23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
...are unlike those returned by the Apollo and Luna sample return missions. Since the termination of these two ...either a high or low to very low titanium content. No samples with intermediate values were found. Conversely, basalts at the Chang'e-3 ...
14 February 2018
Martian meteorite to be used as target practice
... were blasted off Mars' surface millions of years ago. These meteorites aren't as unique as the geologically perse samples 2020 will collect. But they're still scientifically interesting -- and perfect for target practice. "We're studying things...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “Getting samples from this unique area will revolutionize how we think...Jezero Crater’s ancient lake-delta system offers many promising sampling targets of at least five different kinds of rock,...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... subsystem using gas chromatograph and/or mass spectrometer sensor technologies. Volatile evolution from material in prepared doped sample tubes will enable verification of the design approaches planned for RP. In summary, the RP15 build of the...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... clear about who they believe will own the samples, stating “the lunar samples brought back to Earth will be the only privately...landed on the far side of the Moon. Chang’e 5 will return samples from the Moon and by the time Chang’e 8 launches in 2027...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... prebiotic compounds. JAXA’s current Hayabusa2 mission at Ryugu and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx at Bennu will return precious samples of these two enormous carbonaceous chondrites, allowing us to study how these important materials formed in space, and how...
