...a small carry-on impactor (SCI) to generate an artificial crater to expose subsurface material. In August, the international science team... will strike the asteroid to form an artificial crater, revealing fresh material that has not been weathered...
... analyses of returned samples, the main source of information on lunar water (in the form of ice) in permanently shadowed polar craters was acquired by the neutron spectrometer aboard the Lunar Prospector spacecraft. The impact of the Lunar...
... dissipation and today is at 60 Earth radii. Large planetesimal impacts on the Moon result in magma filling the resulting craters in addition to generating a lunar atmosphere from the resulting outgassing. These volcanic rock regions are the dark...
... hydrogen – and the mission’s intended destination; Shackleton crater. This important impact crater lies at the Moon’s south pole and is of...due to its potential resources. Not only does the crater receive almost perpetual sunlight, making it a useful ...
...the agency’s newest rover, Percy, to Jezero Crater in order to collect samples which scientists hope might contain traces ... basin just north of the Martian equator. Scientists believe the crater was once home to an ancient river delta caused by water...
... relatively rare on the side of the Moon that faces Earth. By using simulations to trace back to potential parent craters, and comparing their ages through comprehensive literature studies, Qian and colleagues show that Harpalus, a 39 kilometer...