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New Study Reveals How the Moon 'Turned Itself Inside Out'
In the new study, researchers compared simulations of the Moon with gravity maps created by NASA's GRAIL mission in 2011 and ...
NASA’s Genius Plan to Use Gravity to Reach the Moon
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is gearing up for launch, riding on a SpaceX Falcon 9 as part of the IM-2 mission. This small yet ...
Lunar Trailblazer blasts off to map water on the moon
On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the University of Oxford's Department of Physics will blast off to the moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This ...
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Meet Trailblazer: A Spunky NASA Probe on a Mission to Map the Moon’s Water
The former will map the minerals and water on the Moon’s surface—including the ... and its trajectory will then be naturally reshaped by gravity after several lunar flybys and loops around ...
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How NASA's Lunar Trailblazer will make a looping voyage to the moon
Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun ... producing the best-yet maps of water on the lunar surface. Observations gathered during its two ...