August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
.... Shielding against SPE radiation, due to its relatively lower energy, can be achieved with existing technology. Aluminium or regolith (Martian soil) could be used to protect habitats on the Martian surface; the use of caves as habitats that reach...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
...domes are covered with a layer of 3D-printed lunar regolith by robots to help protect the occupants against space ...a 1.5 tonne building block has been printed using simulated lunar regolith. Up in orbit, 3D printers for polymers are already present...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... Cockell at the University of Edinburgh provided evidence showing that perchlorate salts, which are widely found in Martian regolith and are toxic to the growth of plants, under conditions of low temperature increase the activity of the enzyme...
24 March 2016
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launched
...first space-based observations of meteors entering Earth's atmosphere); the Strata-I experiment (exploring regolith properties in microgravity and regolith interaction with spacecraft and spacesuit materials); the Gecko Gripper study (testing a gecko...
03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
... officially arrive today at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, is the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security – Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx for short. This complex-sounding, state-of-the-art spacecraft is equipped with seven...
16 January 2019
China unveils future space plans
... mission whose goal is to land in the Mons Rumker region of Oceanus Procellarum, and return a 2 kilogram sample of lunar regolith, possibly from as deep as 2 metres. It is reported that the probe will carry on board, a Panoramic Camera (PCAM), Lunar...
