The dark side of the moon is no longer half the face of a friend. Using current gravity and topography data sets, the side of the body that never faces the Earth has the look of a palimpsest: the ...
Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the Moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history ...
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NASA has developed a process that creates more accurate solar eclipse maps, the agency recently announced — and the shadow cast by the moon in the new, better maps might not look quite as you’d expect ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small mare ridge in Northeast Mare Imbrium taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. (CREDIT: NASA / GSFC / Arizona ...
A new study maps the trace concentrations of water implanted in the lunar soil by the solar wind, a water source that could be used as resource in future lunar exploration. In research that may prove ...