NASA hopes to unravel more of the Moon's mysteries on Friday by launching an unmanned mission to study its atmosphere, the US space agency's third such probe in five years.

The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (Ladee) is to launch on Friday at 11:27 p.m. aboard a Minotaur V rocket—a converted peacekeeping missile— from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

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