Moon landing (redirect from Lunar landing) 1999 the NASA Lunar Prospector orbiter was deliberately targeted to impact a permanently shadowed area of Shoemaker Crater near the lunar south pole. It... 113 KB (10,609 words) - 16:27, 25 April 2024 |
Moon (redirect from Lunar mass) lunar surface. In 1998, this was followed by the Lunar Prospector mission, whose instruments indicated the presence of excess hydrogen at the lunar poles... 255 KB (24,730 words) - 03:09, 1 May 2024 |
KREEP (section Lunar Prospector measurements) the crust of the lunar highlands, as well as the presence of the rocks rich in KREEP. Before the mission of Lunar Prospector lunar satellite, it was... 8 KB (849 words) - 07:17, 23 April 2024 |
Gravitation of the Moon (redirect from Lunar gravity) uplift of the crust-mantle interface is required as well. Based on Lunar Prospector gravitational models, it has been suggested that some mascons exist... 22 KB (2,329 words) - 21:07, 7 March 2024 |
Prospector was a proposed lunar probe that was intended to be flown in support of the Apollo lunar missions. Prospector arose as a result of President... 4 KB (428 words) - 03:46, 22 August 2022 |
A lunar rover or Moon rover is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon. The Apollo program's Lunar Roving Vehicle was... 21 KB (2,646 words) - 00:36, 30 April 2024 |
field. The Prospector DGE obtained data constituted the "first truly operational gravity map of the Moon". The purpose of the Lunar Prospector DGE was to... 32 KB (3,199 words) - 22:46, 9 April 2024 |
Planetary Observer program (redirect from Lunar Observer) was Mars Observer, in 1985. Lunar Observer (LO), proposed for a 1997 launch, would have been sent into a long-term lunar orbit at 60 miles above the Moon's... 5 KB (539 words) - 23:41, 30 December 2023 |
Lunar Prospector spacecraft. Ten days after Shoemaker's passing, Porco had the go-ahead from NASA administrators and delivered the ashes to the Lunar... 28 KB (1,912 words) - 15:17, 10 February 2024 |
Discovery Program (section Lunar focused) (Lunar Orbiter) Interlune-One (Lunar Rovers) Jovian Integrated Synoptic Telescope (IO Torus investigation) Lunar Discovery Orbiter Lunar Prospector (Lunar... 118 KB (8,472 words) - 15:01, 13 April 2024 |
of Eugene Shoemaker, the geologist whose remains were on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft that impacted this crater floor. Deposition of Shoemaker's... 8 KB (746 words) - 02:43, 26 January 2024 |
Apollo 13 (redirect from Lunar Module Aquarius) craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) ruptured... 116 KB (13,527 words) - 09:33, 27 March 2024 |
volatiles shed during comet impacts on the Moon. Measurements by the Lunar Prospector spacecraft showed higher than normal amounts of hydrogen within the... 26 KB (2,616 words) - 21:14, 5 March 2024 |
VIPER (rover) (category Commercial Lunar Payload Services) obtained by Lunar Prospector, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Chandrayaan-1, and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, revealed that lunar water... 21 KB (1,787 words) - 18:00, 18 April 2024 |
Apollo 10 (redirect from Apollo 10 Lunar Ascent Stage) Stafford and Gene Cernan flew the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) to within 14.4 kilometers (7.8 nmi) of the lunar surface, the point at which powered descent... 67 KB (7,625 words) - 18:50, 14 April 2024 |
Apollo program (redirect from Apollo lunar landings) landed their Apollo Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command... 150 KB (15,935 words) - 21:37, 24 April 2024 |
IM-1 (redirect from Odysseus (lunar lander)) was a lunar mission that was carried out jointly by a partnership between the NASA CLPS program and Intuitive Machines (IM), using an Nova-C lunar lander... 59 KB (4,645 words) - 10:33, 23 April 2024 |
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15... 43 KB (5,107 words) - 04:55, 1 May 2024 |
Magnetic field of the Moon (category Lunar science) these details are still speculative, but the Lunar Prospector spacecraft detected changes in the lunar nightside voltage during magnetotail crossings... 9 KB (1,086 words) - 11:09, 11 May 2023 |
List of Apollo astronauts (redirect from List of lunar astronauts) successful two-man landing missions, twelve men walked on the lunar surface, six of whom drove Lunar Roving Vehicles as part of the last three missions. Three... 41 KB (3,923 words) - 01:55, 30 April 2024 |
1998). "Fluxes of Fast and Epithermal Neutrons from Lunar Prospector: Evidence for Water Ice at the Lunar Poles". Science. 281 (5382): 1496–1500. Bibcode:1998Sci... 17 KB (1,727 words) - 14:38, 24 February 2024 |
orbiter, SELENE, Lunar Prospector, Chandrayaan, and Chang'e, to name a few, while the Soviet Luna programme and Apollo Program brought lunar samples back... 81 KB (8,735 words) - 02:48, 26 April 2024 |