31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
...Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover will also scoop up some regolith, take a picture of it, and send the image back to... the mission are to study the composition of the polar regolith, and to study the plasma and dust components of the...
19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
... Sample Acquisition, Morphology Filtering, and Probing of Lunar Regolith, will be the first robotic arm on the surface...-to-be-named lander and will be used to acquire samples of lunar regolith. The arm is a flight spare from the Mars Exploration Rover...
23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
... “live off the land,” using elements of another world’s environment, also known as in-situ resource utilization. “It’s taking regolith, the substance you find on the ground, and putting it through a processing plant, making it into a large structure...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... come from? One idea is to mobilise the CO2 ice stored in the Martian polar caps and in the regolith (the Martian soil). But the amount of CO2 stored in these reservoirs is probably only a few hundred millibars...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
... is a modular 3D-printed Mars habitat using a novel construction technique called ‘lava-casting’. The habitat is made from regolith, a readily available surface material found on Mars, and uses the abundant energy resource of the sun to construct...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... the Moon ‘day’ (250F) and very frigid temperatures (-380F) during a Moon ‘night’. Moon dust, called regolith, will also be a serious hazard for astronauts and their equipment. The Moon does, however, promise large...
