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Articles tagged: regolith

  • B-type asteroid, Bennu, Earth Gravity Assist, OSIRIS-REx, TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) 22 September 2017 OSIRIS-REx makes closest Earth approach today

    ... towards asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer will pass the Earth around 17,000 kilometres above us in order to perform a manoeuvre known as an Earth...

    • B-type asteroid
    • Bennu
    • Earth Gravity Assist
    • OSIRIS-REx
    • TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism)
  • Apollo 14, granite, Moon rocks, quartz, zircon 28 January 2019 Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon

    ... end up on our lunar neighbour eons ago? After developing techniques for locating impactor fragments in the lunar regolith, the international team, who also includes research Scientist Jeremy Bellucci, concluded that the rock was...

    • Apollo 14
    • granite
    • Moon rocks
    • quartz
    • zircon
  • lunar water cycle, Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), solar wind, water molecules 11 March 2019 LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon

    .... The sparse layer of water molecules is more common at higher latitudes and temporarily sticks to the layer of loose regolith that coats the lunar surface, but once the temperature begins to hot up around local noon time...

    • lunar water cycle
    • Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument
    • NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
    • solar wind
    • water molecules
  • Beresheet, Google Lunar XPRIZE, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), moon exploration, SpaceIL 12 April 2019 Beresheet spacecraft crash lands on the Moon

    ... metres to go, Mission control lost communications with Beresheet and its attempt at a soft landing on the dusty grey regolith were thwarted. "We had a failure in the spacecraft; we unfortunately have not managed to land successfully," Opher Doron...

    • Beresheet
    • Google Lunar XPRIZE
    • Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)
    • moon exploration
    • SpaceIL
  • Archaean, M. sedula, Metallosphaera sedula, meteorites, prokaryote 09 December 2019 Metal-loving microbe prefers eating meteorites than earth rocks

    ... tolerant of heavy metals, M. sedula has already been experimented on in the lab, where scientists have grown it on Martian regolith simulants - material that looks and feels like ground-down rocks on Mars, but isn’t actually the...

    • Archaean
    • M. sedula
    • Metallosphaera sedula
    • meteorites
    • prokaryote
  • dust devils, Gamma Ray Spectrometer chemical mapping, InSIght heat probe (HP3), InSight seismometer (SEIS), NASA InSight mission 24 February 2020 First results from InSight reveal a seismically active Mars

    ... a picture of what the uppermost layers of the Martian crust are alike. According to their paper, Mars is encased by a regolith layer just a few metres in depth, under which a much deeper crustal layer extends down to 8 and 11 kilometres...

    • dust devils
    • Gamma Ray Spectrometer chemical mapping
    • InSIght heat probe (HP3)
    • InSight seismometer (SEIS)
    • NASA InSight mission
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