Moon dust stickiness depends on solar elevation angle

September 26th, 2009 DHAKA - Applauding India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission and the discovery of water on the moon, a Dhaka daily has said the find has significantly widened the scope for space research. But The Daily Star newspaper, in an editorial Saturday, cautioned against rivalry among those engaged in research and exploration on the moon.

September 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an instrument aboard India's recently ended Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, along with the Deep Impact spacecraft, has confirmed the existence of water on the surface of the Moon, with scientists explaining the process of its formation. "Water ice on the moon has been something of a holy grail for lunar scientists for a very long time," said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

July 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A scientist has said that the 40th anniversary of the Apollo lunar landing is a time to look back and, especially, an opportunity to look forward to future space exploration, including the Moon missions now being planned by NASA and other space agencies. Mark A. Bishop, an associate research scientist with the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, made the statement.

July 21st, 2009 MUMBAI - Did you know animals and birds often prepare for sleep or behave confusedly during total solar eclipse? Well, here are some other little known facts about solar eclipse. - The longest recorded duration for a total solar eclipse is 7.5 minutes.

July 20th, 2009 Apollo lunar rocks still offer clues to scientistsST. LOUIS — Forty years after the Apollo 11 astronauts made their historic lunar landing, the rocks they collected are still helping researchers learn more about the moon, the solar system, even about how life on Earth began.

July 20th, 2009 This solar eclipse will be one of those much waiting celestial phenomenon a total solar eclipse. It will be seen in India  from 5.35 a.m.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - In a new research, scientists have attributed the clinginess of Martian dust to electrons jumping back and forth between dust grains as they collide in the wind. he research became necessary as many probes sent to the Red Planet, like the Mars rover Spirit, get stuck in Martian soil.

July 20th, 2009 Researchers: Still learning from moon rocksST. LOUIS — Forty years after the Apollo 11 astronauts made their historic lunar landing, the rocks they collected are still helping researchers learn about the moon and the solar system.

July 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of scientists has for the first time observed energetic neutral atoms scattered off the Moon from the incoming solar wind ion beam. When the solar wind, made up mostly of ionized hydrogen, hits the Moon, most of it is absorbed, but some is reemitted as energetic neutral atoms.

June 25th, 2009 LONDON - A new research by European scientists has provided evidence that an enormous plume of water spurts in giant jets from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus is fed by a salty ocean, a discovery that may have implications for the search for extraterrestrial life. The Cassini spacecraft made a surprising discovery about Saturn's sixth largest moon, Enceladus, on its exploration of the giant ringed planet in 2005.

June 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the Moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence. During spacecraft commissioning, the IBEX team turned on the IBEX-Hi instrument, built primarily by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which measures atoms with speeds from about half a million to 2.5 million miles per hour.

June 11th, 2009 London, June 11 (ANI: A new analysis of craters of the Moon has suggested that the shattered remnants of a dwarf planet may have bombarded the inner planets in the early solar system. According to a report in New Scientist, several large impact scars on the moon appear to be around 3.9 billion years old, suggesting that the Earth and other objects of the inner solar system were heavily pounded at that time.

June 9th, 2009 LONDON - Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter will end its nearly two-year mission when it collides with the moon on June 10. According to a report in New Scientist, observers may be able to spot a bright flash or plume of dust from the crash, and researchers will study its impact site to watch how radiation and micrometeoroids weather the newly exposed lunar soil over time.

April 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Forty years after Apollo's moon mission, a scientist has figured out why moon dust is so sticky, ruining scientific equipment and endangering astronauts' health. He concluded that its stickiness changes as the sun moves higher in the sky, eventually allowing the very weak lunar gravity to pull the dust off.

April 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed that the Moon dust, which causes hazards like ruining scientific experiments and endangering astronauts' health, is influenced by the Sun's elevation. Lunar dust has long been described as the No.