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NASA Plans Robotic Lunar Scouts

Posted by michael on from the takeover-imminent dept.

bleckywelcky writes "NASA's plan to send robotic scouts to the moon in advance of astronauts is starting to take shape, but politics and the presidential election are stalling progress. Yet, NASA is already designing the first of the robotic explorers. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter would return a global topographical map of the moon, measure deep space radiation in lunar orbit and attempt to find water ice at the lunar poles. Read the whole story."

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  1. Duke Nukem Forever! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck this.. just release Duke Nukem Forever, 3dRealms!

  2. Cool Topgraphy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Check out the Lunar Surface! Should be familiar to most /. readers.

  3. Re:Backwards by jbarket · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Greetings, and welcome to slashdot! It's hard to find a post where something isn't hideously mismoderated. A while back we had a post about morse code, to which somebody replied *in* morse code--something silly like first post or whatever--and I replied that it was a goatse link... and I was moderated Insightful.

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  4. cant be robo-sexuals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Scouting prohibits the practice of robo-sexuality!

  5. mods 3own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    same year, BSD centralized