Sentences with phrase «from lunar soil»

Another Centennial Challenge, the Moon Regolith Oxygen Challenge, has teams competing to see who can build a lightweight device to extract breathable oxygen from the lunar soil, called regolith.

Of the many ways to make oxygen from lunar soil, Clark has chosen hydrogen reduction.

Not exact matches

In research that may prove useful to future lunar explorers, scientists from Brown University have created the first quantitative map of water and its chemical building blocks trapped in the uppermost portion of the Moon's soil.

They have explained how energetic particles penetrating lunar soil can create molecular hydrogen from water ice.

Schultz thought that when small comets slam into the Moon's surface — as they occasionally do — the coma may scour away loose soil from the surface, not unlike the gas from the lunar modules.

Another piece of evidence that this oxygen came from Earth was how far the ions penetrated into the lunar soil, the scientists said.

«Our new finding is a direct link that ions from Earth's atmosphere are transported to the moon,» where they could remain in the lunar soils for billions of years, Terada says.

The lunar soil's oxygen content has three components: One is rich in oxygen - 16, and that is from the solar wind.

Scientists from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and other international collaborators have proposed a system of mirrors, processed lunar soil and a heat engine to provide energy to vehicles and crew during the lunar night.

Based on the present preliminary data, the researchers estimate that anywhere from 11 to 330 million tons of frozen water are mixed in the lunar soil, or regolith.

But scientists working on a way to harvest oxygen from the iron oxide in lunar soil for future moon bases realized that they happened on a better way to make steel here on Earth.

Findings from the LCROSS mission's controlled impact into the moon reveal a complex brew in lunar soil

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- In research that may prove useful to future lunar explorers, scientists from Brown University have created the first quantitative map of water and its chemical building blocks trapped in the uppermost portion of the Moon's soil.

76 The isotope ratios of these elements in lunar soil correspond not to the solar wind but to what is found on Earth77 — suggesting again that they came from Earth.