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Living in the dark
... some good stargazing... I was told there was a man in the moon - maybe he's hiding. Graihagh - But, before I did any of ... what I was after... We're looking at the craters in the moon. Got a telescope looking up at the moon at the moment, we just had it on Andromeda galaxy. Dan - ...
Drilling on the Moon
... Europe and Russia to drill and analyse samples on the Moon in search of water, ice and other chemicals. Involved in ... of the asteroid and another impacters that have hit the moon in the past, and we think that that there may be some ... then I think there will be more reason to go back to the moon, to other areas and actually do further analysis. Chris ...
New evidence of water on the moon
... the startling discovery of water on the sunlit side of the moon! It’s not the first water we know about up there - ... we never looked at it before is because we thought the moon was supposed to be dry. It wasn't until about a decade ... molecule itself could be on the sunlit surface of the moon. Phil - Why not? Why couldn't it be on the sunlit side? ...
Why is Titan so squidgy?
... spacecraft has made measurements of how much Saturn's moon Titan changes shape each time it circles Saturn, ... strong new evidence for liquid water beneath the moon's surface. Writing in the journal Science, Luciano ... to measure Titan's elasticity gives clues as to what the moon is made of and what lies beneath its surface. Crucially, ...
Why do we want to return to the Moon in 2024?
... bit later on. Chris - Why is everyone so interested in the Moon? Why does this matter? Is it pushing the technology, is ... doing this? David - There are many reasons to go to the Moon. It's something that brings the youngsters into science ... developing services. And of course there is going to the Moon and understanding the Moon, living in space, as part of ...
Peregrine lunar lander fails to reach the Moon
... private US company launched a mission to touch down on the Moon’s surface… but it’s not gone to plan. Richard ... is, and it will still exist, but it won't land on the moon. It's a private lender. So it had NASA instruments and ... also it was going to be the first US soft landing on the moon since 1972. That's not going to happen now, but a lot of ...
How do we know that another planet collided with the Earth?
... us and what samples we've got. We've got a very large moon around the earth. In fact, it's unfeasibly large for a planet of our size. Why have we got such a big moon where it is? What the prediction is, and based on what we know about the composition of the moon from samples that the Apollo astronauts have brought ...
The journey: Navigating to the moon
... lunar orbit when Mike Collins was on the far side of the Moon, the Apollo 11 crew were in constant contact with ... delay as the light made the 350,000km trip to the Moon. Unfortunately, we can’t travel at the speed of light ... to meet the goal President Kennedy set out to land on the moon and return by 1970 was very demanding and NASA - did not ...
Chris Hadfield: Are we on the brink of finding ET?
... your view on is the recent resurgence of interest in the Moon and getting back there. We had India's Chandrayaan ... think the biggest driving discovery has been water on the moon. If the moon is an inhospitable desert, then you have to bring every ...
Asteroid destined for Earth may now hit Moon instead
... but notable chance of hitting a different target - our Moon. New observations using the James Webb Space Telescope ... carefully, and there is a chance it might hit the Earth's Moon, which would be an incredibly exciting event for ... position to see it? Sara - Yes, so we think, as we see the Moon, it would be kind of on the edge, so it would be visible ...
The Moon's missing water
Craters around the Moon's south pole may lack the rich reservoirs of water ice ... a haven where material from comets which collided with the Moon billions of years ago is preserved in a nearly pristine state for analysis. Early results from the Moon's north pole have shown promising evidence of rich ice ...
Lunar Gateway and The End of Everything
... but also for human space exploration and the return to the Moon. So I kind of feel we're on a wave here, of interest. ... people are often saying, why have we not been back to the Moon? And now we're able to say, well, we are going back to the Moon, because that's due, or was due to be next year. This ...
Heavy Moon Bombardment
One of the most obvious things about the Moon is that it is covered with impact craters, but these are ... a laser altimeter which has built up a 3d map of the moon avoiding these complicating factors. James Head and ... been found of a catastrophic period of bombardment on the Moon... Heavy Moon Bombardment ...
Reclaiming your night sky
... stargazing… Woman - I was told there was a man in the moon - maybe he’s hiding. Graihagh - But, before I did ... evolved to circumnavigate darkened landscapes using the moon. But when they see other bright lights, they get ... all the things here are fairly low powered and I think the Moon's putting out more light than the light festival at the ...
MAILBOX: Why does Titan have an atmosphere?
... in NASA's dragonfly quadcopter mission to Saturn's moon Titan. How can a moon with such a low gravity hold a thicker atmosphere than ... this is a brilliant question. Titan is Saturn's biggest moon and it's similar in size and mass to our own Moon. The ...
How do planets spin and move simultaneously?
... Nothing's taking its angular momentum away except the Moon. The Moon is actually going to steal some of the Earth's angular ... down, and at some point in the future, the Earth and the Moon will be locked together they would both have lost ...
Mythbusting the conspiracy theories
... people come to you with questions about whether or not the Moon landings happened, how do you tackle the topic? What’s ... the best way to show them that we did in fact land on the Moon. Adam Murphy spoke to Ken Skeldon from the Wellcome ... When you look at the photographs of the astronauts on the moon's surface, you tend to think of it as night because it's ...
QotW: Would a moon explosion be more dangerous?
... Sci fi films love to show a good explosion on the moon, but what would actually happen if this was to occur? ... hit by a piece of shrapnel is pretty bad for you. On the Moon, because there is no air the shrapnel won’t be slowed ... down. The good news for us is that there is no air on the Moon, which means no blast wave. The same goes for meteorite ...
How did space travel fare in 2024?
... space has been about humanity’s planned return to the Moon, even if we’re not sure who is set to get there first. ... Elon Musk has become the centerpiece of going back to the Moon. But also he has captured, with his Falcon Rockets, the ... we should have seen NASA astronauts back heading to the Moon this year, shouldn't we? That's been put back. Any ...
NASA's Europa Clipper mission blasts off
... for Jupiter, to visit our largest planet’s mysterious moon “Europa”. An important goal of the mission is to ... icy satellite, which is nearly the same size as our own moon, is home to alien life. Europa - which was first ... system? Lorenz - So Europa is, as some say, the second moon of Jupiter. It's one of four large moons of our largest ...
QotW: Does relativity make moon rocks older?
... for objects in our solar system, such as the Earth and Moon. Ruth - It requires the supreme precision of atomic ... in a clock at the Earth’s surface and one at the Moon is roughly a second in a human lifetime. Even over 5 ... detectable effect for astronauts collecting rocks from the Moon for quite some time! Great question though! James - So ...
Technology in India
... the first one, that's the 40 th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing. Obviously the Apollo Moon landing is important for technology as it's the early ... Chandrayaan probe had discovered evidence of water on the moon. Now it's interesting for us to talk about India at ...
Anticipating the first James Webb images
... 2, as well as a mystery to solve on the far side of the moon. For this celestial roundup, James Tytko spoke with ... to two craters, which have appeared on the far side of the moon. Now we know they've been formed by the discarded stage ... from a Chinese rocket stage, a rocket that flew past the moon. And this is all part of the international ambition to ...
Are earthquakes tidal?
Are earthquakes worse when there's a full moon? It may sound like an old wives' tale, but new research ... stresses due to the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon acting on the Earth. This is both acting on the rocks ... The University of Cambridge Could the phases of the moon affect earthquakes? Are earthquakes tidal? ...
Mirror Mirror on the Moon
Space scientists have come up with a way to make a moon-based telescope 1000 times more powerful than Hubble. ...