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China has started producing Hang Nga 3 ships
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China has started producing Hang Nga 3 ships

THX quoted China's moon exploration project management agency as saying that the country has begun designing and manufacturing the third Lunar exploration ship, Hang Nga…

December 17, 2018
The violent evolution of the Moon
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The violent evolution of the Moon

The moon is thought to have formed since a Mars-sized planet hit our Earth 4.5 billion years ago, creating billions of tons of hot matter in the universe and forming the…

December 17, 2018
On the Moon many giant craters
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On the Moon many giant craters

The probe of NASA's Space Aeronautics Agency (NASA) has just sent back to Earth the first image on the Moon's surface that shows many giant craters - reported on CNN on…

December 17, 2018
China plans to send people to the Moon
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China plans to send people to the Moon

China first officially published a document about the intention to send people to the Moon, information in the US Financial Times said.

December 17, 2018
NASA's laboratory on Moon's orbit
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NASA's laboratory on Moon's orbit

NASA officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said the No. 1 Gravity Recovery Laboratory (GRAIL-A) entered the Moon's orbit at 22:01 GMT on De…

December 17, 2018
Close-up of the 'super deep hole' moon
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Close-up of the 'super deep hole' moon

In November 2011, NASA's LRO spacecraft flew through the Aristarchus wormhole of the moon. The photographs showed the diameter of the pit up to 40km and its depth of mor…

December 17, 2018
ISS station flies over the Moon
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ISS station flies over the Moon

A NASA photographer captured a very unique scene, the International Space Station flew past the Moon. The special thing is that the picture was taken entirely with a nor…

December 17, 2018
NASA launched the Lunar Travel Law
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NASA launched the Lunar Travel Law

Although it is still a long time for the Moon to travel, NASA is afraid that tourists will harm the relics that the US had left in the flight up in the 60s and 70s of th…

December 17, 2018
In 10 years people will go to Mars
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In 10 years people will go to Mars

The deputy director of the Space Flight Center, Russian astronaut Pavel Vinogradov, confirmed that no later than 15 years, humans will fly to Mars.

December 17, 2018
The dark side of the Moon gradually
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The dark side of the Moon gradually

The Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe from NASA has for the first time captured images of the dark side of the Moon with a resolution 100 times higher than ...

December 17, 2018