11 December 2020
A US company is aiming to race rovers on the Moon next year
... agency. Nasa is paying the Colorado-based company $1 (£0.74), a sum proposed by Lunar Outpost, to collect a small sample of lunar regolith, which the company will collect with its Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, or MAPP. The samples will...
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
... elsewhere in the universe would certainly be extraordinary.” Perseverance is also kitted out with a laser to zap rock and regolith. Called SuperCam the instrument will study the composition of the broken rock and dust by analysing the...
26 April 2021
Microbes could potentially live beneath Mars' surface, new study suggests
..., are present in adequate abundances to support Earth-like habitats. Meteorites sourced from martian crustal rocks called regolith breccias that are more than 3.6 billion years old, were found to have the highest potential for...
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
... of JPL. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is to be the first of its type to cache Martian rock and regolith ready for collection by a later mission to the Red Planet. The rover is carrying 43 sample tubes and by the...
03 December 2019
Found! The remains of India's Vikram Lander are identified
... (confirmed or likely). Blue dots locate disturbed soil, likely where small bits of the spacecraft churned up the regolith. "S" indicates debris identified by Shanmuga Subramanian. This portion of the Narrow Angle Camera mosaic was made from...
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...
