News & Features
CCLDAS community celebration focuses in on the Moon
Members of the Boulder community joined CCLDAS scientists, staff, and students under the glow of a First Quarter Moon on Saturday evening for the 2012 International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN) celebration. The event was an opportunity for the community to view the Moon through a lunar telescope, learn about the latest in lunar science, [...]
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Cosmo Quest interviews Dr. Mihály Horányi
On August 1, 2012, Dr. Mihály Horányi was interviewed by Cosmo Quest regarding instrumentation aboard the New Horizons and LADEE missions, plasma physics, and lunar and space dust. Horányi discussed the practical reasons for studying plasmas and dusty plasmas experimentally and theoretically, and the various implications to future lunar and space missions. Horányi’s interview can [...]
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Space science stars align at CCLDAS New Media workshop
A group of New Media communicators gathered at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) this past weekend to discuss the most up-to-date issues surrounding lunar and small bodies science and exploration with experts in the field. Sponsored by CCLDAS, the weekend-long workshop offered professional development for bloggers, podcasters, and other science communicators. Laptops [...]
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CCLDAS supports largest eclipse-viewing party on record
The mass viewing of Sunday evening’s solar eclipse at CU-Boulder broke world records, with close to 10,000 attendees filling the stands at Folsom Field. Organized by Fiske Planetarium and co-sponsored by the two NASA Lunar Institute teams from CU—CCLDAS and the Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research (LUNAR)—the event set a new record for the [...]
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Weighty video gives new understanding of Moon’s gravity
Forty years after the NASA Apollo 16 mission, a dusty video has given scientists fresh perspective on the surface of the Moon. CCLDAS scientists analyzed Apollo 16 video images of dust clouds kicked up by the rover to show that they followed ballistic trajectories, or paths taken under the force of gravity alone. The analysis [...]
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