... LCROSS , LRO , NASA Explanation: Is there enough water on the moon to sustain future astronauts? The question has important implications if humanity hopes to use the Moon as a future outpost. Last year , to help find out, scientists crashed the moon-orbiting LCROSS spacecraft into a permanently shadowed crater near the Moon's South Pole. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - water - water-ice - crater . Publications with words: Moon - water - water-ice - crater . ... Moon Meets Jupiter . ...

... 2010 October 25 . Water Ice Detected Beneath Moon's Surface . ... LCROSS , LRO , NASA . ... Pictured above from LRO, areas in false-color blue indicate the presence of soil relatively rich in hydrogen , which is thought likely bound to sub-surface water ice. ... How deep beneath the surface the ice crystals permeate is still unknown, as well as how difficult it would be to mine the crystals and purify them into drinking water . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

... Artist's concepts of two ATLAST designs . ... ATLAST: Characterizing Habitable Worlds (Postman et al. ... Science drivers and requirements for an Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST):Implications for technology development and synergies with other future facilities (Postman et al.) ... A 16-m ATLAST Mission Design (Lillie et al.) ... Conceptual Design for a 16-m Segmented UVOIR Space Telescope (Korechoff et al.) ... Science with an 8-m to 16-m ATLAS Telescope (Postman et al.) ...

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... F. Rodionova and E. A. Kozlova . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

... These other worlds are the moons of our Solar System , of which there are approximately 170 in orbit around our planets.Some of these moons are very interesting, and have diverse and unique features, very different to our barren, heavily cratered Moon .Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system has the most moons of any planet with known 64 moons in orbit.The four ... Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System thought to have oceans located underneath its icy surface.( ...

... Future seminars . ... The p roject " Venus Express " : scientific goals , structure and mission scenario " . ... Talks of IKI collaborators, first place winners in the institute competition of scientific publications: . ... Prof. G.S. Bisnovaty-Kogan (IKI) . ... Dr. Christoph Winkler (Astrophysics Mission Division Research & Scientific Support Department ESA , Netherlands) . ... Prof. Fumiaki Nagase (Center for Planning and Information System, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan) . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... September/October 1999 . ... Lunar Vistas and Apollo 's Legacy, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . A new collection of photographs from the Apollo missions demonstrates that, in spite of searing extremes in temperature and a negligible atmosphere, the Moon is a beautiful world. ...

... Michael Collins (BGEN, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... SPECIAL HONORS: Presented the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 1969 and recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings, and the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross. ... He served as backup pilot for the Gemini VII mission. ... Collins served as command module pilot on Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969--the first lunar landing mission. ... This is the only version available from NASA. ...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

History of Space Exploration . ... Space History Introduction . ... Chronology of Solar System Discovery This is a partial list of past, present, and future planetary and solar missions; for a complete account, please see the Space Exploration Chronology. Space exploration is becoming increasingly internationalized; as a result, the national designations listed here are not completely representative of the true nature of all projects. ... Apollo Lunar Surface Journal . ... Mariner Missions . ...

Publications in Russian . V. Gorshkov. ... View text . V. Gorshkov, M. Vorotkov. ... Gorshkov V.L., Miller N.O., Vorotkov M.V. Manifestation of solar and geodynamic activity in the dynamics of the Earth's rotation. ... Gorshkov V., Shcherbakova N. On recent geodynamics of the Eastern Baltic Sea region. ... Chandler Wobble in Variations of the Pulkovo Latitude for 170 Years. Solar System Research, 2011, Vol. ... Early Latitude Observations at the Pulkovo Observatory. ...

... We have developed a web site using HTML, Php, Python, and MySQL that extracts, processes, and displays data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The goal is to locate brown dwarf candidates in the SDSS database by looking at color cuts; however, this site could also be useful for targeted searches of other databases as well. MySQL databases are created from broad searches of SDSS and 2MASS data. ... 2002). ... 2002, AJ, 123, 3409 . ...

... Asteroid Introduction (This Page) . ... Asteroid Summary . Asteroids . Gaspra , Ida & Dactyl , Toutatis , Castalia , Vesta , Geographos, Mathilde . ... NEAR Spacecraft Homepage . Near-Earth Asteroid 3753 - Earth's Curious Companion . ... Then on October 1991 asteroid 951 Gaspra was visited by the Galileo spacecraft and became the first asteroid to have hi-resolution images taken of it. ... Both Gaspra and Ida are classified as S-type asteroids composed of metal-rich silicates. ... Gaspra . ...

... Conference . ... for optical telescopes of small and medium size (up to 3-m in aperture) to be discussed. Current Status and New Projects of Small- and Medium-Size Optical Telescopes . ... Science with Small- and Medium-Size Optical Telescopes . ... 12 May 2015 - First announcement . 1 June 2015 - Registration opens . 10 June 2015 - Abstract submission opens . ... 10 September 2015 - Programme available . 19 October 2015 - Conference opens . 22 October 2015 - Conference closes . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Learn about Mars colonization and terraforming with the latest news, images, downloads, newsletter, chat and more. Last Update October 26, 2004 . Listed Since October 26, 2004 . ... Web Site . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . GRB workshop 2009 . ... M. Barkov (Space Science Institute, Russia) . G. Beskin (SAO RAS, Russia) . ... T. Fatkhullin (SAO RAS , Russia) . ... V. Komarova (SAO RAS , Russia) . I. Khrykin (SFU, Russia) . ... A. Moskvitin (SAO RAS , Russia) . ... V.V. Sokolov (SAO RAS, Russia) . T.N. Sokolova (SAO RAS , Russia) . O.V. Verkhodanov (SAO RAS, Russia) . ... Chairman – Gregory Beskin . ... Spectral and photometric monitoring of distant SNe in SAO RAS. ...

... Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ... We also discovered another asteroid, but today in order to challenge ourselves in our last outing with the telescope we attempted to find 2013 UW8, which moved at a measly 0.42 arc seconds minute^-1 which according to Peter's expert calculations meant that the asteroid would need 143 seconds to move just 1 arc second in the sky. ... Callum Best, Gary Black, Peter Mc Manus . ... M.P.E.C. 2013-U87: 2013 UG9 . ...