11 December 2020
A US company is aiming to race rovers on the Moon next year
... the US space 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...
15 March 2021
Engineers propose a "Lunar Ark" to preserve millions of species' DNA on the Moon
... (on this planet at least) in the form of the Svalbard Seedbank; a structure in Norway that holds hundreds of thousands of seed samples to protect against accidental loss of biodiversity. The team are confident however that with the right research...
08 October 2021
Images confirm "once and for all" Jezero crater was an ancient Martian lake
... per hour (4 to 20 mph). “These results also have an impact on the strategy for the selection of rocks for sampling,” said Sanjeev Gupta, a Perseverance scientist from Imperial College, London, and a co-author of the paper. “The finest...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...the chirality of amino acids, had it gotten some soil samples, which unfortunately it didn’t. Early results On Earth, all... to top it. The next step has to go towards a sample return mission because this will then allow the study of cometary material...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... centrifuge before being placed in a freezer. We have three freezers at minus 94C where we keep the samples until they can hitch a ride back home. Cristoforetti in Cupola with the famous cup of espresso Sometimes we ...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... around the Sun. The initial idea was even more ambitious - to land on the surface, collect a material sample and bring it back to Earth To achieve this the spacecraft had to reach the orbital energy of the comet...
