02 September 2019
Strange substance discovered by China's lunar rover on far side of the Moon
... continues on its way west of its landing site in the Von Kármán Crater, the rover has made a strange discovery; a gel-like substance with ... that which created the 180 kilometre-wide Von Kármán Crater where the Chang’e-4 mission landed. However as the...
07 October 2019
Salty rocks found by Curiosity supports theory that Mars once had vast lakes
... significantly limit operations. In the mean time, the rover will continue to explore other younger rocks in Gale crater, to hopefully reveal additional insights on the drying out of Mars’s surface. A close up of the bedrock analysed by William Rapin...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... dish and use it as a radio telescope. Called the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT), the dish would be able to observe the... kilometre in diameter on the inside of a large lunar crater. This would require only a few robots from Earth thereby...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... samples for a possible return to Earth by future Mars sample return missions from its landing location in Jezero Crater. Jezero Crater is thought to contain fan-delta deposits, rich in clays. Scientists want to visit the shoreline of this sizeable...
08 June 2018
Curiosity discovers ancient organic molecules on Mars
...have found seasonal variations in methane levels around the Gale Crater region. The study, which has been in place ...three martian years), shows that low levels of methane within the crater repeatedly peak in warm, summer months and drop in the winter...
18 November 2020
Astronomers want to revive idea for ‘Ultimately Large Telescope’ on the Moon
... NASA awarded a grant for the development of the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) – a wire-mesh receiver one ... work as a mirror. Furthermore, the ULT would be situated inside a crater at the Moon’s north or south pole, say the team interested in ...
