In fact, no exaggeration to say that LADEE is a very expensive vacuum cleaner. LADEE stands for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, a mission robotic spacecraft to orbit the Moon to collect samples of dust floating know what the structure and composition of the atmosphere of our natural satellite. These data, which had not been well studied since the Apollo missions, will help scientists to deepen their knowledge about our natural satellite, as well as to better understand what happens in other planetary bodies, according to the U.S.space agency. Read the rest of this entry »