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NASA spacecraft that has orbited the Moon since 2009, mapping its surface and studying lunar resources, terrain, and radiation environment.
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NASA and IBM's open lunar model ingests 11 instrument modalities across a 20,000-to-1 resolution range. USRA's account of how those observations were aligned is the part that explains the result.
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NASA measured an 18-meter hole left by a spent upper stage on Aug. 5, and the hunt for it doubled as a live test of impact-prediction tools built for planetary defense.
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A Science Advances paper says five ordinary human-associated microbes could stay alive in shadowed south-pole terrain. The expensive consequence is the baseline contamination survey it implies.
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A Science Advances paper says hitchhiking Earth microbes can persist in shadowed niches sometimes no bigger than a footprint, which moves contamination control from hardware treatment to traverse planning.
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The Lunar Foundation Model is trained by hiding parts of co-registered map tiles and making the network fill them back in, and its most interesting design choice is that it is told where the sun was rather than left to work it out from the shadows.
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The 2024 strike that punched a 222-metre hole in the Moon slipped past every telescope on Earth and in orbit. It was found by comparing orbiter images months afterwards, and NASA now wants to know what its debris could hit.
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McGetchin is the freshest large crater on the Moon's record. Its value to cratering science is that it is unweathered. The once-per-130-years recurrence figure still comes from a size model.
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Researchers at NASA Goddard and the University of Maryland mapped polar sunlight down to five metres per pixel and found small shadows where five skin-borne bacteria and fungi could sit dormant for days.
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A Max Planck team calibrated infrared readings against laboratory glasses of known composition and came out with less silicon dioxide on Mercury's surface than earlier estimates. How much less depends on how the release's 25 percent is read.
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The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model is a free download on Hugging Face, but the reusable part for other teams is the pixel-aligned dataset underneath it and the geographic split that stopped training leaking into the test set.
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A team calibrated infrared spectra against beads of known silica content, checked the method on the Moon where returned rocks can grade it, and now reads Mercury's surface as up to 25 percent poorer in silica than assumed.
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A German team calibrated infrared spectra against lab-made glass beads, tested the method on the Moon where returned samples exist, and came back with a crustal silica fraction about a quarter below the accepted one.
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NASA Goddard modelling says ordinary bacteria and fungi, not only the lab-famous extremophiles, can lie dormant in shaded pockets near the lunar poles. That makes cleanliness a build question.
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