July 2019
Who owns outer space?
..., the Moon and other bodies promise untold fortunes. The Moon, for example, contains metals such as iron, titanium and aluminium. Its surface seemingly has an abundance of water-ice that can be broken down into...
11 January 2016
Space Mining company showcase the first 3D printed object made from asteroid metals
... the print materials was sourced from the Campo Del Cielo impact near Argentina, and is composed of iron, nickel and cobalt – similar materials to refinery grade steel. However, asteroids are also composed of other elements...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... [16,17,18,19]. As this valuation exceeds all money in existence, it is only notional. Yet it may be even higher than this, as some iron-nickel meteorites, and presumably parent bodies, have PGM concentrations more than 10 times those of typical Type...
23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
...by Yutu has a composition that ranges from intermediate in iron to iron-rich. Having Yuto on hand to differentiate between the ... Olivine has now shed light on this conundrum. “Iron-enriched olivine and ilmenite are more likely to occur together...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... have differentiated by melting the accreted rocky material to create an iron-nickel core some 220 km in diameter; and thus it is... in an area in South Africa that was hit by a large iron meteorite billions of years ago, but this source is expected to ...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
...larger phenocrysts of forsteritic olivine, pyroxenes, plagioclase and iron-titanium oxides. In the highland areas, lunar ...Figure 3). Other interstitial minerals include anorthoclase feldspar, iron oxides and zeolite, most likely formed from hydrous...
