02 December 2020
China's Chang'e 5 probe successfully lands on the Moon
... underground. The two methods could increase the chance of getting more diverse samples," said Peng. Once the surface mission is complete, the lunar samples will be returned to Earth via the ascender, which will take off and...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
... (Diamond Light Source) to develop X-ray imaging techniques to map rocks and minerals in 3D, and with NASA on lunar samples. He also works with volcano monitoring experts on Tenerife to improve forecasts of volcanic behaviour in real time. Beverly...
02 October 2018
New technique could provide fresh insights into how the Moon was formed
... a clean environment in a special building called the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at the agency’s Johnson Space Center (... of day. Nonetheless, NASA has approved the use of 18 lunar samples to be analysed at the synchrotron facility in the UK, the...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... with the establishment of a lunar outpost at the south lunar pole and, in 2020, a mission to harvest samples from the lunar surface. Moon Express is clear about who they believe will own the samples, stating “the lunar samples brought back to Earth...
17 December 2020
Chang'e 5 probe returns to Earth with Moon rocks
... and then use a plane to transport it to Beijing where it will be opened for technicians to remove the container holding lunar samples, the administration said. The reentry and landing started around 1:00 am; the capsule then separated from the...
April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
...allow this ‘mutual flourishing’. Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt retrieves lunar samples during his December 1972 mission, his spacesuit dirtied by clinging lunar dust. Lunar trustees In New Zealand, the governance of natural features with legal...
