27 May 2019
Third largest water reservoir on Mars found
Just as NASA awards research funding for in-situ resource utilisation on Mars, scientists at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arizona, uncover what is likely the ...
24 October 2019
SpaceX confirm plans to build cities on the Moon and Mars
... companies ambitions do not stop there however. The company plans to build propellant depots on Mars and utilise in situ resources in order to provide basic life support systems. With these in place, said Wooster, SpaceX’s eventual goal...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
..., the push for Mars is coming at an expense to previously welcomed lunar projects. Ventures such a lunar outpost or In Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) are being sidelined and activities on or around the surface of the Moon that do not contribute...
27 July 2020
Radiation-loving fungus could protect astronauts from cosmic rays
... the effects of harmful radiation hitting the Red Planet. However, if you combined the fungus with other in situ resources such as martian regolith, then a thinner layer of the black mould would suffice, say Shunk and colleagues...
