<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Moon probe returns first images : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/"/><tagline>Moon probe returns first images : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>science.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, science.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-26T20:33:51+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Moon probe returns first images]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/126548/1/" /><id>126548</id><summary><![CDATA[Moon probe returns first images]]></summary><issued>2009-07-03T01:16:22+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-03T01:16:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The US space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned its first images since reaching the Moon on 23 June.<br/><br/>The probe's two cameras returned images of a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds).]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Idea Hatched to Grow First Flower on the Moon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/104318/1/" /><id>104318</id><summary><![CDATA[Idea Hatched to Grow First Flower on the Moon]]></summary><issued>2009-04-03T10:33:13+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-03T10:33:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A lunar bouquet of flowers could greet astronauts who next set foot on the moon.<br/><br/>Odyssey Moon, a team competing for a $30 million purse in the Google Lunar X Prize contest, officially joined forces with another private space firm Friday to deliver the first greenhouse to the moon as part the &quot;Lunar Oasis&quot; project.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Amazing footage of lunar probe's final moments before it crashes into Moon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/125799/1/" /><id>125799</id><summary><![CDATA[Amazing footage of lunar probe's final moments before it crashes into Moon]]></summary><issued>2009-06-24T21:48:39+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-24T21:48:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Footage showing the dramatic descent of a probe minutes before it crashes into the surface of the Moon has been released by the Japanese space agency.<br/><br/>The final moments of the Kaguya lunar probe were caught by its on-board high-definition camera as it hurtled downwards on June 11 and as it fell the images were beamed back to Earth.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Eclipse Seen by Moon Probe as Earth Blocks Sun]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/95519/1/" /><id>95519</id><summary><![CDATA[Eclipse Seen by Moon Probe as Earth Blocks Sun]]></summary><issued>2009-02-20T09:45:36+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-20T09:45:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This is the first time that this phenomenon was shot from the moon.<br/><br/>Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter has beamed home a spectacular movie of Earth eclipsing the sun as seen from the moon.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Flag Still Standing?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/128133/1/" /><id>128133</id><summary><![CDATA[Is the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Flag Still Standing?]]></summary><issued>2009-07-17T08:10:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-17T08:10:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A plan to photograph the historic lunar locations with NASA's new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) should be a boon to lunar archaeologists who aim to solve some longstanding mysteries and also get a historic-landmark designation for the Apollo 11 touchdown site.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Debate Rages Over Moon Water]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/122951/1/" /><id>122951</id><summary><![CDATA[Debate Rages Over Moon Water]]></summary><issued>2009-06-15T11:24:11+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-15T11:24:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[There have been raging debates over the years as to whether there is frozen water on the moon or not. Soon two NASA spacecraft, a lunar spycraft and a kamikaze probe, will help answer the question by peering into the permanent darkness of craters at the moon's south pole.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/125607/1/" /><id>125607</id><summary><![CDATA[IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon]]></summary><issued>2009-06-23T10:02:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-23T10:02:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists detect lowest frequency radar echo from the moon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/46485/1/" /><id>46485</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists detect lowest frequency radar echo from the moon]]></summary><issued>2008-01-09T01:23:57+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-09T01:23:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A team of scientists has detected the lowest frequency radar echo off the moon ever picked up by Earth-based receivers.  In the lunar echo experiment, high power transmitter, located near Gakona, Alaska, launched high power radio waves toward the moon. The reflected signal, weakened because of the long distance to the moon and back, was detected by receiving antennas in New Mexico.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Water Discovered in Moon Samples]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/68243/1/" /><id>68243</id><summary><![CDATA[Water Discovered in Moon Samples]]></summary><issued>2008-07-10T00:28:24+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-10T00:28:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Water has been found conclusively for the first time inside ancient moon samples brought back by Apollo astronauts. The discovery may force scientists to rethink the lunar past and future, although uncertainty remains about how much water exists and whether future explorers could extract it.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Beams Home First Images]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/107886/1/" /><id>107886</id><summary><![CDATA[Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Beams Home First Images]]></summary><issued>2009-04-18T00:46:05+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-18T00:46:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The planet-seeking Kepler spacecraft has beamed home its first images of a patch of the sky where NASA hopes to find Earth-like planets circling distant, alien stars.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Truth Behind This Month's Blue Moon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/plime-com/l/21643/1/" /><id>21643</id><summary><![CDATA[The Truth Behind This Month's Blue Moon]]></summary><issued>2007-05-28T02:56:16+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-28T02:56:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Thursday, May 31 brings us the second of two full Moons for North Americans this month. Some almanacs and calendars assert that when two full Moons occur within a calendar month, that the second full Moon is called the &quot;Blue Moon.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lunar Leftovers: How the Moon Became a Trash Can]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/plime-com/l/113030/1/" /><id>113030</id><summary><![CDATA[Lunar Leftovers: How the Moon Became a Trash Can]]></summary><issued>2009-05-09T14:47:12+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-09T14:47:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We normally associate space itself as being littered with the detritus of our nascent attempts at interstellar travel.  The moon, however, is chock full of the remains of our various attempts to explore it.  So, what exactly is up there?  Moreover, does any of the stuff on the moon still work or is it just one giant cosmic trash can?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Total Eclipse of the Moon - February 20, 2008]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/49706/1/" /><id>49706</id><summary><![CDATA[Total Eclipse of the Moon - February 20, 2008]]></summary><issued>2008-02-07T07:10:59+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-07T07:10:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A total eclipse of the Moon occurs during the night of Wednesday, February 20/21, 2008. The entire event is visible from South America and most of North America (on Feb. 20) as well as Western Europe, Africa, and western Asia (on Feb. 21). During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon's disk can take on a dramatically colorful appearance from bright orange to blood red to dark brown and (rarely) very dark gray.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[First Look Inside Dark Moon Craters ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/89777/1/" /><id>89777</id><summary><![CDATA[First Look Inside Dark Moon Craters ]]></summary><issued>2009-01-17T08:27:38+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-17T08:27:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters, where some suspect ice may be hiding.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Japanese moon probe shoots first HDTV footage of Earth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/plime-com/l/37134/1/" /><id>37134</id><summary><![CDATA[Japanese moon probe shoots first HDTV footage of Earth]]></summary><issued>2007-10-02T16:19:47+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-02T16:19:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and public broadcaster NHK have succeeded in capturing their first high-definition video of Earth from the Kaguya lunar explorer. The video isn't available for download yet, but they do have a beautiful preview image.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Apollo 8 - Round The Moon 40 Years Ago Today]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/86461/1/" /><id>86461</id><summary><![CDATA[Apollo 8 - Round The Moon 40 Years Ago Today]]></summary><issued>2008-12-24T09:08:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-24T09:08:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[On December 24t, 1968, Apollo 8 Orbited The Moon for the first time, carrying Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders where no man had gone before.  Boldly.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Earth's Magnetic Field Does Strange Things to the Moon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/58786/1/" /><id>58786</id><summary><![CDATA[Earth's Magnetic Field Does Strange Things to the Moon]]></summary><issued>2008-04-18T00:47:24+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-18T00:47:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[NASA-supported scientists have realized that something does happen every month when the Moon gets a lashing from Earth's magnetic tail. &quot;Earth's magnetotail extends well beyond the orbit of the Moon and, once a month, the Moon orbits through it,&quot; says Tim Stubbs. &quot;This can have consequences ranging from lunar 'dust storms' to electrostatic discharges.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Viewer's Guide: Total Lunar Eclipse Feb. 20]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/50719/1/" /><id>50719</id><summary><![CDATA[Viewer's Guide: Total Lunar Eclipse Feb. 20]]></summary><issued>2008-02-15T08:49:14+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-15T08:49:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[On Wednesday night, Feb. 20, for the third time in the past year, the moon will become completely immersed in the Earth's shadow, resulting in a total lunar eclipse. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/astronomy/l/49706/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Update on this</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Happy Birthday, &#8216;Earthrise&#8217;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/86836/1/" /><id>86836</id><summary><![CDATA[Happy Birthday, &#8216;Earthrise&#8217;]]></summary><issued>2008-12-28T17:10:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-28T17:10:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Forty years ago, the Apollo 8 astronauts, the first humans to orbit the Moon, were taken by surprise. After three orbits spent photographing the lunar surface, Frank Borman shifted the orientation of the capsule to see the horizon. Suddenly, Bill Anders realized he was seeing the home planet hovering over the lunar horizon in what was, in essence, the first human-witnessed &#8220;Earthrise.&#8221;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[First liquid water may have been spotted on Mars]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/95531/1/" /><id>95531</id><summary><![CDATA[First liquid water may have been spotted on Mars]]></summary><issued>2009-02-20T10:41:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-20T10:41:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[NASA's Phoenix lander may have captured the first images of liquid water on Mars - droplets that apparently splashed onto the spacecraft's leg during landing, according to some members of the Phoenix team.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How to breathe on the Moon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/130542/1/" /><id>130542</id><summary><![CDATA[How to breathe on the Moon]]></summary><issued>2009-08-12T10:15:26+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-12T10:15:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists in Cambridge, UK, have developed a reactor that can make oxygen from Moon rock &#8212; a vital technology if plans to create a lunar base are to take off.]]></content></entry></feed>