25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
...The robots are also expected to conduct a Mars sample return mission, reports Chinese state-owned media Global .... With a string of recent successes including the Chang'e-5 lunar sample return mission, the deployment of Zhurong to the martian surface...
04 February 2019
The Moon is a mini-Earth suggests new research
...’s mantle than expected. “Scientists in the 1970s recognised the very low levels of some of these volatile elements in lunar samples,” Righter said. “Much lower than concentrations in the Earth. But lack of experimental data in the 1970s hindered...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... Chinese human Moon mission studies and discussions continue to increase as the CNSA robotic lunar programme enters its third phase with the upcoming lunar sample return of Chang’e-5. India may startle the space community with 2019...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... NASA astronauts for Gemini mission training in 1962. Lunar sample number 10003, one of many collected by Armstrong ... only clear 70 mm Hasselblad photograph of Armstrong captured on the lunar surface. The ‘gift’ of Armstrong Norman Mailer’s book, Of...
11 March 2019
LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon
...the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument, on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a team of scientists have observed ...previously conducted extensive experiments with water and lunar samples collected by the Apollo missions. The research...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
...Chang'e 4 have been adapted from Chinas earlier Chang'e 3 lunar probe, which took up residence on the Moon in December 2013... lunar base. The nation has two more missions lined up, Chang’e 5 and Chang’e 6, that will focus on collecting lunar samples ...
