28 January 2019
Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon
... from that of every other zircon grain ever analysed in lunar samples, and remarkably similar to that of zircons found ...on our lunar neighbour eons ago? After developing techniques for locating impactor fragments in the lunar regolith, the ...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
...large quantities of water, either in ice or mixed with lunar regolith, could be available for human explorers to make use of. ... the importance of the Moon’s South Pole for establishing lunar bases, NASA had already earmarked this region as the...
07 October 2020
UK-based Spacebit secures second mission to the Moon in 2021
...higher chances of landing on the moon and conducting robotic prospecting and characterization of resources available in the lunar regolith - one of Spacebit’s key focus areas,” Spacebit says. “Intuitive Machines was founded to support both government...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
...experiment preparation areas. The testbed will comprise a lunar regolith simulant sourced from the local Eifel region volcanic... to address the need within the EU to provide a lunar analogue facility that can be readily made available to research ...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... and overwhelming relief of all concerned. One of the experiments the astronauts left behind on the dusty lunar regolith was the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment (LLRE). The LLRE is made of quartz corner reflectors similar to bicycle reflectors and...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
...using the Scorpion’s Serpent engines and a specialised hydrogen and oxygen lunar lander using in situ oxygen produced from lunar regolith. These could reduce the cost of reaching the lunar surface by a third, to a level comparable to the current cost...
