January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...a small carry-on impactor (SCI) to generate an artificial crater to expose subsurface material. In August, the international science team... will strike the asteroid to form an artificial crater, revealing fresh material that has not been weathered...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... analyses of returned samples, the main source of information on lunar water (in the form of ice) in permanently shadowed polar craters was acquired by the neutron spectrometer aboard the Lunar Prospector spacecraft. The impact of the Lunar...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... dissipation and today is at 60 Earth radii. Large planetesimal impacts on the Moon result in magma filling the resulting craters in addition to generating a lunar atmosphere from the resulting outgassing. These volcanic rock regions are the dark...
10 May 2019
Bezos unveils Moon mission with Blue Moon lander
... hydrogen – and the mission’s intended destination; Shackleton crater. This important impact crater lies at the Moon’s south pole and is of...due to its potential resources. Not only does the crater receive almost perpetual sunlight, making it a useful ...
03 August 2020
Mars was cold and icy, not warm and wet, new study says
...the agency’s newest rover, Percy, to Jezero Crater in order to collect samples which scientists hope might contain traces ... basin just north of the Martian equator. Scientists believe the crater was once home to an ancient river delta caused by water...
27 September 2021
Early findings from Chang'e 5 samples shows a mix of "exotic" materials
... relatively rare on the side of the Moon that faces Earth. By using simulations to trace back to potential parent craters, and comparing their ages through comprehensive literature studies, Qian and colleagues show that Harpalus, a 39 kilometer...
