18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
... Mars 2020 rover is the first step in a potential multi-mission campaign to return carefully selected and sealed samples of Martian rocks and soil to Earth," said Geoffrey Yoder, acting associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate...
28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
...optimal performance of the tool by studying various types of samples recovered from extreme environments on Earth in conjunction with ... “Further work with the data from the mine and samples recovered from the mine will allow us to investigate them...
22 February 2019
Success for Hayabusa2 as it touches down on Ryugu
... Ryugu just before 23:00 GMT on 21 February to grab its sample and data analysis from the probe confirms that the sequence of ... a nominal state. This will not be the only sample collection opportunity for Hayabusa2 however as later this year, perhaps...
30 March 2020
Study shows astronaut urine could help build moon bases
... have the lowest compressive strength after 8 freeze-thaw cycles, write the researchers in their paper, the samples also exhibited a relatively high initial compressive strength (13 megapascals) before freeze-thaw cycle which is more practical...
03 April 2020
Newly discovered organisms in ancient solid rock inspire new search for life
... long to reach the ocean floor, then pulled out core samples from 125 metres below the seafloor. The expedition was in ...recalling the first time he saw bacteria inside the undersea rock samples. "These cracks are a very friendly place for life. Clay...
11 December 2020
A US company is aiming to race rovers on the Moon next year
... the US space agency. Nasa is paying the Colorado-based company $1 (£0.74), a sum proposed by Lunar Outpost, to collect a small sample of lunar regolith, which the company will collect with its Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, or MAPP. The...
