“Last week LCROSS slammed into the Moon. Subsequent analyses showed that a large plume of debris was thrown up and that NASA captured a significant amount of data. Yet the […]
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Seeing Boulders From Orbit
Bouncing Boulders on The Far Side of the Moon “Southwest of Rowland crater on the Moon’s farside, a 15 km diameter unnamed crater exhibits many boulder trails on the crater […]
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2009 Regolith Excavation Challenge Has Three Winners
Digging Teams Claim Victory in NASA Regolith Competition “Nineteen teams pushed their robotic competitors to the limit and three teams claimed a total of $750,000 in NASA prizes for their […]
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Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars
“This is an image of Earth and the Moon, acquired at 5:20 a.m. MST on 3 October 2007, at a range of 142 million kilometers, which gives the HiRISE image […]
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GeoEye Looks For LCROSS
This GeoEye-1 satellite image shows the LCROSS crater impact area on the Moon. This image was taken when the GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite was on the dark side of the Earth […]
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Moon Mining
2009 Regolith Excavation Challenge “A record number of entrants have signed up to compete in the 2009 Regolith Excavation Challenge and its whopping $750,000 prize money. Twenty-three teams have fulfilled […]
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LCROSS: NASA Watch Editor on PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Margaret Warner’s Full Interview With Keith Cowing of NASA Watch regarding LCROSS
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LCROSS: CNN: Bomb The Moon Featuring NASA Watch Editor
Embedded video from CNN Video Keith’s note: As was the case yesterday with this NASA Watch posting “Let’s Bomb The Moon Into Oblivion Once And For All” JSC IT has […]
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LCROSS Slams Into The Moon
Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:35:47 AM EDT: LCROSS impact into Cabeus. NASA TV LCROSS At 7:47 am EDT #LCROSS is the number one trending topic on Twitter followed by #Dear […]
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Let's Bomb The Moon Into Oblivion Once And For All
Embedded video from CNN Video Keith’s note: JSC sources report that JSC IT has blocked access to this post. That’s weird.