A love for space exploration led Jessica Atkin, a Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences graduate student in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, to produce the first-ever moondust-grown chickpeas.
Space Exploration
Jan 31, 2024
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Even space robots know what "pics or it didn't happen" means: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover provided a panorama of its recently completed sample depot—a big milestone for the mission and humanity's first collection of ...
Planetary Sciences
Feb 14, 2023
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The Chang'e-5 mission touched down in the Mons Rümker region of the northern Oceanus Procellarum of the moon and returned 1.731 kg of lunar regolith.
Planetary Sciences
Dec 28, 2022
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In a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal, a pair of researchers led by The Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute in California investigated the potential origin for the thick regolith deposits on Uranus' ...
Planetary Sciences
Dec 23, 2022
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Lunar Trailblazer, NASA's mission led by Caltech in Pasadena, California to understand lunar water and the moon's water cycle, is one step closer to launching next year. Earlier this month, the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
Planetary Sciences
Dec 22, 2022
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A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with a colleague from Université de Paris, has found that hydrogen concentrations in regolith on the moon are higher in the higher latitudes. They have published ...
It's known that water ice exists below the lunar regolith (broken rock and dust), but scientists don't yet understand whether surface ice frost covers the floors inside these cold craters. To find out, NASA is sending Lunar ...
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2022
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As part of NASA's Artemis program to establish a long-term presence on the moon, it aims to build an Artemis base camp that includes a modern lunar cabin, rover and mobile home. This fixed habitat could potentially be constructed ...
Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2022
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A little Martian dust appears to go a long way. A small amount of simulated crushed Martian rock mixed with a titanium alloy made a stronger, high-performance material in a 3D-printing process that could one day be used on ...
Space Exploration
Sep 6, 2022
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After collecting eight rock-core samples from its first science campaign and completing a record-breaking, 31-Martian-day (or sol) dash across about 3 miles (5 kilometers) of Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover arrived at the ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 19, 2022
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