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Why did the USSR lose the Moon race? by Pravda.ru January 12, 2017 http://1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/russia-space.jpg?w=300 Credit: VentureBeat The Soviet Union was completely unprepared to beat the US in the space race. Americans landed on the Moon ...

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Model shows that multiple impacts could have produced our Moon Lots of smaller impacts could build a Moon, but the hypothesis has its issues. by Xaq Rzetelny Arstechnica.com January 14, 2017 https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/eso1210a-4f4e33a-intro.jpg Credit: European Southern ...

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Hope this is not posted earlier India's Mars Orbiter Mission Has a Methane Problem By Irene Klotz, Seeker | December 8, 2016 ............... "They did not design this properly for the detection of methane on Mars," Michael Mumma, senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, tol...

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https://d4z6dx8qrln4r.cloudfront.net/image-8257e8d856102c25a2858b764b4111f0-default.jpeg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2I84O_XcAIAT3o.jpg:large TeamIndus is inviting you behind the scenes of our Moonshot. The Open House on Jan 21, 2017 (Saturday) is an opportunity to learn more about our Mission, me...

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When and How Did the Moon Form? by Kelly Beatty Skyandtelescope.com January 13, 2017 New studies offer contrasting scenarios for making the Moon. One argues for a one big splat early in solar-system history; a second envisions a score of lesser blows that built up the Moon over time; and a third su...

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The company that wants to mine the Moon has enough money for its first trip there Moon Express just got $20 million in funding by Loren Grush Theverge.com January 13, 2017 https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/JRrKFsZhch_wvJSwPnkAQ8ynJk8=/0x0:1920x1080/920x613/filters:focal(807x387:1113x693):format(webp...

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City team aims to make mark in race to colonize Moon by Prathibha Joy TOI January 11, 2017 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com//thumb/msid-56442943,width-580,resizemode-4/56442943.jpg For years, man has been pushing the envelope in exploring space and the possibilities of finding or sustaining life ...

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Moon likely formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, scientists say by Abc.net.au January 12, 2017 The Moon is considerably older than previously thought and likely formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, scientists in the US have found. http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8177448-3x2-940x627.jpg Scien...

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The Many-Moons Theory By Alan Burdick Newyorker.com January 9, 2017 Our planet may once have had dozens of small moonlets, which welded together over the millennia into the object that’s visible today. Credit: PRINT COLLECTOR / GETTY http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Burdick-TheMa...

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French space agency to provide cameras to TeamIndus by Press Trust of India Business-standard.com January 9, 2017 French Space Agency CNES will provide cameras to TeamIndus, the only Indian team competing for the USD 30-million Google Lunar XPRIZE. http://thetechportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/0...

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Moon may have formed from flurry of impacts on the ancient Earth by Theguardian.com January 9, 2017 New computer simulations counter widely-held belief that moon was formed from a single massive collision https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e018fcacb93ad322be704259dc56d3d671cc90e3/0_345_5175_3105/master...

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A Walk On The Moon With Apollo 16's Charlie Duke by Jim Clash Forbes.com January 07, 2016 As part of Apollo 16 in April 1972, Charles Duke became the tenth -- and youngest -- man to step onto the lunar surface, just minutes after his crewmate John Young. In a way, Duke was famous even before he fle...

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Research may solve lunar fire fountain mystery by Phys.org August 24, 2015 http://cdn.phys.org/newman/csz/news/800/2015/researchmays.jpg Melt inclusions are tiny dots of magma frozen within olivine crystals. The crystals lock in volatile elements that may have otherwise escaped from the magma. Rese...

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To the moon and back: Bengaluru start-up could be game changer in space missions by Deepika S HT January 07, 2017 http://www.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_960x540/HT/p2/2017/01/07/Pictures/new-jersey_1b98b946-d48f-11e6-89f5-e9c163347fb8.jpg A soft-landing on the moon has never been done by India...

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'Levitating' Moon Dust Explained in New NASA Study by Samantha Mathewson Space.com January 6, 2017 http://www.space.com/images/i/000/061/420/original/lunar-dust-particles.jpeg?interpolation=lanczos-none&downsize=*:1400 Lunar dust particles can travel across vast regions of the moon via static e...

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The Evolution of ECA How to build a rover for the Moon 101 by Team Indus Medium January 2, 2017 ECA, the lovable TeamIndus rover, will fly on board our spacecraft to the Moon in December, 2017. Here’s a picture of some of the earlier versions. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*RDc7n29f77wXB...

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Could we yet get Man on the Moon? by Adrian Darbyshire Iomtoday.co.im January 05, 2017 http://www.iomtoday.co.im/webimage/1.8314922.1483443334!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/articleMaxWidth_620/image.jpg SpaceIL's lunar lander - an Israeli bid to reach the Moon has Manx connections Back in 2010, ...

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Aiming For The Google Lunar XPrize, An Indian Startup Is On A Mission To The Moon by Suparna Dutt D'Cunha Forbes.com January 3, 2017 http://data1.ibtimes.co.in/cache-img-0-450/en/full/613883/imgteamindus-rover.jpg Indian startup TeamIndus will fly a probe to the moon in December in an attempt to wi...

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25 Experiments In Race To Board TeamIndus Spacecraft To Moon by Ndtv.com January 4, 2017 http://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2016-09/lab2moon-teamindus_650x400_71473771066.jpg More than 3,000 teams participated in TeamIndus' Lab2Moon competition. BENGALURU: An experiment seeks to study photosynthesis on the Moo...

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China’s Moon Missions Are Anything But Pointless by Paul D. Spudis Airspacemag.com January 3, 2017 The value of the nation’s lunar robotic missions goes beyond science. http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/f9/93/f9932733-0c32-4367-807f-a1c0e6413e40/lander_1jpg.jpeg__800x600_q85_crop.jpg Th...

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China's lunar probe to bring soil samples back from the moon in 2017 by Mo Hong'e Ecns.cn January 03, 2017 (ECNS) China's unmanned lunar probe Chang'e-5, set to be launched around December 2017, will bring lunar soil samples back to Earth, says Wu Yanhua, deputy chief of the China National Space Ad...

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Four Out-Of-This-World Predictions For The Space Industry In 2017 by Elizabeth Segran Fastcompany.com January 1, 2017 Big things are happening in space travel and tech, with new startups mushrooming every day. Here are four trends to watch. https://c.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imag...

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Want to visit Mars? Start with a new moon mission by Adam Minter Tulsaworld.com January 1, 2017 https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/dc/8e/20/dc8e208edb3b688ad9f4b4468cb50edd.jpg Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt works beside a boulder at Station 6 during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activit...

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Google Lunar X Prize teams await word of their fate by Jeff Foust Spacenews.com December 30, 2016 http://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ptscientists-rover.jpg PT Scientists, a German team in the Google Lunar X Prize competition, says it doesn't expect to know if its launch contract announ...

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China plans on being the first country to land a probe on the far side of the Moon And to launch one to Mars by 2020. by Josh Hrala Sciencealert.com December 28, 2016 http://www.sciencealert.com/images/articles/processed/cassini-moon_dec_1024.jpg Chinese officials have announced an ambitious plan t...

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Up, up & away: Kolkata joins the lunar journey by Joydeep Thakur Hindustantimes.co m December 26, 2016 http://www.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_960x540/HT/p2/2016/12/26/Pictures/_79d0712c-cb23-11e6-a1a7-f672457d0d7f.jpg S K Chakrabarti (second from right) with ISRO and Team Indus officials i...

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Much respect to Team Indus' founder Rahul Narayan for his larger-than-life vision of putting a rover on the moon for the Google Lunar XPrize. For all the simple things that could be done in this world, he picked quite a challenge putting all aspects of his life on hold to achieve it. Even if he doe...

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America Needs a New Moon Mission by Adam Minter Bloomberg.com December 25, 2016 https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iqZabMfvpugU/v0/1200x-1.jpg Fifty years ago, the U.S. had the moon to itself. Starting in 1969, when the first of six Apollo missions touched down, it seemed likely that ...

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Whoa, so there will be two moon missions in the coming year, before the end of the year. The PSLV with the Indus team's rovers, and the GSLV Mark 2's Chandrayaan 2 mission. What is going on? Not that I'm complaining! :) Varoonji, I think there would be only one mission from India, the Team Indus mi...

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Three rovers in ISRO’s PSLV mission by Team Indus. by Avinash Nandakumar Indialivetoday.com December 24, 2016 http://www.indialivetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Three-rovers-in-ISROs-PSLV-mission-by-Team-Indus-indialivetoday.jpg Three rovers in ISRO's PSLV mission by Team Indus MUMBAI,DEC24: ...

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Here's who could win the $20 million XPrize for roving on the moon—but will any science get done? by Daniel Clery Sciencemag.org December 22, 2016 http://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline__699w__no_aspect/public/rover_1222_1280.jpg?itok=qckF7o-f One Lunar XPrize team wants to stu...

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Luna 9: 1st Soft Landing on the Moon By Elizabeth Howell Space.com December 21, 2016 http://www.space.com/images/i/000/061/119/original/first-moon-photo-surface.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&downsize=*:1400 The first image from the surface of the moon, taken by the Luna 9 spacecraft.Credit: NA...

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Graduating from the Google Lunar X Prize by John Thornton Spacenewsmag.com December 19, 2016 https://www.astrobotic.com/assets/people/john-thorton-606f11dc5175b300a5a8b9b3fd4dabb9.jpg John Thornton, chief executive of Astrobotic. https://www.spaceanswers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Icon_Logo_Dar...

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Google Lunar XPRIZE Team HAKUTO Announces Rideshare Agreement with TeamIndus for a 2017 Lunar Mission by Press Release Team-hakuto.jp December 20, 2016 Tokyo, Japan – December 20, 2016 — Team HAKUTO, the only Japanese team competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE, announced today that XPRIZE has offic...

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Lunokhod 1: 1st Successful Lunar Rover By Elizabeth Howell Space.com December 19, 2016 http://www.space.com/images/i/000/011/908/original/lunokhod-1-moon-rover.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&downsize=*:1400 On November 17, 1970 the Soviet Luna 17 spacecraft landed the first roving remote-contro...

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Judge: Mistakenly sold Apollo 11 moon mission bag is buyer's by Roxana Hegeman Phys.org December 14, 2016 http://images.thestatesman.com/uploads/images/2016/12/17/1481960533-moon-surface-926.jpg Moon's surface (Photo: Getty Images) http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/acc1198c2e214fdc0ed540325d67e553...

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Rogue scientists revive lost moon photos inside abandoned McDonald's by Dave Manoucheri Kcra.com December 16, 2016 http://hips.htvapps.com/htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/images/mcmoon-try-1480726523.gif?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=900:* A group of rebellious scientists achieved what NASA th...

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City team preps to put a robot on the Moon by Prathibha JoynTimes of India December 14, 2016 https://www.nextbigwhat.com/wp-content/uploads/Team-Indus-1.jpg Credit: Team Indus Space and its many mysteries have always intrigued us, which is also why news about a manned or unmanned mission going bold...

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NASA Casts Its Gaze Back To The Moon With Commercial Partnerships by Mark R. Whittington Forbes.com December 12, 2016 http://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/22aa4838c4724560a1f772fe4eeb0ab8/960x0.jpg?fit=scale The Washington Monument looms at right, as visitors gather around a full-size mo...

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Scimy interview: Mr Mohd Izmir Yamin of the Malaysian Independence-X team at Google Lunar XPrize by Dr. New Jaa Yien Scientific Malaysian October 31, 2016 The Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) is the largest incentive competition of all time (USD$30M ≈ RM120M) that aims to reward the brightest minds of sp...

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