October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
...increase the scope of testing novel personal radiation protection equipment - specifically, the AstroRad radiation protection garment. MARE also has the distinction of being the first experiment designed to assess the radiation dose deposition within...
31 July 2017
Complex chemistry on Titan may form membranes
... fill one of Titan’s great lakes. If, over the the lifetime of Titan, enough vinyl cyanide accumulated in Ligeia Mare – Titan's second-largest lake – the team calculate that around 10 million extra terrestrial membrane substitutes, or azotosomes...
27 September 2021
Early findings from Chang'e 5 samples shows a mix of "exotic" materials
... than 90 percent of all volcanic rock on Earth is basalt. Mare basalts are thought to have formed in the same way and they..., a 39 kilometer wide impact crater that lies on the Mare Frigoris, is a significant contributor to the many exotic fragments ...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... right time and splashed down close to the recovery ship. ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet installing the MARES machine in Europe’s Columbus space laboratory. ESA astronaut Tim Peake during his 4 hour 43 minute spacewalk to replace...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... proposal for the location of the docking stations is the trio of craters Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, and Arzachel, northeast of Mare Nubium. This is a very interesting area carved with long valleys and it would provide an excellent opportunity for...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
... therefore still hot, traversed the cold crust, and spilled onto the surface to form the dark mare regions. It is these later-stage volcanic rocks that are of great interest, because their journeys are analogous...
