28 April 2021
First piece of China's space station expected to launch this week
...target the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, an immense impact crater roughly 2,500 kilometres in diameter and between 6.2 and ... rock layers (strata) – show that SPA is the oldest impact basin on the moon, but scientists are intensely interested in just ...
16 July 2015
Geologically active Pluto and Charon: Young mountains between Tombaugh Regio and Cthulhu Regio, ‘Mordor’ at Charon’s North Pole
... to lead a manned mission to explore that particular part of Pluto – but hey, that’s just us). Conspicuously absent are impact craters. This very likely means geological activity – processes by which Pluto’s surface has been reshaped over time...
11 May 2018
Revolutionary X-Ray navigation system to be used on CubeSat mission
... which elements make up outcrops of the Moon’s rocky mantle and its crust which have been exposed by impact craters striking the surface. The team will have to wait a few years to exploit the next solar maximum...
28 June 2019
NASA drone to search for signs of early life on Titan
...8 kilometres (5 miles) at a time up the slopes of the escarpment, while stopping to take samples as it heads towards Selk impact crater. Dragonfly’s instruments will search for chemical evidence of past or extant life and in doing so could shed light...
23 November 2020
China's lunar sample return mission to launch tonight
... surrounding mare surface and covers an area of approximately 4000 square kilometres. It is populated with various landforms including impact craters, domes, scarps, wrinkle ridges and linear depressions and samples from the area will help scientists...
01 August 2019
Mercury: the View after MESSENGER
..., including Mercury’s chemical composition, its crust and internal structure, its magnetic field and the effects of impact cratering, to name but a few. Each contribution has academic section numbering and a reference section and is illustrated with...
