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Moon News
April 24, 2020
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Journey to the Center of Mars

Feb. 20, 2020 — Scientists have built a new compositional model for Mars. They used rocks from Mars and measurements from orbiting satellites to predict the depth to its core-mantle boundary, some 1,800 km beneath ... read more

One Small Grain of Moon Dust, One Giant Leap for Lunar Studies

Feb. 7, 2020 — Scientists have found a new way to analyze the chemistry of the moon's soil using a single grain of dust brought back by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972. Their technique can help us learn more about ... read more

Hints of a Volcanically Active Exo-Moon

Aug. 29, 2019 — A rocky extrasolar moon (exomoon) with bubbling lava may orbit a planet 550 light-years away from us. This is suggested by an international team of researchers on the basis of theoretical predictions ... read more

Moon Glows Brighter Than Sun in Images from NASA's Fermi

Aug. 15, 2019 — If our eyes could see gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter than the Sun! That's how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has seen our neighbor in space for the past ... read more
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Ice on Lunar South Pole May Have More Than One Source

Oct. 10, 2019 — New research sheds light on the ages of ice deposits reported in the area of the Moon's south pole -- information that could help identify the sources of the deposits and help in planning future ... read more

Mass Anomaly Detected Under the Moon's Largest Crater

June 10, 2019 — A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system -- the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin -- and may contain metal from the asteroid that ... read more

Water Formation on the Moon Demonstrated

May 21, 2019 — A new study has shown chemical, physical, and material evidence for water formation on the ... read more

Giant Impact Caused Difference Between Moon's Hemispheres

May 20, 2019 — The stark difference between the Moon's heavily-cratered farside and the lower-lying open basins of the Earth-facing nearside has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, new evidence about the ... read more

Shrinking Moon May Be Generating Moonquakes

May 13, 2019 — A new analysis suggests that the moon is actively shrinking and producing moonquakes along thousands of cliffs called thrust faults spread over the moon's surface. The faults are likely the ... read more

The Space Rock That Hit the Moon at 61,000 Kilometers an Hour

Apr. 30, 2019 — Observers watching January's total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived flash as a meteorite hit the lunar surface. Astronomers now think the space rock collided with the moon at ... read more

Magma Is the Key to the Moon's Makeup

Apr. 29, 2019 — For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how Earth's moon formed. Now researchers say they may have the ... read more

NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars

Apr. 24, 2019 — NASA's Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely 'marsquake'. This is the first recorded trembling that appears to have come from inside the ... read more

Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water from Moon

Apr. 15, 2019 — Streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor, according to researchers using data from NASA's LADEE spacecraft. The findings will help ... read more

Calculating Temperature Inside Moon to Help Reveal Its Inner Structure

Apr. 1, 2019 — Little is known about the inner structure of the Moon, but a major step forward was made by a scientist who conducted experiments that enabled her to determine the temperature at the boundary of the ... read more

LAMP Instrument Sheds Light on Lunar Water Movement

Mar. 8, 2019 — Using the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scientists have observed water molecules moving around the dayside of the Moon. A paper describes ... read more

Ingredients for Water Could Be Made on Surface of Moon, a Chemical Factory

Feb. 20, 2019 — When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the moon's surface at 450 kilometers per second (or nearly 1 million miles per hour), they enrich the moon's surface ... read more

Chang'e 4 Rover Comes Into View

Feb. 8, 2019 — The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter got a closer look at Chang'e 4 on the lunar far side. This time the small Yutu-2 rover shows up (two pixels) just north of the lander. Also, shadows cast by the ... read more

Where Is Earth's Submoon?

Jan. 23, 2019 — Juna Kollmeier and Sean Raymond kicked off an internet firestorm late last year when they posted a draft of their article about submoons on a preprint server. The online conversation obsessed over ... read more

Scientists Find Increase in Asteroid Impacts on Ancient Earth by Studying the Moon

Jan. 17, 2019 — A team of scientists has determined the number of asteroid impacts on the Moon and Earth increased by two to three times starting around 290 million years ago. Previous theories held that there were ... read more

Getting a Glimpse Inside the Moon

Dec. 19, 2018 — New research provides the first-ever model of our Moon's rotational dynamics, taking into consideration its solid inner core. Their model helps to explain why, as seen from Earth, the Moon ... read more

Earth's Dust Cloud Satellites Confirmed

Oct. 26, 2018 — Astronomers and physicists may have confirmed two elusive clouds of dust, in semi-stable points just 400,000 kilometers from Earth. The clouds, first reported by and named for Polish astronomer ... read more

Lunar Craters Named in Honor of Apollo 8

Oct. 5, 2018 — The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union has today officially approved the naming of two craters on the Moon to commemorate the 50th anniversary of ... read more

Mysterious 'Lunar Swirls' Point to Moon's Volcanic, Magnetic Past

Sep. 6, 2018 — The mystery behind lunar swirls, one of the solar system's most beautiful optical anomalies, may finally be solved. The solution hints at the dynamism of the moon's ancient past as a place ... read more

Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles

Aug. 20, 2018 — Using data from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument, scientists have identified three specific signatures that definitively prove there is water ice at the surface of the ... read more
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