22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
... could be used to explain the observations. Now, after comparing absorption features in the M3 data with those of pure water ice measured in the laboratory, the team, led by researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Ocean and...
27 June 2016
Protoplanetary disc shares similarities with our own Solar System say researchers
... pre-main sequence star to find that around 80 percent of oxygen atoms are locked up in a large reservoir of crystalline water ice – material that is crucial for facilitating the rapid formation of planetesimals, that in turn decreases the time scale...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
..., Science Laboratory and CEU. Lunar resources The recent discovery of interesting resources in lunar polar areas, in particular of water ice, has sparked visions for their utilisation Knowledge about lunar resources is not new: already data from...
April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
...are shadowed areas two billion years old that protect water-ice. No sunlight has ever grazed these frozen pools;...A similar body for the Moon might determine how much of the water-ice deposits or other geological features can be used, or set conditions...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... Mathilde are mainly composed of carbon alongside mineral and ore deposits, and it is on these asteroids that sizeable water ice deposits are expected to be found. Governments go it alone The US government has set out its political position. At the...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... path-finding approaches of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which confirmed the presence of water-ice on the Moon and established a new lightweight approach to project and mission execution that was considerably cheaper...
