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- Moon - Lunar Prospector (NASA)
"The Lunar Prospector Archives is the largest collection of lunar media in the world."
- Lunar Eclipse by Location (USNO)
Provides details on the lunar eclipse when you supply the viewing location. 1-00
- Moon - Lunar Lander Simulator (SpaceDev.com)
Provides free software to practice landing "on the moon." 02-06
- -02-05-08 China Hit by Coldest Winter in 100 Years (MSNBC News)
"Millions remained stranded in China on Monday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year as parts of the country suffered their coldest winter in a century."
"Freezing weather has killed scores of people and left travelers stranded before the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival — the only opportunity many people have to take a holiday all year." 02-08
- Do Newspapers Have a Future? (Time.com)
"It seems hopeless. How can the newspaper industry survive the Internet? On the one hand, newspapers are expected to supply their content free on the Web. On the other hand, their most profitable advertising--classifieds--is being lost to sites like Craigslist. And display advertising is close behind. Meanwhile, there is the blog terror: people are getting their understanding of the world from random lunatics riffing in their underwear, rather than professional journalists with standards and passports." 03-09
- Moon or Mars? (CNN News)
"When humans are ready to go, the agency envisions seven-day missions at first, followed by 180-day stays once a lunar outpost is in place."
" 'We're not doing flags and footsteps,' Olson said. 'We're going for a long-term sustained human presence that's affordable and safe and built so that we can use the moon as a stepping stone to Mars and near-Earth asteroids and other exciting locations in the solar system.' "
"A potential manned mission to the Red Planet wouldn't take place until at least 2030, Olson added."
"Is it the right way to go? Critics say NASA should skip the moon and set its sights directly on Mars." 07-09
- -09-24-09 India Discovers Water on the Moon (ABC News)
"India's newspapers are filled with headlines about its first lunar mission's Chandrayan-1 discovering water on the moon." 09-09
- -11-13-09 Scientists: The Moon Has Significant Water (USA Today)
" 'There's water, and it is not just a little water, but significant amounts,' says NASA's Anthony Colaprete, chief science investigator for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)." 11-09
- -12-24-09 Importance of Water on the Moon (CNN News)
"An announcement in November probably rivaled Neil Armstrong's first steps on the surface more than 40 years earlier: There's water on the moon."
"The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or L-CROSS, and its companion spacecraft crashed into a crater at the moon's south pole in October and discovered water in a very dark and very cold place. L-CROSS researchers said about 25 gallons of water were detected in the crater, which measured about 60 feet wide by a few feet deep."
" 'We used to think of the moon as this really dead and unchanging place, that the moon was a dead planet. ... There are changes that occur there not over the course of thousands or millions or even billions of years, but are changing over the course of days and weeks and months. That's something people just hadn't thought of until just weeks and months ago. ... This isn't your grandfather's moon anymore.' " 12-09
- -01-02-10 A Home on the Moon? (CNN News)
"Building a home near a moon crater or a lunar sea may sound nice, but moon colonists might have a much better chance of survival if they just lived in a hole."
"That's the message sent by an international team of scientists who say they've discovered a protected lunar 'lava tube' -- a deep, giant hole -- that might be well suited for a moon colony or a lunar base."
"The vertical hole, in the volcanic Marius Hills region on the moon's near side, is 213 feet wide and is estimated to be more than 260 feet deep, according to findings published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. More important, the scientists say, the hole is protected from the moon's harsh temperatures and meteorite strikes by a thin sheet of lava. That makes the tube a good candidate for further exploration or possible inhabitation, the article says." 01-10
- Astronomy - Making Scale Models of the Solar System
"Many students have trouble visualizing the size of the solar system compared to the sizes of the individual planets. We use these demonstrations at the Lunar and Planetary Institute with fifth-grade students in our science enrichment class on 'Exploring the Solar System.' However, the demonstrations can also be adapted for use in other grade levels." 10-09
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