News & Features
LDEX is ready to launch
Set to launch on Friday, September 6th is NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE). LADEE will gather information about the lunar atmosphere and the dust environment over a four month mission. The instruments aboard LADEE are an Ultraviolet and Visible light Spectrometer (UVS), a Neutral Mass Spectrometer (NMS), and the Lunar Dust EXperiment […]
(Read more»)NLSI’s virtual conference about the Moon
For several years, NASA’s Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) has hosted the Lunar Science Forum (LSF) at NASA’s Ames Research Center. The LSF is an event dedicated to lunar science covering three topics; Of the Moon, On the Moon, and From the Moon. This year, the conference was held in a virtual format, bringing scientist from […]
(Read more»)LASP instrument ready for the Moon
NASA’s Lunar and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is set to launch in Fall of 2013. LADEE is a robotic mission developed to help characterize both the lunar atmosphere and lunar dust environment. With an approximate mission duration of 160 days, LADEE will gather details about the density, composition, and time variability of the lunar atmosphere […]
(Read more»)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, […]
(Read more»)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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