23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
...smooth flood basalt plain, next to the Zi Wei crater, a fresh impact crater that had conveniently excavated material from below the regolith. ...exactly how this happened. Possibly there were big impacts during the magma ocean stage that disrupted the ...
October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
...characteristics and varying involvement of liquid water - from re-activated crater wall gully systems and dark streaks on dunes, to ... pure liquid water but with salty liquid brine. Impact craters and an intricate channel network photographed by ESA’s ...
10 May 2019
Bezos unveils Moon mission with Blue Moon lander
... tweet is tied to the lander’s power source – liquid hydrogen – and the mission’s intended destination; Shackleton crater. This important impact crater lies at the Moon’s south pole and is of interest to many with plans to touch down on our nearest...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
...has the most active volcanic mountains and the largest impact craters among the planets in our solar system, which makes ...it among the most scientifically interesting. The impact craters are thought to have formed about four billion years ...
01 July 2016
Asteroid Day was celebrated on June 30 – but what was it all about?
... Tunguska event was a large explosion that is generally attributed to a mid-air disruption of a superbolide. Although no impact craters have been located and the object is thought to have exploded at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometers, it's classified...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
... many orders of magnitude less than the Chicxulub impact that terminated the dominance of the dinosaurs, 65 ...origins is written in the bodies of comets and asteroids and in the impact craters they have left on rocky bodies of the Solar System. If we ...
