Events with tag - Lunar Research

September 14, 2007

Japan Launches SELENE Lunar Mission

Japan's JAXA space agency launched SELENE (Kaguya), their first lunar orbiter, from Tanegashima Space Center. The mission represented the largest lunar exploration project since NASA's Apollo program, carrying 13 scientific instruments to study the Moon's composition and structure.

September 24, 2009

Chandrayaan-1 Moon Water Discovery

India's Chandrayaan-1 mission made a groundbreaking discovery of water molecules on the Moon using NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument. This historic finding challenged previous beliefs about the Moon's composition and opened new possibilities for future lunar exploration and human settlement.