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...
24 February 2020
First results from InSight reveal a seismically active Mars
... extends down to 8 and 11 kilometres. These crustal layers contain a small amount of volatiles but are mostly composed of basaltic rocks – the same type of rock found in vast quantities on the surface of Earth and the Moon that...
02 January 2021
Life beneath glaciers is good news in the search for life on icy worlds
... lived in. For example, microbes in samples taken from the Kötlujökull Glacier in Iceland, which sits atop basaltic bedrock, produced much more hydrogen gas than those from the Robertson Glacier in Alberta, Canada, which...
03 March 2025
Blue Ghost lander operations underway on lunar surface
... commercial space company to land on the Moon after its robotic craft touched down at 0834 UTC on a dark basaltic plain called the Mare Crisium (Sea of Crises) near a solitary lunar mountain called Mons Latreille. Blue...
