In the three years since NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars, the NASA science team has made the daily task of investigating the red planet seem almost mundane.
The giant Chinguetti meteorite that Gaston Ripert reported seeing in 1916 has never been found. A radionuclide analysis by Welten et al (2001) of the 4.5kg mesosiderite that Ripert recovered, […]
Location: Kilbourne Hole, Potrillo Volcanic Field, New Mexico
Volcanoes are a common feature on the surfaces of solid planets within the solar system, resulting from magmatic activity occurring within the planetary crust. On Earth, volcanism is driven primarily […]
Imagine what life could be like on Mars. What would you need to survive in an extreme space environment? High school students in Hawaiʻi, through a partnership with the University […]
Editor’s note: Circular pits – and caves – have been discovered on the Moon and on Mars. They have been suggested as possible locations for establishing base camp infrastructure since […]
Astronauts from five space agencies around the world take part in ESA’s CAVES training course– Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills.
Checking the mineral composition of some weathered rocks with the ASD TerraSpec Halo Mineral Identifier.
ESA spacewalk instructor Hervé Stevenin carries all sorts of instrumentation, from high-tech spectrometers to NASA replicas from the Apollo era. ESA is assessing if the tools are suitable for future […]
NASA Astrobiologist Penelope Boston, explains why caves are interesting to astrobiologists.
