September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
... bacteria, placed in 1.4 cm thick basalt disks fixed on the outer side of the space capsule, was studied in the Meteorite experiment on the Photon-M4 satellite, which performed a 45-day orbital flight and returned a spacecraft landing module to Earth...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... by NASA’s Curiosity rover, October 2016. Iron-nickel meteorite. [10] Bright spots on Egg Rock are from the ChemCam... methods [13,14,15]. Therefore a common, optimised system may extract all meteoritic PGMs. Gold is not a PGM, but is separated with...
13 January 2020
New study shows a split Solar System that kickstarted growth of Jupiter
...Over the years, scientists have discovered that the meteorites can be separated into two distinct classes based on...that if the different isotopic compositions of the various CC meteorites reflect to some degree their formation location, then its ...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... billions of years ago, but this source is expected to be completely exhausted within 50 to 200 years. From the iron meteorites we analyse on Earth, it is estimated that there would be as much as 200 parts per million or more of PGMs on Psyche. Even...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
...in rare cases, fragments reach the surface of Earth (as meteorites). Man-made space objects (MSOs), however, having been ... and local catastrophes. Meteor Crater, the world’s best preserved meteorite impact site on Earth in Northern Arizona, USA. It is...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... simulants are being used to investigate how the surface regolith materials are altered by various processes or interactions. Meteorite bombardment is the most dominant surface process on all airless solar system bodies and understanding how simulant...
