Sentences with phrase «lunar material»

The report stresses the importance of maintaining stricter guidelines for the release of lunar materials to researchers, and more meticulous inventory procedures for their storage and return.

Our third expedition will bring back samples of lunar dust and rocks that everyone can own, providing scientists with a new source of lunar materials for research, and making these treasures from the Moon available to collectors and commercial purposes.

Lunar material kicked up by the LCROSS mission contained at least a few bucketfuls of water, NASA announced on Friday.

Magnetized lunar material toted back during the Apollo missions established that the moon at some point had a magnetic field.

Now might be the best time to study unexamined caches of lunar material from the Apollo missions

«But over time the making money part really dwindled, and it's become a mission,» a way to change the global standard of living with ubiquitous energy and access to resources such as raw minerals from asteroids, helium - 3 from the moon, or oxygen, water and other lunar materials for space - or Mars - based habitats.

The report stresses the importance of stricter guidelines for the release of lunar materials to researchers, and more meticulous inventory procedures

The impact excavated a 20 - metre - wide crater in the floor of Cabeus, kicking up plumes of lunar material.

«Maybe it is a sign of the times that some scientific researchers and educational organizations that were loaned samples and then lost them would no longer recognize the rarity and historical significance of the lunar material,» Pearlman said.

Lava flows three billion or four billion years ago, for instance, flooded lunar plains and filled craters there, whereas large impacts excavated vast amounts of lunar material that fell to the surface, burying or obscuring nearby craters.

He and colleagues are still analyzing the data from ultraviolet, visual, and infrared spectroscopy to measure the chemical composition of the lunar material.

Thankfully, Cernan and Schmitt, a trained geologist, collected 110 kilograms of lunar material — the largest - ever haul of moon rocks and soil — before heading for Earth.

Junjun Zhang et al., «The Proto - Earth as a Significant Source of Lunar Material,» Nature Geoscience, Vol.