January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
...an atmosphere. It is hard to 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 how this occurred we have to start at the beginning. The lunar magnetosphere protecting...
27 March 2020
Mercury's crust could have had episodic habitable conditions, new study says
...and which could have facilitated the upward release of buried volatiles,” meaning the Caloris impact could have still played a..., conclude the team. Over the years though, these volatiles have either dehydrated, been lost to space or chemically ...
10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
...’s permanently shadowed regions that haven’t seen sunlight in perhaps a billion years or more, to show if and how surface volatiles vary as a function of lunar time. Aside from their size advantage, CubeSats are playing an increasingly larger role...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... addition, comet bombardment would have delivered water and other ‘volatiles’ in the form of ice, even after the solid ... and water. MAVEN’s quest The MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission was motivated by these questions to propose a ...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... Planet. In fact, the MOM team will coordinate with the scientists behind NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission (MAVEN) mission, due to arrive in Mars orbit around the same time. Whereas MAVEN will...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
As NASA gets ready to announce tomorrow (Thursday) who will deliver it's new water-hunting mobile robot, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), to the South Pole of the Moon, a new study could give the ...
