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India’s Moon Mission Makes Unprecedented Measurements at the Lunar South Pole
It’s been less than a week since India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission became the first to touch down on the Moon’s south pole, and its lander is wasting no time collecting valuable data from the unexplored region. Using a temperature probe on board the Vikram lander, Chandrayaan-3 measured the temperature profile of the lunar soil in the…
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The Sun’s Powerful 2021 Outburst Was Detected on Earth, Mars, and the Moon
A massive outburst from the Sun was felt across three worlds in a rare event that could help protect astronauts from harmful radiation during future missions. On October 28, 2021, a solar eruption spread across Earth, the Moon, and Mars simultaneously, even as Earth and Mars were around 150 million miles (250 million kilometres) apart…
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Houston, We Have a Dust Problem: Future Moon Landings Could Jeopardise Spacecraft
When it comes to the future of spaceflight, the Moon is the place to be. Several missions are set to land on the Moon in the next few years in an effort to establish a human presence on the lunar surface. Although they’re meant to bolster lunar activity, those landings, however, could in turn have…
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Japan’s Private Lander Appears to Have Crashed on the Moon
Tokyo-based company ispace appears to have failed in its attempt to land its lunar lander on the surface of the Moon, which would have made it the first private mission to land on the dusty lunar surface.