April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...Gerard O’Neill first proposed in the 1970s. Apollo’s rock samples proved the Moon could contain everything that would be needed ...Having been to the lunar surface and returned with rock samples revealing its mineral potential, it was Armstrong’s view ...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... feasible and cost-effective to deliver rare-earth metal samples direct from the lunar surface to Earth. This means... has a market value of about $30,000/kg, the value of delivered samples would be only $11.34 million, which is only 2.8 percent of the...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... of the Perseverance and Zhurong rovers as a part of the Mars20 and Tianwen-1 missions respectively, will take samples of Martian regolith and explore surface geology. Perseverance will look for signs of extant or present life; is it conceivable...
18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
... Mars 2020 rover is the first step in a potential multi-mission campaign to return carefully selected and sealed samples of Martian rocks and soil to Earth," said Geoffrey Yoder, acting associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate...
28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
...optimal performance of the tool by studying various types of samples recovered from extreme environments on Earth in conjunction with ... “Further work with the data from the mine and samples recovered from the mine will allow us to investigate them...
22 February 2019
Success for Hayabusa2 as it touches down on Ryugu
... Ryugu just before 23:00 GMT on 21 February to grab its sample and data analysis from the probe confirms that the sequence of ... a nominal state. This will not be the only sample collection opportunity for Hayabusa2 however as later this year, perhaps...
