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2:05pm, 26th March, 2019

VP Mike Pence sets 5-year deadline for landing Americans at moon’s south pole

Vice President Mike Pence addresses the audience attending a meeting of the National Space Council at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama with an American flag, space artifacts and rocket models in the background. (NASA via YouTube) Vice P...

Fresh findings about water ice at moon’s poles boost prospects for lunar settlement

1:51pm, 21st August, 2018

Space

Fresh findings about water ice at moon’s poles boost prospects for lunar settlement

The image shows the distribution of surface ice at the Moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument. Blue represents the ice locations, plotted over an image of the lunar surface, where the gra...

Discoveries boost Jupiter’s retinue to 79 moons — including a wrong-way oddball

7:13pm, 17th July, 2018

Space

Discoveries boost Jupiter’s retinue to 79 moons — including a wrong-way oddball

The oddball Jovian moon, known as Valetudo, crosses the orbits of moons that move in the opposite direction. Click on the image for a larger version. (Carnegie Institution of Science / Roberto Molar Candanosa) Astronomers searching for signs of a hyp...

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VP Mike Pence sets 5-year deadline for landing Americans at moon’s south pole

Fresh findings about water ice at moon’s poles boost prospects for lunar settlement

Discoveries boost Jupiter’s retinue to 79 moons — including a wrong-way oddball

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