September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... years ago. Other impacts, on a much smaller scale, happen all the time, providing the tens of thousands of meteorite samples that are studied around the world to learn about the earliest days of our Solar System...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... Museum Vienna, Austria. Ludovic Ferrière, a doctor in geology, is chief curator of rock collections and co-curator of the meteorite collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna. He is also a researcher and has confirmed, together with different...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... by radiation from the Sun or suffered impacts from meteorites Within weeks, Hayabusa2 moved on to the next surface...weathered by radiation from the Sun or suffered impacts from meteorites. This is important for understanding the true composition of ...
20 May 2016
Evidence for massive Tsunamis found on Mars
... Mars. "About 3.4 billion years ago, a big meteorite impact triggered the first tsunami wave. This wave was composed... climate where, in the millions of years between the two meteorite impacts, water turned to ice as temperatures plummeted. "The ...
05 September 2018
Soyuz leak investigations focus on human error
...likely a result of human error rather than a micro-meteorite impact. Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos space ... orbit, was most likely caused from the outside by a tiny meteorite. NASA issued photos of the so-called ‘impact’ but after detailed...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... equipment, where the absence of an atmosphere and magnetic field demands protection from radiation exposure, temperature extremes, meteorite impact and lunar dust. The concept of colonising the Moon predates humankind having even a basic knowledge...
