Tag: Artemis
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Off to Indian Ocean Splashdown: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship Completes 11th Test Flight
Overview: A Milestone in Spaceflight SpaceX has completed its eleventh full-scale test flight of the Starship rocket, a key milestone in the company’s bid to support NASA’s plans for crewed lunar landings by 2030. The mission, which saw Starship travel roughly halfway around the world, featured the spacecraft deploying eight mock Starlink satellites and executing…
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Off to Indian Ocean Splashdown: SpaceX Starship Completes 11th Test Flight
Overview: A Historic Step Toward Lunar Ambitions SpaceX’s Starship rocket marked another milestone in the ongoing push to return humans to the Moon and ultimately reach Mars. In its 11th full-scale test flight, the vehicle completed a roughly half-world journey, deploying mock satellites and executing controlled entry procedures before a splashdown in the Indian Ocean.…
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Moon’s Largest Crater Origins Rewritten: SPA Basin Study
Scientists Propose a New Twist on the Moon’s Largest Crater For decades, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin has stood as a giant, enigmatic scar on the Moon. Measuring more than 1,200 miles across, it is the planet’s largest known impact structure. A recent paper published in Nature challenges long-held assumptions about how this colossal crater…
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Moon SPA Basin Reimagined: New Clues on the Largest Crater
New View of the Moon’s Largest Crater New research published in Nature is prompting scientists to rethink how the Moon’s largest known impact basin, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, formed. Measuring more than 1,200 miles across, the SPA has long been a focal point for understanding the Moon’s early history. The latest analysis argues that…
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A New Take on the Moon’s Largest Crater: Could SPA’s Shape Rewrite Lunar History?
A fresh perspective on the Moon’s biggest crater For decades, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin has stood as a cornerstone of lunar geology. Spanning more than 1,200 miles across, it is the Moon’s largest known impact feature and a key target for NASA’s Artemis program. A new paper published in Nature challenges a long-held assumption:…
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Southward Impact Reveals Magma Ocean in Moon’s Pole-Aitken
Overview: A New Clue About the Moon’s Largest Crater For decades, scientists have studied the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, the Moon’s most expansive impact feature. A new study, published in Nature, upends a long-standing assumption about how this colossal crater formed. By analyzing the basin’s asymmetry and the distribution of radioactive materials, researchers argue that…
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New Clues from Moon’s Largest Crater: Southward Impact Exposed Magma Ocean on the Moon
Hidden History beneath the Moon’s Largest Crater Scientists have long studied the South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA) as a window into the Moon’s formative years. New research published in Nature suggests the basin’s distinctive shape and composition tell a story of a magma ocean at the Moon’s endgame and of an impact that came from the…
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Southward Impact Revealed Magma Ocean Clue at Moon’s Largest Crater
Revisiting the Moon’s Biggest Crater The Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA), the largest known impact feature in our solar system, has long been a subject of fascination for planetary scientists. Recent research digging into the basin’s shape and composition suggests a surprising twist: the basin’s oblong form and the distribution of interior materials point to…
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New Moon Findings Hint SPA Basin Holds Deepest Lunar Secrets
Unveiling the Moon’s Largest Crater The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is not just the Moon’s largest impact feature by size; its shape and composition may hold the key to rewriting lunar history. A recent study led by Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna at the University of Arizona argues that the SPA region sits on the downrange rim of…
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Artemis at SPA: Could a Moon Impact Rewrite Our Origin Story?
Introduction: A New Look at an Ancient Moon As NASA’s Artemis program prepares to touch down near the Moon’s south pole, a bold question guides researchers: could the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin hold the deepest clues about the Moon’s origin? A team led by Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna at the University of Arizona argues that SPA sits…