Blue Ghost just completed its mission, which lasted a full lunar day — two Earth weeks — on the near side of the moon.
If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other planetary ...
A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone.
University of Colorado Boulder scientists are participating in five lander missions to the moon in the next few years to ...
As reported by Tech WP, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured images of ripple-like formations in Gale Crater ... Billions of years ago, Mars lost its magnetic field, leading to the gradual ...
Cameras onboard will capture X-ray images of Earth, studying how space weather interacts with the planet's magnetic field ... the spacecraft landed on a crater slope, damaging its landing gear ...
a retroreflector will serve as a positioning target for Earth-based lasers and another instrument will take X-ray images showing interactions between the solar wind and Earth's magnetic field.
However, it does appear the lander touched down somewhere in the vicinity of the landing site because its crater-mapping algorithm ... seeing the Earth in the field of view. With that information ...
That mission is to investigate Reiner Gamma, a geological feature where the moon has a fairly strong but local magnetic ... Mars and other planets. The discovery of frozen water in the craters ...
Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records ...