Lunar Prospector was the third mission selected by NASA for full development and construction as part of the Discovery Program. At a cost of $62. 8 million, the 19-month mission was put into a low polar orbit of the Moon, accomplishing mapping of surface composition and possible polar ice deposits, measurements of magnetic and gravity fields, and study of lunar outgassing events. Based on Lunar Prospector Neutron Spectrometer (NS) data, mission scientists have determined that there is indeed water ice in the polar craters of the Moon. The mission ended July 31, 1999 when the orbiter was guided to an impact into a crater near the lunar south pole in an (unsuccessful) attempt to analyze lunar polar water by vaporizing it to allow spectroscopic characterization from Earth telescopes.
NASA Ames Address nasa ames conference center Ames Address NASA .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames exploration center moffett field mountain Address NASA Ames .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames research center NASA Ames Address .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames fire department fire station moffett field NASA Address Ames 1 1.
NASA Ames Address nasa ames fire department fire station moffett field Ames NASA Address .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames visitor center mountain view 2018 all you NASA Address Ames .
NASA Ames Address tour of nasa ames research center Address NASA Ames .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames fire department fire station moffett field Ames Address NASA .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames picture of nasa ames visitor center mountain NASA Address Ames .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames fire department fire station moffett field NASA Ames Address .
NASA Ames Address aee contact us nasa Address NASA Ames .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames fire department fire station moffett field NASA Address Ames .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames fire department fire station moffett field Address NASA Ames .
NASA Ames Address nasa nasa ames research center Ames NASA Address .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames fire department fire station moffett field Ames Address NASA .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames exploration center at moffett field in mountain Ames Address NASA .
NASA Ames Address visit nasa39s ames research center nasa Ames NASA Address .
NASA Ames Address 14 sights you must see in silicon valley business insider NASA Ames Address .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames address Ames NASA Address .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames fire department fire station moffett field Address Ames NASA .
NASA Ames Address nasa ames fire department fire station moffett field Ames NASA Address 1 1.
NASA Ames Address contact information nasa Ames NASA Address .
Each of the little Space eggs resides within its own ring arc--which is a fragmentary ring of Saturn. One hypothesis states that glittering ice crystals swarming around in the ring arc might be floating down to the surface of Methone, filling in its impact craters or other rough topography. This is something that is thought to have occurred on two other small, icy moons of Saturn--Atlas and Pan. Icy stuff swarming around in Saturn's rings apparently piled up around each moonlet's equator. A Moon Made Of Lightweight Fluff! Methone is small and oval--and unlike other tiny objects, composed of rock and ice, that scurry around our Solar System. Methone, which was observed up close for the very first time in 2012, is not pockmarked by impacts like other worldlets of its kind. Instead, this strange little moon, is very smooth--it shows not a hill nor an impact crater anywhere on its weirdly smooth surface. This shiny, white, icy egg in Space, residing in a peaceful nest of ice crystals, is an enigma wrapped in a bewildering mystery that some astronomers may have solved. The answer to the bewitching riddle of Methone? It is composed of lightweight fluff! People with 'Airy' Moon, (Gemini, Libra or Aquarius) will need to communicate to others their ideas, opinions, ideals, knowledge or beliefs to others in order to feel right about themselves. Finding out, learning and passing on information on will be nourishment for them, as well as a good conversation with like-minded or intellectual people. Curiosity and the need to know could be the thing that forces them out their comfort zone. Negatively they could be too influenced by others options, be indecisive or simply a 'gossip'.