There’s water on the Moon, but scientists only have a general idea of where it is and what form it is in. A trailblazing NASA ...
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission, launching next year, aims to shed light on the mystery of water on the Moon.
They needed pictures that could resolve surface features ... with an extremely high resolution, but seemed an odd choice for probes destined to crash into the Moon with the precious payload.
The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Arizona has taken the highest resolution image ever ... 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the moon’s surface. In April this year it took more ...
In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...
A team led by researchers at Caltech in Pasadena are continuing to look for water on the moon, and their latest expedition ...
But Nasa has had a reconnaissance craft orbiting the Moon since 2009. It sends back high-resolution images showing signs of exploration on the surface by the Apollo missions, such as footprints ...
Spectacular new photos of the moon have been shortlisted for the ... It’s a mosaic photograph made of two high-resolution images shot using a Newton Ares 405 mm telescope.
The Galileo probe provided an enticing view of Europa's surface ... in and out of the radiation to snap high-resolution photos of 95 percent of the moon’s exterior, sometimes coming in as ...
NASA's Europa Clipper mission, featuring SwRI’s MASPEX and UVS instruments, seeks to uncover clues about life-supporting ...
On board, the Europa Clipper carries nine observational instruments, including cameras needed for high-resolution imaging ... as well as the moon’s surface topography, composition, and roughness.