12 June 2020
NASA picks Astrobotic to fly VIPER to the Moon
NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh $199.5 million to deliver NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon’s South Pole in late 2023. The water-seeking mobile VIPER robot ...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
...) and will carry a European contribution called PROSPECT. This payload element is going to establish a comprehensive inventory of lunar polar volatiles found in the lunar exosphere, the surface regolith, and the subsurface at the landing site. As the...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... estimate of 5 million cubic kilometres concentrated mainly in both polar caps - would not be enough to carve out the biggest...atmosphere that is mostly the result of the interchange with the polar caps. This is also taking into account that all of the...
27 July 2018
A pool of liquid water found under Mars' south pole
...water buried under the surface of the martian south polar region. Mars is littered with many geological features whose...the top corresponds to the icy surface of Mars. Layers of the south polar layered deposits – layers of ice and dust – are seen to a ...
June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
...at specific altitudes that are optimal for their mission. The polar orbital region, ranging between 500 and 800 km above Earth... out within a few minutes. This doomsday scenario, transferred to polar orbit, could mean the end of human access to space. ...
27 May 2019
Third largest water reservoir on Mars found
... likely the third largest water reservoir on Mars after the polar ice caps. The newly discovered water is of the frozen..."Surprisingly, the total volume of water locked up in these buried polar deposits is roughly the same as all the water ice known to...
