13 December 2019
NASA selects Nightingale site for asteroid sample collection
... Nightingale best meets these criteria and, ultimately, best ensures mission success.” Site Nightingale is located in a northern crater 230 feet (70 meters) wide. Nightingale’s regolith – or rocky surface material – is dark, and images show that the...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
...to global, regional and local catastrophes. Meteor Crater, the world’s best preserved meteorite impact site ...The Arizona and Tunguska meteorites are examples of such events. The Barringer crater, for example, is located in the state of Arizona and has...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... images are enhanced pictures based on the original. In the large image, impact craters of hundreds of metres in diameter, located along the crater rim, are marked by arrows. Understanding the implications and limitations of traversing at different...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
...km/s, some asteroids do not completely evaporate because of the collision, and their remnants remain embedded in the lunar craters. With the market value of lithium at several thousand dollars per kg, it becomes feasible and cost-effective to deliver...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
...and imaging from Dawn to model the region surrounding Occator crater, Raymond, who is based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...several resurfacing events that occurred millions of years after crater formation. Like the other studies connected to this...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... materials. But what factors drove this diversity? How did their chaotic features arise, studded with craters, variously heaped with pebbles or dust while often exhibiting dynamic behaviour such as avalanches, landslides and seismic...
