November 2017
Roving the red planet
...Meridiani Planum bedrock - water flushing through the subsurface concentrated iron into hematite ‘concretions’ (as such features are typically ...that could positively identify such clay minerals. Iron and magnesium-bearing clay minerals were detected ...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
...over has less magnesium, and therefore, proportionally more iron. Individual crystals of olivine erupted in volcanic rocks ...than just how the magma evolved, because magnesium and iron interchange by diffusion within the crystal structure. Diffusion ...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... 40 years. Alternative ‘storeroom’ The Moon and near-Earth asteroids present an alternative ‘storeroom’ containing millions of tons of iron, nickel, cobalt, platinum and other metals. In the last few years alone, astronomical lunar observations have...
24 July 2020
A first of its kind white dwarf merger with a dense compact object discovered by students
...in their research paper. “In the early phases, AT2018kzr was characterised by a hot, blue continuum, with strong Fe [iron] absorption. This unusual combination could be used as a sign that the transient is worth follow-up observations,” Gillanger and...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... before seeking to do it for Earth. A Martian shield, however, would serve a different purpose. An atmosphere for Mars With no iron core the red planet has no natural magnetosphere to allow an atmosphere to remain in place so the solar wind strips...
09 December 2019
Metal-loving microbe prefers eating meteorites than earth rocks
... were fed a different diet of ground-up chalcopyrite, a copper-iron-sulphur mineral. They loved it too, but the growth rate ... microbe’s bodies, and are thought to help catalyse iron oxidation reactions and possibly make their meal more tolerable ...
