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Here’s something interesting I came across last year while writing the article “How NASA decides where to land on Mars”. NASA had some restrictions in place for selecting the region its Perseverance rover will land on and explore. From its landing site selection page: The Mars 2020 Science Definition
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China and Russia to co-build a Moon base, Japan's 2021 Moon budget, ESA to monitor radiation in the Gateway, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference kicks off, and more developments in the lunar space.
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SpaceX lands Starship prototype, Intuitive Machines and Astrobotic on track for robotic Moon landings this year, paper on the Moon's origin, a sodium tail, and more developments in the lunar space.
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And why explore them.
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South Korea's first Moon mission on track, China to build Saturn-V class rocket, NASA flaunts a flexible lunar robotic arm, ESA wants to explore lunar caves, and more developments in the lunar space.
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When all sun-like stars die in few tens of billion years, planets orbiting red dwarf stars might be the only options for life to take root on.
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SLS rocket hot fire re-test incoming, Chandrayaan 3 delayed, Russia might co-build China-led Moon base, Astrobotic makes progress on VIPER mission, and more developments in the lunar space.
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SpaceX to launch Gateway lunar station elements, the cost of NASA's Artemis program, Turkey aims for a Moonshot, LRO can slew again, and more developments in the lunar space.
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Firefly to carry NASA instruments to the Moon, a book on lunar dust, new radar tech takes sharpest image of Apollo 15 landing site, and more developments in the lunar space.
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NASA to redo SLS hot fire test, Intuitive Machines readies NASA instruments for their first Moon landing, Earth maybe a source of surface Moon water, and more developments in the lunar space.
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China outlines availability of Chang'e 5 samples, a Moon rock sits in the White House, scientists see the Moon lose its magnetic field, and more developments in the lunar space.
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NASA's SLS rocket fails critical test, Astrobotic readies water-detecting NASA instruments for their first Moon landing, Japan to collaborate on Gateway, and more developments in the lunar space.
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