Clavius Crater on the Moon. Credit: NASA/USGS NASA has awarded $3 million to a team of five University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists in support of a system that will search for widespread ice deposits beneath the lunar surface. The mission, called...
Image: NASA This article was originally published by The Conversation. Author: John Grant, Southern Cross University Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that could allow effective space resource...
The Earth from the Moon. Credit: NASA Fifty years ago, on August 23, 1966, NASA captured the first images of Earth from the moon. According to a story on Mashable.com, Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the above photograph during a mission to locate potential landing spots for...
Dione. Credit: NASA Dione reveals its past via contrasts in this view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The features visible here are a mixture of tectonics — the bright, linear features — and impact cratering — the round features, which are...
The following photograph shows the first Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) on the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA’s Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin were the first humans to drive on the surface of the Moon 40 years ago on July 30, 1971. According to a recent...
