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but we are now a step closer to better understanding the moon's early history and evolution over time." Using high-resolution data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Bernhardt and his team ...

WITH the aid of the Lunar Orbiter IV high resolution photographs, the morphology and distribution of sinuous rilles over a large fraction of the surface of the Moon can be studied in detail.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is using the pictures captured by the orbiter to create the highest resolution 3D map of Moon till date. Using the orbiter’s Orbiter High-Resolution ...

NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last ...

The surface of the Moon is covered in huge dark spots, visible from Earth even with the naked eye. These patches are known as maria - a Latin word meaning 'seas'. Prof Sara Russell, a planetary ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has planned a public release of this data from Chandrayaan 2 in October. This is the same data that the Indian space agency is already using to create ...

New high-resolution imagery might reveal subtle morphological clues around any suspected ... These new efforts may reveal ...

The Apollo moon program resulted in a legacy of thousands ... scheduled for the Apollo 8 mission were to do with capturing high resolution images of the lunar surface - both of the far side ...

Several big missions are headed to space to enhance our understanding about planets, asteroids and the deep space.

But Nasa has had a reconnaissance craft orbiting the Moon since 2009. It sends back high-resolution images showing signs of exploration on the surface by the Apollo missions, such as footprints ...