February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... strategies for simulant development activities. The SACF began full operations in the final quarter of 2018, and samples are available for loan to support relevant planetary science and engineering projects including testing of rover/instrument...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... the robotic precursor missions that will precede it, will eventually return samples of these materials to Earth, where they can be studied in... story that we could never have learned otherwise. Samples from other worlds are ‘the gifts that keep ...
01 November 2021
Curiosity finds organic molecules in Mars sand dune
... and several nitrogen-bearing molecules say scientists who have analysed the sample as part of a ‘wet chemistry’ experiment. A number of... of transforming straight into gases when the rock samples are heated, the molecules can decompose into simpler...
25 November 2020
Chang'e 5 is on its way to the Moon
...ground application systems and is responsible for the reception, processing, and storage management of scientific data and samples. The China Lunar Exploration Project is a major national science and technology special landmark project defined in the...
21 October 2020
OSIRIS-REx successfully touches asteroid Bennu
... first indication of whether we were successful in collecting a sample will come on October 21 when we downlink the back-... of material.” If the team is confident that enough of the sample was collected, we will make the decision to stow the material ...
03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
.... This complex-sounding, state-of-the-art spacecraft is equipped with seven instruments and devices to study, then sample this potentially hazardous object. Bennu is possibly a fragment of a once much larger object from the Polana family...
