Earth's Moon

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
2024 Solar Eclipse
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Solar System
Editor’s Note, April 16, 2024: This story has been updated to remove an unclear secondary image and caption. As the Moon blotted out the Sun to viewers across the United States during the April 8 solar eclipse, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured an image from some 223,000 miles away of the highly anticipated celestial […]
Posted April 15, 2024
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter), which has been circling and studying the Moon for 15 years, captured several images of Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s Danuri lunar orbiter last month. The two spacecraft, traveling in nearly parallel orbits, zipped past each other in opposite directions between March 5 and 6, 2024.
Posted April 5, 2024
2024 Solar Eclipse
Earth's Moon
Eclipses
Skywatching
Skywatching Tips
Solar Eclipses
Catch Mars and Saturn rising, and Jupiter hangs out with Comet 12P. Plus NASA has you covered for the total eclipse whether you’re headed to totality or watching from afar.
Posted April 1, 2024
General
Ames Research Center
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
NASA’s VIPER – short for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – now stands taller and more capable than ever. And that’s thanks to its mast. VIPER’s mast, and the suite of instruments affixed to it, looks a lot like the rover’s “neck” and “head.” The mast instruments are designed to help the team of rover drivers […]
Posted April 1, 2024
Artemis
Artemis 3
Earth's Moon
Science & Research
Technology
NASA has chosen the first science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during Artemis III. Once installed near the lunar South Pole, the three instruments will collect valuable scientific data about the lunar environment, the lunar interior, and how to sustain a long-duration human presence on the Moon, which […]
Posted March 26, 2024
People of Goddard
Earth's Moon
People of NASA
Planetary Science
Lunar scientist Casey Honniball conducts lunar observations and field work near volcanoes to investigate how astronauts could use instruments during moonwalks.
Posted March 19, 2024
Earth's Moon
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
Uncategorized
NASA has awarded five scientists and engineers Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation (DALI) grants to support the development of instruments for potential use in future lunar missions, including the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services and Artemis campaign.  The awardees were recognized during NASA’s Technology Development Plan
Posted March 13, 2024
2024 Solar Eclipse
Earth's Moon
Eclipses
Solar Eclipses
Uncategorized
How do we know exactly where and when the Moon will cast its shadow? Eclipse prediction depends on understanding the positions and movements of the Moon, Sun, and Earth. Modern maps build on a long human history of eclipse forecasting. And since 2009, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been mapping the Moon in unprecedented detail.
Posted March 11, 2024
Technology
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Robotics
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lunar surface together as a tech demo to show the promise of multirobot missions. A trio of small rovers that will explore the Moon in sync with one another are rolling toward launch. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California […]
Posted March 7, 2024
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
On Feb. 22, Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, called Odysseus, completed a seven-day journey to lunar orbit and softly landed near crater Malapert A in the South Pole region of the Moon at 6:24 p.m. EST. On Feb. 24, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft passed over the landing site at an altitude of about 56 miles […]
Posted February 26, 2024
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