NASA, Moon and Artemis
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NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS),
NASA now believes there could be hundreds of billions of gallons of water on the moon. According to one theory a collision 4.5 billion years ago between the early Earth and a Mars-sized planet called Theia spun off the Moon and deposited large amounts of water. That is likely have been topped up by water-bearing asteroids and meteors.
In an on-going overhaul of NASA's Artemis program, agency officials say it will take seven years to build a sophisticated base on the moon.
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Methane from lunar landers may contaminate ancient organic molecules at the Moon's poles
As more lunar landers start to aim for the moon, they may contaminate craters that hold clues to the origin of life. When spacecraft land on the moon, the exhaust methane they emit spreads out to the lunar north and south poles. This contamination could ...
NASA officials say they have definitive proof of water on the surface of the moon. The scientists say the ice deposits might be ancient. The discovery was confirmed thanks to data from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper. Most of the water is located in ...
AND A CITY GETTING BACK UP. PITTSBURGH LEARNED HARD LESSONS WITH PEREGRINE. NOW THE CITY IS BUILDING ITS ANSWER. I AM SO PROUD OF ASTROBOTIC. AND YOU KNOW THE OTHER COMPANIES IN PITTSBURGH, YOU KNOW, FOR THE SPACE RACE. AND IF ANYBODY CAN, CAN DO IT WELL ...