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      Engineers unveil China moon rover

      Posted by Jeff from BBC News

      Unlike the solar-rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used by the US space agency's (Nasa) Mars rovers, the Chinese model will eventually run on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Such devices convert heat from a radioactive source into electricity.

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      NASA Plans Permanent Base on the Moon

      Posted by chuckt from New York Times

      Interesting question here: “The fear is that the Moon, which is now viewed as a means to get beyond the Moon, will become its own destination, for hundreds of years. The easy way to go to the Moon is the hard way to go to Mars." So says Howard McCurdy, a NASA expert at American University.

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      Moon Chemistry Confirms Violent Origin

      Posted by Billbar from Space.com

      The European Space Agency's lunar-orbiting craft called SMART-1 has completed the first detailed chemical mapping of the lunar surface. The detected chemicals, such as calcium and magnesium, give a boost to the longstanding theory that the Moon formed from the debris flung into space after a collision between early Earth and a Mars-size planet.

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