28 January 2019
Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon
... on the Moon. The surprising find has been uncovered by an international team of scientists who had been studying a lunar sample returned by the Apollo 14 astronauts from their mission 48 years ago. The 2 gram fragment of rock, which is a possible...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
... Moon by 2024, a key aspect of the Artemis mission will be to bring something back with them - moon rocks. Lunar samples are worth their weight in gold and can provide a wealth of resources and information for both scientific...
02 December 2020
China's Chang'e 5 probe successfully lands on the Moon
... underground. The two methods could increase the chance of getting more diverse samples," said Peng. Once the surface mission is complete, the lunar samples will be returned to Earth via the ascender, which will take off and...
02 October 2018
New technique could provide fresh insights into how the Moon was formed
... a clean environment in a special building called the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at the agency’s Johnson Space Center (... of day. Nonetheless, NASA has approved the use of 18 lunar samples to be analysed at the synchrotron facility in the UK, the...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
... (Diamond Light Source) to develop X-ray imaging techniques to map rocks and minerals in 3D, and with NASA on lunar samples. He also works with volcano monitoring experts on Tenerife to improve forecasts of volcanic behaviour in real time. Beverly...
April 2026
Apollo lunar rover - the Lego version
...covers the antennas, batteries, science experiments, sample collection tools and those arguably superfluous display stands... rock, known as Big Muley (at 11.7 kg the largest lunar sample), which was collected on the Apollo 16 mission. Lego Technic...
