institute.
  • Canadian school joins U.S. lunar institute

    MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., July 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says a Canadian university will become the first international affiliate partner of the agency's Lunar Science Institute.
  • Apollo 11 moon rocks still crucial 40 years later, say WUSTL researchers

    ... in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, has studied lunar samples and their chemical compositions ... , we worked like hell until the First Lunar Science Conference in early January 1970 ...
  • Deep Impact and other spacecraft find clear evidence of water on moon

    ... minerals on their surfaces," Sunshine said. "Within the context of lunar science, this is a major discovery," Paul G ... instrument and its science team made the initial discovery of water in certain areas of the lunar surface ...
  • U.S. and Israeli space agencies sign pact

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- NASA says it has signed an agreement with the Israel Space Agency recognizing the Israel Network for Lunar Science and Exploration as an affiliate partner.
  • Lunar polar craters may be electrified

    ... in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The research is part of the Lunar Science Institute's Dynamic Response of the Environment ... ," said Gregory Schmidt, deputy director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute at NASA's Ames Research ...
  • Lunar Impact May Impact Lunar Science For Years To Come

    The JPL-built Diviner instrument had a front-row seat to the lunar impact of NASA's LCROSS spacecraft
  • The end of planet formation, as told by trace elements from the mantles of Earth, the moon and Mars

    ... , they represent three teams within the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI). A fundamental problem in planetary science is to determine how Earth, the Moon, and other inner solar ...
  • Earth’s final growth spurt

    ... change of seasons?New research from NASA’s Lunar Science Institute points to the same culprit: rocky bodies known as planetesimals that populated the solar ...
  • NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter delivers treasure trove of data

    ... along with the first measurements from its new life as a science satellite. With this fifth release of data, striking ... success we have had with LRO in the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate and with lunar science," said Michael Wargo, chief ...
  • New hypothesis on crater debris

    ... team of researchers partnered with the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) has developed a new hypothesis for the origin of crater ejecta—debris that is launched ...
  • Giant planet ejected from the solar system

    ... . This research was funded by the National Lunar Science Institute and the National Science Foundation. The paper, "Young Solar System's Fifth Giant Planet ...
  • Solar storms could sandblast the moon

    ... At the Moon (DREAM) team within the NASA Lunar Science Institute. CMEs are basically an intense ... collaborative, interdisciplinary research in support of NASA lunar science programs. The institute uses technology to bring ...
  • Vesta likely cold and dark enough for ice

    ... Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division ... is an extension of analysis originally applied to the moon and partially funded by the NASA Lunar Science Institute ...
  • Lunar scientists shed light on Moon's impact history

    ... PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have discovered that debris that caused a "lunar cataclysm" on the moon 4 billion years ...

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