Join Eric Hand at the LPSC this year in League City, Texas. He'll be sending back diary reports to this blog page from 10-14 March.
August, 2005: NASA officially publicises a space exploration program based on this and gives a detailed scheme of man's return to the moon. On 16th July, 1969, Apollo 11, with 3 astronauts aboard,... 查看全文
Mars, Earth And Moon From 'Unique Planetary Nursery' A study of meteorites suggests that Mars, the Earth and the Moon share a common composition from ‘growing up’ in a unique planetary nursery in th... 查看全文
Why did I bring sweaters? Too habituated to wintry weather in Washington, DC, I suppose.The weather here in Houston, Texas (well, League City, actually) is expected to be in the mid-70s all week (that... 查看全文
Hardy Earth bacteria can grow in lunar soil Sausage-shaped cells are Synechococcus cyanobacteria (Image: NSF) A hardy life form called cyanobacteria can grow in otherwise inhospitable lunar soil, new ... 查看全文
Designing A Lunar Telescope To See Into The Dark AgesThe crater Tsiolkovsky is a relatively level region on the far side of the Moon. A lander would deposit a series of rovers, which would then move o... 查看全文
Tokyo's Waseda University is developing some really weird-looking vehicles and mechanical aids for people with reduced mobility. This one looks like a cross betwen a Segway and a lunar rover, but unli... 查看全文
sam1am points out a New York Times report on a recent paper published in Nature about the formation of planetary systems. A binary star system surrounded by a protoplanetary disc was observed over a p... 查看全文
Given the fact there have been 12 people who actually walked on the moon I have to wonder if there’s even a need for a lunar rover these days. But I guess if you’re a kid who dreams of designing the n... 查看全文
Lunar Chariot prepares to tear up some moon dust Phil McKennaNASA's Chariot is the first in a new line of lunar vehicles that could someday bulldoze roads, dig trenches, and drill for minerals on the ... 查看全文
holy_calamity writes "New Scientist has video of Nasa's new Chariot lunar rover in action on simulated moon surface in Houston. As the associated story explains, the two-ton "truck" has a top speed of... 查看全文