03 October 2016
Martian soil helps boost its atmosphere with noble gases
...during the Viking mission and from analyses of Martian meteorites and has given the team data to work from...the first complete in situ benchmark against which to compare meteorite measurements." Using mass spectrometry to analyse chemistry in the ...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
...ocean. However our planet also bears the pock-marked scars of meteorites slamming into the ground and when these strike an ocean, such... the rim of the crater collapses inward after the meteorite smashes into the ocean. Water rushing back into crater...
02 March 2020
Method for sealing Soyuz leak patented by Russian rocket firm
...(0.08 inch) cavity appeared not to be the result of a tiny meteorite strike, but had the hallmark of a deliberate hole drilled by someone...or not. Whatever the cause, whether man-made or meteorite, RSC Energia, the prime developer and contractor of the...
16 March 2020
Porous nature of Ryugu suggests formation from fluffy particles, new study says
... ago. Occasionally, fragments of this type of asteroid find themselves on Earth as carbonaceous chondritic meteorites; at least that is where these type of meteorites are thought to originate from, but as they tend not to survive entry through Earth...
16 October 2020
SWRI tests "Clockwork Starfish" for sampling asteroids
...'s New Shepard programme, involved placing two Clockwork Starfish inside two separate vacuum sealed containers, with meteorite-like materials. A small camera placed in each container then recorded how the technology interacts with the...
09 April 2021
Around 5,200 tons of extraterrestrial dust falls to Earth each year
...from larger pieces that are chipped off when meteorites plummeting through our skies, which accounts for ...the grains, whereby a higher density and lower porosity suggest a meteoritic origin and a lower density and higher porosity suggest a cometary ...
