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Natural and False colour views of Europa taken in 1997 by the Galileo Spacecraft. Credits: NASA, NASA-JPL, University of Arizona

Hubble finds long term presence of water vapour on Jupiter’s moon Europa

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The Hubble Space Telescope has found long term presence of water vapour on Jupiter's moon Europa, which also has an ocean under its icy surface.

Asteroids colliding with the moon billions of years ago.

How The Moon Evolved

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A short video showing how the moon was formed, when Earth was hit by a Mars sized object from the solar system, and then shaped with asteroid and comet collisions.

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Video – The Apollo 15 Hammer-Feather Drop

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At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, on August 2, 1971, Commander David Scott performed a live demonstration for the television cameras. He held out a geologic hammer (1.32-kg ) and a falcon fe...