22 September 2017
OSIRIS-REx makes closest Earth approach today
... satellites will start from October 2018 and last for at least a year. Following its initial analysis, a sample site will be selected and the spacecraft will move into position so that it can collect...
08 June 2018
Curiosity discovers ancient organic molecules on Mars
... survived on the Red Planet. The organic material was unearthed in 3-billion-year-old sedimentary rock samples extracted by Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite and then heated to 500 degrees Celsius to release its molecular...
22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
...their destination of choice, are the proposed Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR) mission or Dragonfly. A launch date ... Ithaca, New York, CAESAR seeks to return a sample from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko to determine its origin ...
13 September 2016
Scientists prove the Moon was created by a vaporised Earth
... Moon. However in 2001, a revelation occurred as Moon rock samples brought back from the Apollo missions in the 1970s were found ... is the amount of heavy potassium isotopes found in lunar samples. The duo’s findings show that Moon rocks are enriched ...
03 October 2016
Martian soil helps boost its atmosphere with noble gases
... its surface. The team behind the discovery have been using the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument on board the rover, or SAM for ...found that some isotopic ratios, when compared with earlier samples, were a bit different than expected. The researchers...
25 September 2017
Boldly going in search of another pale blue dot
... quest.” The Institute is also behind the SCIM mission; Sample Collection to Investigate Mars. As the name suggests, SCIM ...aeroshell to fly to the Red Planet and return the first samples of Martian materials to Earth without the complexity and risk of...
