October 2016
Project MOONWALK
...), exploration and scouting of the landing site, soil sampling and exobiology in-situ analysis, as well as mastering ...rover carried a set of newly developed manual sampling tools, a sample storage unit and a portable RAMAN spectrometer. Because...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... for extraterrestrial life in the solar system. Let’s imagine that a research laboratory, selected to make preliminary examinations of samples from Mars, finds that a number of its researchers begin developing flu-like symptoms. It is late winter and...
28 January 2019
Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon
...by an international team of scientists who had been studying a lunar sample returned by the Apollo 14 astronauts from their mission 48 years ago..., the surface of the Moon is big and the sample collection returned so far is small, therefore there is ...
02 October 2018
New technique could provide fresh insights into how the Moon was formed
...common green mineral – olivine – found in the Moon rock samples to study them in greater detail than ever before. Olivine ...a clean environment in a special building called the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at the agency’s Johnson Space Center (JSC)...
21 February 2020
MMX mission gets green light to land on Phobos
..., while DLR (Germany) is to design the rover, which could explore the surface of Phobos. In addition to the sampling device and sample return capsule, JAXA’s contributions include a LIDAR laser altimeter, a dust monitor and a mass spectrum analyser...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... IceMole could then plan manoeuvres to avoid detected hazards, as well as approach detected sub-glacial water pockets to sample Safe and accurate landing The south polar terrain of Enceladus is a very geologically active environment. Plume fallout...
