(CNN) China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks -- the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth's natural satellite since the 1970s.
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Moon May Hold Billions of Tons of Subterranean Ice at Its Poles - Eos
New research indicates that if even a moderate amount of the water delivered by asteroids to the Moon was sequestered, the lunar poles would contain gigaton deposits (1 billion metric tons) of ice in sheltered craters and beneath its surface.
By modeling over 4 billion years of the Moon's impact history, researchers were able to track the origin and potential quantity of ice that might be obscured from view beneath the lunar surface.
"We looked at the entire time history of ice deposition on the Moon," said Kevin Cannon , a planetary scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden and lead author of the new study in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters .
Rover that will explore Mars moon Phobos starts landing tests | Space
The first rover to explore the moon of another planet has started practicing for its landing, even though that historic touchdown is at least six years away.
The 55-lb. (25 kilograms) robot is part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission , which is scheduled to launch in 2024 and arrive at the Red Planet the following year.
In late 2026 or early 2027, the MMX Rover, which is being developed by a German-French team, will descend to the surface of the 14-mile-wide (22 kilometers) Phobos, the larger of Mars' two moons. (The smaller one, Deimos, is just 8 miles, or 13 km, across.)
Winter Weather Folklore: The new moon and snow | WOWK 13 News
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – There are a multitude of winter weather folklore heard in our region that is said to help with forecasting winter weather.
Last week, we took a look at the woolly worm, which indicated that generally we’re looking at a harsher winter based on the amount of fully black worms that were sent to the StormTracker 13 Weather Lab.
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The number of days past the New Moon we see the first snowflakes indicates how many times we will see snow this winter.
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The 'Beaver Moon' is on its way. What exactly is it? - pennlive.com
Well, according to Almanac.com, the "Beaver Moon" is the first full moon in the month of November.
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Well, according to the site, that dates back to the Native Americans. It said they used the monthly moons to track seasons, and that "Beaver Moon" was the name applied to this full moon because it occurs during the time in which beavers "begin to take shelter in their lodges, having laid up sufficient stores of food for the long winter ahead."
Nasa says landing astronauts on moon by 2024 is unlikely | Science | The Guardian
However, the report does qualify its pessimism, stating: "At the very least, achieving any date close to this ambitious goal – and reaching Mars in the 2030s – will require strong, consistent, sustained leadership from the president, Congress, and Nasa, as well as stable and timely funding."
Jaeger-LeCoultre’s New Master Ultra Thin Unites a Tourbillon and a Moon-Phase | WatchTime -
It is a well-acknowledged fact that the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin collection signifies the brand’s unique ability to unite technical innovation with enduring beauty. Keeping this philosophy in mind, the maison has introduced an all-new model, the Master Ultra Thin Tourbillon Moon, which unites a moon-phase display with a tourbillon. Interesting, right?
It is, in fact, the first time in the long history of Jaeger-LeCoultre that a moon-phase and a tourbillon have come together in a single timepiece. Additionally the watch also houses the brand’s signature peripheral “jumping date.” The watch is available in a 41-mm case made of “Le Grand Rose” gold, which is a new rose-gold alloy that offers remarkable sheen and depth of color and is highly resistant to fading over time.
From the moon to the Earth: How the Biden administration might reshape NASA - SpaceNews
N ASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard had perhaps one of the more understated public reactions to the outcome of the presidential election.
"It's quite a day for everybody, to say the least," he said at the start of a presentation Nov. 7 to the Space Generation Advisory Council's SpaceGen Summit, just three hours after a range of media projections, from The Associated Press to Fox News, declared Joe Biden the winner. He didn't elaborate on that comment and dove into his previously scheduled talk about the agency's activities.
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China to launch moon probe, seeking first lunar rock retrieval since 1970s https://t.co/1335scU6Ad https://t.co/83jolZMHLz Reuters (from Around the world) Sun Nov 22 05:20:05 +0000 2020
China's landing on the Moon, and bringing some back. Launch Monday. https://t.co/qpeVn5ipGo https://t.co/4HuZcJIMpl Cmdr_Hadfield (from Earth) Sat Nov 21 14:10:15 +0000 2020
China is slated to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attem… https://t.co/6F95iII2Sz WIONews (from India) Sun Nov 22 06:15:00 +0000 2020
China To Launch Mission To Bring Back First Rocks From Moon Since 1970s https://t.co/rM3iI5B22S https://t.co/gq4lATt7KS ndtv (from India) Sun Nov 22 09:20:11 +0000 2020
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