NASA, Google Bring More of the Moon to Earth
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New higher-resolution images and maps of the moon as well as multimedia content is now available on Google's Moon Web site.
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The Google Earth Blog (not owned by Google) reports that Nasa has released some new image overlay &#038; visualization data for Google Earth: NASA continues to add some great visualizations for overlaying in Google Earth. This time they have added some data again from MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer).  As recently reported, you can get near real-time [...]
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SPACE.com / Tonight's full Moon will be almost 12 percent bigger than some of the full Moons this year, according to NASA, setting up a fine viewing opportunity when it rises in the evening.
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Spectacular new layers of Google Earth showcase images from the last 40 years of NASA exploration and stunning views of our home planet at night from space. The update is part of an ongoing collaborative effort between Google Earth and NASA.
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(InfoWorld) - Google will pay up to $30 million in prize money to anyone able to land a privately funded spacecraft on the moon, because "it's cool," the company said on its blog. "More seriously, space exploration has a remarkable history of producing technological breakthroughs," wrote Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering, on Google's blog. He cited ablative heat shields, asteroid mining, invisible braces, and the Tang orange drink as past achievements, and said the prize money could lead to further developments in robotics, new space-age materials, precision landing control technology, "and who knows what else." Teams from around the world will vie for the Google Lunar X-Prize by building lunar missions complete with robotic rovers capable of roaming the surface of the moon for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and other data back to Earth, according to a statement from the X Prize Foundation. The X Prize Foundation is best known for another space competition, the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private suborbital spaceflight, won by SpaceShipOne three years ago. Google teamed up with the foundation on the lunar project. A grand prize of $20 million will go to the first team to land a privately funded spacecraft to the Moon and complete several tasks. Bonuses of up to $5 million can be earned from roaming an additional 5,000 meters on the surface of the Moon, finding and photographing man made artifacts left on the lunar surface, such as hardware from one of the Apollo missions, discovering water ice, and surviving a lunar night, a frigid affair lasting 14.5 Earth days, the foundation said. The remaining $5 million will be paid to the second place finisher in the competition. Images from the lunar landing will be available online at the Google Lunar X Prize Web site. There is a time limit to the competition. The value of the grand prize will drop to $15 million after Dec. 31, 2012, and on Dec. 31, 2014 the contest will end unless extended by Google and the X Prize Foundation.
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Why, if Mars is so fascinating, does NASA now have a fixation on the Moon?
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DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery  for Google Inc's  interactive mapping program Google  Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the  accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.
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The moon has very little atmosphere, and lots of dust. Those are some of the things being considered this week at the home of the Hubble Space Telescope, where astronomers are discussing the opportunities offered by NASA's plan to return to the moon, including the possibility of a telescope on the lunar surface.
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It has the technology to land men on the moon and send probes into the darkest reaches of space. But Nasa&#39;s newest project has more in common with school science lessons than Star Wars.
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American space agency NASA announced plans to put a permanent space station on the moon as part of an eventual mission to Mars. Not to be outdone, China and India have announced 'lunar intentions'.
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The space agency said it plans to form lunar research teams around the country.
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DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery  for Google Inc.'s  interactive mapping program Google  Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the  accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.
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Astronaut hopefuls with the right stuff have a fresh chance to reach for the International Space Station and, ultimately, the moon, thanks to a new NASA hunt for qualified spaceflyers.
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Fourteen space agencies have agreed to co-ordinate future space exploration of the Moon and Mars.
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Google will pay as much as $25 million to the first private company that lands a robotic rover on the moon and sends a gigabyte of images to Earth, the Internet search company said yesterday.
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Google is backing private attempts to put a rover on the Moon with a $30m prize pot.
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On a day of stunning news including moonbase plans and new orbital