September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
... a spacecraft landing module to Earth. The temperature during the atmospheric transition was high enough to melt the basalt surface. Thermoanaerobacter siderophilus survived the penetration and viable cells were recovered from four out of 24 slots...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... supporting the rooms is crucial. Second, we can expect basaltic lava, once cooled, to have a much higher density ... for radiation shielding in the surface environment. The permeability of basalt stone is also superior to that of a sintered process,...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... Gusev Crater. What Spirit found upon landing was an eroded basaltic lava plain. Spirit drove 2.7 km to the Columbia Hills ... erupted from more silica-poor iron and magnesium rich basaltic magmas so the suggestion of silica-rich magmas is significant...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... filled with molten lava. The two most common kinds of rocks on the Moon are basalts and anorthosites. The lunar basalts are relatively rich in iron and also rich in titanium and are found in the maria...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
...the iridium anomaly can be explained by a mixture of volcanic basalt like that of Kilauea in Hawaii. However, the team ...disagree with this suggestion, stating that the volcanic basalts cannot produce materials outside of a specified area and...
09 August 2016
Yutu, the Chinese Moon Rover, Dies on the Moon
... of data. Yutu's data gathering helped discover a new type of basalt, different from samples found by Apollo astronauts and the Luna landers. ...to scan under the lunar surface and locate a top basalt layer. “This indicates that until the late period, ...
