01 February 2019
First private spacecraft gearing up for Moon landing
... to the moon,” said Ido Anteby, CEO of SpaceIL. “Inserting the disks into the spacecraft, which is a real “time capsule,” indicates the spacecraft’s readiness to blast off from the launch site in a few weeks. SpaceIL’s crews and...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
...as civilization, engage with the world. While we do not consider the MoonArk to be an intentional time capsule, it does parallel that tradition in that time capsules are typically gestures of more importance to their planners than the future audience...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
...imagine, but we now think we have found in the PSRs a time capsule of the history of the volatiles in our solar system. To understand ...unlikely to capture an obvious, perfect record of the ‘time stratigraphy’ of the materials, but they will reveal ...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
...place to store what will effectively be a set of time capsules, which could survive around a billion years. The principal... place to store what will effectively be a set of time capsules, which could survive around a billion years. The extreme cold...
21 February 2019
Hayabusa2 starts descent towards Ryugu
... been cast on where Earth got its oceans from. Scientists are therefore hoping that this c-type time capsule that has remained relatively untouched since the formation of the Solar System can help quantify whether...
09 June 2021
Meteorites impacting Earth mainly come from a very small region of space, new study says
... they lay in the rock record, they can serve as tiny time capsules as they can be dated back to when they fell to Earth... that meteorites and small asteroids delivered to Earth in deep time are not primarily linked to the sequence of asteroid family-...
