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Chang’e 5 touched down on the Moon in December 2020, where it scooped up a sample of the lunar regolith and returned it to Earth a few weeks later, marking the first successful lunar retrieval mission since 1976. Analysis turned up traces of water and the youngest known Moon rocks so far.
Rolls-Royce has received an additional £4.8 million (US$6.2 million) in funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) to develop key technology for a nuclear micro-reactor that could one day power lunar bases and spacecraft propulsion.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Rolls-Royce gets $6M to develop its ambitious nuclear space reactor
If you’ve wondered where future Moon explorers will live, it may be in natural caves deep beneath the lunar crust. Radar data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter confirms that giant lava tubes lead to tunnels large enough to house entire bases.Con… Continue reading Massive lunar cavern: Prime real estate for an underground Moon base
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from Gizmodo: A team of researchers think they’ve discovered a cave on the Moon in radar images of the lunar surface, which they posit could be a future site for an established human presence on our … Continue reading Radar Images Suggest There’s a Tunnel On the Moon
Scientists have developed what could be a much quicker and easier technique for astronauts to make building-construction bricks out of lunar soil. The secret lies in heating that moon dust, then sticking it in an aerospace-grade microwave oven.Continue… Continue reading New microwave process could let astronauts make bricks out of moon dust
“Russia has finally admitted that American astronauts did, in fact, land on the moon,” reports Newsweek:
Head of Russian Space Corporation Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, accepted the truth of the U.S. putting a man on the moon in an address to the State Dum… Continue reading Russia’s Space Chief Finally Admits US Landed on Moon
There have been a couple of high-profile solar eclipses lately, but like us, you probably missed the news of the one that passed over Munich in 2019. And every day …read more Continue reading Enjoy Totality Every Day With This Personal Eclipse Generator
A somewhat scorched Chang’e-6 return craft landed in Inner Mongolia yesterday, bringing with it the first rock and dust samples from the far side of the Moon – and hopes of unlocking some lunar secrets.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Chin… Continue reading China first to haul back rocks from the far side of the Moon
When I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. This same sun-and-a-handful-of-planets scheme repeated itself …read more Continue reading The Solar System is Weirder Than You Think
“The first European Space Agency instrument to land on the Moon has detected the presence of negative ions on the lunar surface produced through interactions with the solar wind,” according to a statement from the agency, collecting over three hours of… Continue reading First Detection of Negative Ions on the Moon, Far-Side Soil Samples Headed to Earth