19 March 2019
New data from InSight shows a contrasting Mars
At the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in Houston, Texas this week, scientists working on NASA’s InSight mission reveal ...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
...department of the Space Research Institute, in news reported by Russian news site RIA Novosti. “It is best suited for a lunar rover. Along the route we will be able to determine the elemental composition of the surface in a strip about 30 centimetres...
12 June 2020
NASA picks Astrobotic to fly VIPER to the Moon
... and responsibility to be chosen by NASA to deliver this mission of national importance,” said Astrobotic CEO John Thornton. “Astrobotic’s lunar logistics services were created to open a new era on the Moon. Delivering VIPER to look for water, and...
26 October 2020
Scientists detect molecular water and cold ‘water traps’ on the Moon
... by Paul Hayne at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, suggest that approximately 40,000 square kilometres (km2) of the lunar surface has the capacity to trap water and about 60 percent of it can be found in the south. “A majority of cold...
10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
...for any astronauts that find themselves living in proposed lunar bases. There have already been many missions to ...its chemical constituents – Chandrayann-1, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite – but...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
...alternative mechanisms for getting samples back, such as a robotic sample return vehicle delivered to the moon on a Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) lander, may need to be studied as a backup. Not everyone was thrilled this latest development...
