March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... a commercial smartphone are unforgiving, and their commercial componentry may well be sufficient for spaceflight. Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission However, many spaceflight missions still automatically require MilSpec...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... replenished in a way yet to be clarified, and its craters may hold more ice than the Moon. Not surprisingly, there...a different wavelength range. Finally, BepiColombo will look for the crater left by MESSENGER on the surface of Mercury in 2015 and...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently exploring the Gale crater on Mars, weighs in at 899 kg ..., a mission that will use lasers to shed light on the permanently darkened craters of the Moon’s poles, to probe the composition of the lunar surface within...
10 September 2015
Ceres Occator crater: bright spots as you’ve never seen them before
... mission, show its in greatest detail yet. Detailed images of the Occator crater on Ceres, which contains the bright spots, as well as oblique views of the crater and animations, have been released to the public. Widespread speculation as to why...
15 March 2019
Major comet impact burned Earth 13,000 years ago
...of a very young, 31 kilometre-wide impact crater beneath the Greenland ice sheet which impacted Earth .... The same cannot be said for Earth 13,000 years ago but the crater beneath the Greenland ice sheet and the “black mat” layer convincingly point ...
13 November 2019
Curiosity uncovers oxygen mystery on Mars
...gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on the Red Planet. One of the jobs NASA's ... around the martian surface is to inhale the air around Gale Crater with its Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument and analyse what...
