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Ten Cool Things Seen in the First Year of LRO06.23.10 Having officially reached lunar orbit on June 23rd, 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has now marked one full year on its mission to scout the moon. Maps and datasets collected by LRO’s state-of-the-art instruments will form the foundation for all future lunar exploration plans, as well as be critical to scientists working to better understand the moon and its environment. In only the first year of the mission, LRO has gathered more digital information than any previous planetary

Seit Januar 1998 umkreist Lunar Prospector den Mond, die erste Mondsonde der NASA seit 25 Jahren. Die Mission gilt der Kartierung potentieller Ressourcen auf dem Mond, der Vermessung des Gravitations- und Magnetfeldes und der Aufspürung möglicher Entgasungsereignisse. Ende Juli 1999 soll die Mission mit dem geplanten Absturz der Sonde auf den Mond enden. Kurze Mondgeschichte

Ein Wasserkreislauf auf dem Mond? Bislang hätte kaum jemand erwartet, dass so etwas existieren könnte. Doch Beobachtungen der NASA-Raumsonde EPOXI legen genau das nahe. Im Juni 2009 fotografierte die Sonde bei einem Erdvorbeiflug die Mondoberfläche mehrmals innerhalb einer Woche. Die Spektren verrieten, wo sich Wasser befand, beziehungsweise so genannte "hydratisierte Minerale".

Crotts believes the time has come to put the riddle to rest once and for all. Scientists have long believed the moon to be a dead world, but if TLPs are real, then some form of geological activity must still be going on.

Using data from decades-old observations, Crotts and colleagues have now found a strong correlation between TLP sightings and regions where lunar orbiting spacecraft have detected gas leaking out from beneath the lunar surface.

Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLPs), in which the lunar surface reportedly changes in brightness, blurriness or color, have been photographed and observed by thousands of astronomers over the centuries. Yet explanations of why they occur and even their reality as true lunar phenomena have been hotly debated.

Transient lunar phenomena (TLPs) have been reported for centuries, but their nature is largely unsettled, and even their existence as a coherent phenomenon is controversial. Nonetheless, TLP data show regularities in the observations; a key question is whether this structure is imposed by processes tied to the lunar surface, or by terrestrial atmospheric or human observer effects.

The Hunveyor is an experimental space probe model constructed in the Hungarian universities. Its name is coming from the following words: HUNVEYOR = Hungarian UNiversity surVEYOR. Recently 10 university or college space research groups and high school groups build Hunveyor (or the Husar-rover) developed later to work around Hunveyor in Hungary.

Ahmedabad/ Indien - Anhand von Daten und Aufnahmen der indischen Mondsonde "Chandrayaan-1" haben Forscher erstmals eine Kammer unterhalb der Mondoberfläche entdeckt, die zukünftigen bemannten Mondmissionen als Basis dienen könnte. Die Kammer selbst ist Teil einer zu beiden Seiten eingestürzten Lavaröhre auf dem Erdtrabanten.