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==Lunar Orbiter Program== ...ter 4 photographed the entire nearside and 95 % of the far side, and Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the far side coverage and acquired medium (20 m) and high (2 m)

...—the first being Apollo 11 in 1969. These missions returned over 380 kg of lunar rocks, which have been used to develop a detailed geological understanding ...is always in sunlight, except during eclipses of the Moon by Earth. Some Polar high spots are high enough or nearly so to be constantly in the sunlight.<s

...that is incorporated in many minerals on Earth was completely absent from lunar minerals. ...d''' the water molecules would be atomized and accelerated out of the weak lunar gravity field. Otherwise there would be a slight atmosphere of water and o

LCROSS Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite .... After launch, the 'secondary payload,' LCROSS spacecraft arrived in the lunar vicinity independent of the LRO satellite. On the way to the moon, the spac

In 2009 massive amounts of new lunar data will become available to the public. This is a resource worth billion ...or scientific purposes. A different set of information will be needed for lunar engineering and mission planning. If software to generate these maps is ma

Long term lunar settlement, not to mention going on to Mars, will depend on successful extr ...gon-40 seeps out to the surface via fissures. This vented Argon enters the lunar atmosphere; then the Argon is implanted into the regolith by interactions w

...[[National Space Society]] and is co-founded with [[Myles Mullikin]] the [[Lunar Reclamation Society]], a chapter of the National Space Society. ...r moondust blanket with them! For a more complete account, see: http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/mmm_1.htm . Indeed, this moment became the wellspring for h

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