January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... example of lava filled craters. Indeed, the majority of the impact craters on Mars are filled by lava and/or by basaltic sands of volcanic origin transported by the wind. The solar arrays on NASA’s InSight lander are deployed in this...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
.... The testbed will comprise a lunar regolith simulant sourced from the local Eifel region volcanic and basalt sources, which provides a satisfactory mechanical and compositional simulant. The simulant testbed area is planned to be 50 cm in depth...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... lava tubes, which a traditional wheeled rover might find challenging. Lava tubes are subsurface tunnels, formed by basaltic lava flows – on Earth and on the Moon - and have long been proposed as viable locations for future...
23 June 2016
Newly found mineral on Mars hints at explosive volcanism
... associated with silicic volcanism, an explosive type of volcanism that on Earth can cover vast areas called flood basalt provinces, but on Mars, tridymite was not thought to be important or even present. Accordingly, this discovery throws into...
18 September 2017
'Mars crew' emerge from isolation after 8 months study on Hawaii
... at a time. The site is a former cinder rock quarry on the side of a spatter cone and the the weathered basaltic materials found in this part of Hawaii are reminiscent of the regolith found Mars. Not only does HI-SEAS...
06 January 2020
New evidence suggests that Venus has active volcanoes
... colleagues did. In the lab, the team looked at how an abundant mineral, olivine, found in lava rocks known as basalt, reacts when exposed to an atmosphere as hellish as Venus’. Dr Filiberto and colleagues found that once erupted onto the...
