‘… any material within 2 m of the Earth’s surface that is in contact with the atmosphere, excluding living organisms, areas with continuous ice not covered by other material, and water bodies deeper than 2 m.’ This definition includes ‘continuous rock, paved urban soils, soils of indust...
This combination of contamination control and knowledge will maximize the science produced by analysis of the OSIRIS-REx sample. Unlike meteorites, the sample will come from a known, well-characterized source and will be collected and transported to Earth to keep it pristine from terrestrial ...
Konkoly Thege Miklos Astronomical Institute, Research Center for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Ákos Kereszturi Planetary Science Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Henrik Hargitai Corresponding author Correspondence to...
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The BIOMEX experiment is aimed at exposing extremophiles and biomolecules to space and Martian-like conditions in low Earth orbit, the latter being simulated in one of the trays of the ESA EXPOSE-R2 facility containing a simulated Martian atmosphere. After ground-based simulations, the detectability...
This is particularly true for deposits enriched in dysprosium (Dy) and terbium (Tb), the high value magnet heavy rare earth elements. In addition to the producing ionic clay deposits in China and Myanmar, economic clay hosted REE mineralisation has now been discovered in Brazil, Chile, Uganda,...
2020, Planetary and Space Science Citation Excerpt : Since it is currently a nascent period for lunar ISRU technology development, with small robotic demonstrator missions planned within the next decade, it is concluded that continuous excavators seem more promising in the short term. By taking many...
Konkoly Thege Miklos Astronomical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Ákos Kereszturi Copyright information © 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York About this entry Cite this entry Küppers, M., Pain, C., Kereszturi, Á., Hargitai, H. (20...
Although regolith binders could be produced on Earth (ex situ) and delivered to the colonies, if binders could be produced in situ using resources available onsite (so-called in situ resource utilization, ISRU), this could provide a significant reduction in payload mass and mission cost [2]. ...
(Geological Science) the layer of loose material covering the bedrock of the earth and moon, etc, comprising soil, sand, rock fragments, volcanic ash, glacial drift, etc [C20: from Greekrhēgoscovering, blanket +lithosstone] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 201...