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BBC News
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Nasa's Mars Reconaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured two stunning images of the Red Planet's major moon, Phobos.
Stickney Crater, a 9km (5.5 mile) -wide depression that is the largest feature on Phobos dominates the pictures.
The images also show a..
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BBC News
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Nasa is very likely to support plans to despatch a British probe to the Moon, BBC News has learned.
The proposal to send a unmanned mission called Moonlite into orbit around the Moon has the backing of those planning Nasa's own return to the Moon.
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SF Gate
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It's like a James Bond film come to life. A company based on a tiny island in the British archipelago parachuted into San Jose on Thursday to become the first private team to enter a race to reach the moon by 2014 and thereby pocket most of a $30 million..
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BBC News
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Moons like the Earth's - which are formed in catastrophic collisions - are extremely rare in the Universe, a study by US astronomers suggests.
The Moon was created when an object as big as the planet Mars smacked into the Earth billions of years ago...
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MSNBC
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The moon formed after a nasty planetary collision with young Earth, yet it looks odd next to its watery orbital neighbor. Turns out it really is odd: Only about one in every 10 to 20 solar systems may harbor a similar moon.
New observations made by NAS..
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skytonight.com
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After a drought of 2½ years, we can finally look forward to a total lunar eclipse on the evening of March 3, 2007. On that night the Moon gradually slides into and out of the shadow cast by Earth in space. It is one of the grandest and most beautiful eve..
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Yahoo News
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Almost 2-1/2 years have passed since the Moon plunged completely into the Earth's shadow. But if you live in Europe, Africa, or the eastern half of North America, but sure to put a big circle on your calendar for Saturday, March 3. Unlike an eclipse of..
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Wired
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NASA's planned moon base announced last week could pave the way for deeper space exploration to Mars, but one of the biggest beneficiaries may be the terrestrial energy industry...
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Slate
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The United States will have a permanent base on the moon by the year 2024, NASA officials said on Monday. What does the space agency hope to discover on the moon? The reason it built the base...
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BBC News
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US space agency Nasa has said it plans to start work on a permanently-occupied base on the Moon after astronauts begin flying back there in 2020...
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BBC News
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Scientists with the European Space Agency (Esa) say the day when flowers bloom on the Moon has come closer.
An Esa-linked team has shown that marigolds can grow in crushed rock very like the lunar surface, with no need for plant food.
Some see growi..
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BBC News
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Such is the interest in Enceladus that Nasa has directed its Cassini spacecraft to pass just 50km from the Saturnian moon on Wednesday.
The flyby will take the probe through the plumes of icy particles emanating from the enigmatic cracks at the south p..
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BBC News
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Volcanoes were active on the Moon's surface soon after it was formed, a new study in the journal Nature suggests.
Precision dating of a lunar rock that fell to Earth shows our satellite must have had lava erupting across its vast plains 4.35 billion ye..
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MSNBC
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China said its lunar probe had entered its final orbit around the moon Wednesday, but an official backed away from reports of launching a space station by 2020.
The probe — called Chang'e 1 after a mythical Chinese goddess who flew to the moon — ma..
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BBC News
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China's first lunar module has begun orbiting the Moon, 12 days after blasting off, officials have confirmed.
The satellite, named Chang'e I, slowed down as it reached lunar gravitational pull, 200km (120 miles) from the Moon.
Scientists intend to k..
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SF Gate
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NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View has been assigned to create the nation's first Lunar Science Institute, linking researchers around the country to study every aspect of the moon's geology, history and chemistry as the space agency prepares for..
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BBC News
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China has launched its first lunar orbiter, on a planned year-long exploration mission to the Moon.
The satellite, named Chang'e 1, took off from the Xichang Centre in south-west China's Sichuan province at 1800 local time (1000 GMT).
Analysts say i..
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MSNBC
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China launched its first lunar probe Wednesday, the first step in an ambitious 10-year plan to send a rover to the moon and return it to earth.
State television showed pictures of the Chang'e 1 orbiter taking off with a trail of smoke from the Xichang..
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Space.com
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You don't have to pack your bags quite yet, but passenger travel to the Moon is on the flight manifest of a space tourist company.
The price per seat will slap your wallet or purse for a swift $100 million - but you'll have to get in line as the first..
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BBC News
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British engineers are designing a Moon landing mission that would also test key technologies to take to Mars.
The MoonTwins concept would put two probes on the lunar surface - one at each pole - to do science experiments.
The work is being undertake..
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