Under the Artemis programme, two astronauts will land at the lunar south pole by 2024, with NASA’s new discovery of pockets of water bolstering the opportunity to establish a permanent base. Meanwhile, evidence that the Moon may be rich in metals such as iron and titanium was uncovered using data […]
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A brilliant full moon rises at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2017. NASA/Kim Shiflett A full “strawberry moon” arrives on Friday, and it will come with an understated partial eclipse for some parts of the world. While the moon will be at its absolute fullest on Friday around noon […]
A brilliant full moon rises at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2017. NASA/Kim Shiflett There’s a full “strawberry moon” arriving on Friday and it will come with an understated partial eclipse for some parts of the world. While the moon will be at its absolute fullest on Friday […]
Although India’s Vikram Lander crashed way back in September the agency had remained strangely tight-lipped about the event not releasing location images of the crash. ISRO claimed that Chandrayaan-2 orbiter that made the trip along with the lander had managed to spot the crash site shortly after the failed landing […]
By Chelsea Whyte The remains of Vikram – green dots are spacecraft debris and blue ones are disturbed moon soilNASA/Goddard/Arizona State University A lost moon lander has been found. After it crashed down in an attempted landing in September, the location of the debris of India’s Vikrim spacecraft wasn’t immediately […]
WASHINGTON — NASA, with the assistance of an amateur image analyst, has identified the crash site of India’s Vikram lunar lander, the agency announced Dec. 2. NASA released images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) showing the impact site and resulting debris field from Vikram, which attempted to make […]
Images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), were said by the agency to show the exact impact point of the crash along with debris filed nearby. A person called Shanmuga Subramanian’s analysis of the pictures taken across the last three months revealed the lander’s location. “Shanmuga Subramanian contacted the […]
Things took a disastrous turn when India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft attempted to land on the Moon on September 6. As it approached the Moon’s south pole, where it had planned to land in order to confirm the presence of water ice, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with the […]