Individual nodes launched by different space agencies can and likely will carry additional, unique experiments to study local or global lunar science.

LSI is viewed as a major potential stimulus to lunar science at MSC and elsewhere.

The Lunar Science Institute is composed of seven teams across the nation, each with a different focus for lunar science.

The geology of the Moon (sometimes called selenology, although the latter term can refer more generally to "lunar science") is quite different from that of the Earth.

(Not a thing in lunar science, not a point of view or method of thinking, that these wonderful beings did not carry in their heads!)

"Space science" means astronomy and astrophysics, solar and space plasma physics, and planetary and lunar science.

To perform new measurements relevant to advanced technology demonstration, lunar science and exploration.

Today, selenography is considered to be a subdiscipline of selenology, which itself is most often referred to as just "lunar science."

Nevertheless, the board also noted that Clementine's limited instrument complement prevented it from accomplishing the highest priority in lunar science, namely determination of the moon's geochemistry.

Foing has published over 400 articles, including 160 refereed papers, in lunar and planetary science and exploration, solar/stellar physics and astrobiology.