02 December 2020
China's Chang'e 5 probe successfully lands on the Moon
...around 14 Earth days. Chang'e-5 is the world's first moon-sample mission in more than 40 years, and Chinese space engineers ..."We designed two methods for the spacecraft to collect samples. One is to sample the lunar surface, and the other is to drill...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
...distiller, became the first Scotch producer to send whisky samples to the ISS to investigate whether microgravity impacts the ... Director of Distilling and Whisky Creation, with the sample of Ardbeg distillate from space. The experiment demonstrated ...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... the information gain recommends that we collect as many samples as possible within the allowed budget. Encouragingly, this ... of life) is limited by the number of planets in the sample, but the second (photosynthesis) is limited by the number of...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...truly representative of these noble gases and their isotopic ratios, a sample of the atmosphere has to be acquired where the atmosphere is ...final mapping orbit at the Moon. Cupid’s Arrow would sample the atmosphere using a compact, yet very precise, ...
February 2023
The scientific basis for lunar helium-3 production
...Thus, the electromagnetic effect was experimentally confirmed for both samples: i.e., the transformation of the micro- and macrostructure ...a container with capsules containing microbes and algae sampled from lifeless places on Earth on the outside ...
21 May 2021
New study suggests organic salts are likely present on Mars
... different gases at specific temperatures; so by looking at which temperatures release which gases, scientists can infer what the sample is made of. Copying how SAM analyses matter on Mars but performing the task in a laboratory here on Earth, Lewis...
