03 April 2020
Newly discovered organisms in ancient solid rock inspire new search for life
... from the mantle, producing enormous volcanic eruptions of basalt at positions called mid-ocean ridges. These areas ...was very lucky, because I almost gave up," Suzuki said. As basaltic crusts are not unique to Earth, this finding not only advances our...
06 October 2017
Volcanic activity gave the early Moon an atmosphere
... percent of the lunar surface. These patches are large basaltic plains known as maria, and they are similar in ...The total amount of H2O released during the emplacement of the mare basalts is nearly twice the volume of water in Lake Tahoe. Although...
23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
...moon’s make-up, Chang’e-3 touched down on a smooth flood basalt plain, next to the Zi Wei crater, a fresh ...early magma oceans first solidified. Titanium, like other minerals found in basaltic magma, crystallise as the magma cools and they do so in ...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
...-M and TUBS-T, named after the German university, TU Braunschweig, at which they were developed. TUBS-M basalt is an alkali-olivine basalt found in Germany: it is fine-grained and dense and lacks degassing vesicles (see Figure 3). Other interstitial...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
..., has areas of sand, carbonates and mudstones as well as basaltic lava flows and deposits from glaciers and rivers, similar to some... similar those found on Mars. Photos: K Manick/SJ Gill/NHM Basalt found on both the Moon and Mars. Photos: K Manick/SJ ...
27 September 2021
Early findings from Chang'e 5 samples shows a mix of "exotic" materials
...materials collected by Chang'e-5 are 'mare basalts' and likely derive from the landing site and its immediate... more than 90 percent of all volcanic rock on Earth is basalt. Mare basalts are thought to have formed in the same way and they can ...
