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This is an image of a lunar eclipse as viewed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, with a model of the moon from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter replacing the lunar shadow.

The Moon and Sun: Two NASA Missions Join Images

06.12.2013
NASA visualizers created a unique eclipse image by combining the view from the Solar Dynamics Observatory with a model of the moon based on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.
Artist's conception of LRO orbiting the Moon.

NASA's Robotic LRO Spacecraft Provides Data for Human Exploration

06.11.2013
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is yielding information about the radiation environment humans will encounter as they venture into deep space.
LADEE Arrival at Wallops

LADEE Arrives at Wallops for Moon Mission

06.04.2013
The NASA Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) arrived today at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility to begin final processing for its trip to the moon later this year.
An artist’s depiction of the twin spacecraft (Ebb and Flow) that comprise NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission.

NASA's GRAIL Mission Solves Moon Mystery

05.30.2013
A mystery of the moon that imperiled astronauts and spacecraft on lunar missions has been solved using measurements made by NASA's GRAIL mission combined with LRO data.
Artist's conception of OSIRIS-REx landing on an asteroid.

NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into Development

05.16.2013
OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first mission to sample an asteroid, is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.
Artist's rendition of OSIRIS-REx orbiting an asteroid.

NASA Spacecraft Will Visit Asteroid with New Name

05.01.2013
The asteroid that will be explored by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has a new name, thanks to a third-grade student in North Carolina.
LRO LROC after view of GRAIL-A (Ebb) impact.

NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell

03.19.2013
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) watched as the twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft were intentionally crashed into a mountain near the moon's north pole.
Perry Gerakines measures how much far-ultraviolet light an ice sample absorbs using a spectrometer.

Goddard Lab Works at Extreme Edge of Cosmic Ice

02.27.2013
Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Goddard scientists make something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. Called amorphous ice, it's perfect for recreating some key chemistry of space.
Artist's concept of LRO in orbit.

LRO Featured in Special Issue of Planetary Journal

02.12.2013
Scientific observations made by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission are the subject of the latest special edition of the Journal of Geophysical Research Planets.
This is an artist's concept of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft near asteroid 1999 RQ36.

New NASA Mission to Help Us Better Estimate Asteroid Impact Hazard

02.07.2013
When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission studies an asteroid up close, one goal will be to measure the Yarkovsky effect -- one of the factors that can alter the path of a small object.
IMage of the Mona Lisa painting.

NASA Beams Mona Lisa to LRO at the Moon

01.17.2013
As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
Linné Crater on the Moon

Planetary CSI: Crater Science Investigations

11.05.2012
LRO gives us a closer look at the moon's pristine Linné Crater, which can tell us a lot about the history of Earth and other rocky planets.
Simulated image of Asteroid 1999 RQ36

NASA Announces Asteroid-Naming Contest for Students

09.04.2012
Students worldwide have the opportunity to name the asteroid that NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will visit. Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission will return samples from the asteroid for analysis on Earth.
Radar data indicate that the walls of Shackleton crater may hold ice.

Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice, LRO Radar Finds

08.30.2012
Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have estimated that as much as 5-10% of material, by weight, inside the moon's permanently shadowed Shackleton crater could be patchy ice.
LAMP Instrument

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spectrometer Detects Helium in Moon's Atmosphere

08.15.2012
The Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) spectrometer on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has made the first spectroscopic observations of helium in the moon's tenuous atmosphere.
Carbonaceous Meteorite Chip

Testing at Goddard: The Astrobiology Analytical Lab

08.03.2012
In Goddard's Astrobiology Analytical Lab, scientists look for clues to two of the world's biggest mysteries: How did we get here? And are we alone? The answers may lie in carbon-rich meteorites.
Artist's concept of excess left-hand aspartic acid created in asteroids and delivered to Earth via meteorite impacts

Meteorite Fragments Reveal a Clue to How Life Turned Left

07.25.2012
The work offers the strongest evidence so far that liquid water inside an asteroid leads to a strong preference for left-handed over right-handed forms of some common amino acids found in proteins.
Surrounded by darkness, Dr. Josh Sebree in a tie dyed lab coat and goggles changes the colors of liquids in beakers.

Students Competing in Chemistry Olympiad Visit NASA Goddard

07.23.2012
Nearly 300 of the world's top chemistry students came to Goddard on July 23, 2012, as part of the 44th International Chemistry Olympiad.
Elevation (left) and shaded relief (right) image of Shackleton, a 21-km-diameter (12.5-mile-diameter) permanently shadowed crater adjacent to the lunar south pole.

Ice Content Estimated for Crater at Moon's South Pole

06.20.2012
The laser altimeter on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in Shackleton crater at the moon's south pole.
Artist concept of OSIRIS-REx

Asteroid Nudged by Sunlight: Most Precise Measurement of Yarkovsky Effect

05.24.2012
Scientists working on the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission have measured their target's drift, caused by the subtle "push" of sunlight.
Artist's concept of the OSIRIS spacecraft

NASA Mission Wants Amateur Astronomers to Target Asteroids

04.18.2012
A new NASA outreach project will enlist the help of amateur astronomers to discover near-Earth objects and study their characteristics.
The renowned

LRO Brings 'Earthrise' to Everyone

04.18.2012
A new NASA visualization lets everyone see Earth rise from the lunar horizon, as the Apollo 8 astronauts did when they took the iconic 'Earthrise' photo on December 24, 1968.
An antarcticmeteorite analyzed in the study

Meteorites Reveal Multiple Ways to Make Life's Components

03.09.2012
New NASA research suggests that, in space, there is more than one way to make the crucial components of life known as amino acids, and this increases the likelihood that life could have emerged elsewhere in the universe.
Artist's concept of comet harpoon

NASA Developing Comet Harpoon for Sample Return

12.13.2011
The best way to grab a sample of a rotating comet racing through the solar system at 150,000 miles per hour may not be to land on it. So researchers are working on a harpoon that can be fired from a distance.

Asteroids, Mars and Drought Among NASA News Highlights at AGU

12.01.2011
NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the 2011 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Complete list of NASA-related AGU news briefings
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