Sentences with phrase «regolith from»

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The first people to walk the moon required a shield against fine regolith (dust as sharp as glass); protection from wild temperature swings from sun to shade; the flexibility to install gear and pick up moon rocks; and the ability to last for hours away from a spacecraft.

Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corp. in Pasadena, California: «Shotgun,» a secondary payload that would deploy multiple small kinetic impactors from the Asteroid Retrieval Vehicle to characterize asteroid regolith.

They've found that one of the biggest challenges to lunar settlement — as vexing as new rocketry or radiation — is how to live with regolith that covers virtually the entire lunar surface from a depth of7 feet to perhaps 100 feet or more.

These ice deposits would likely require a thin insulating blanket, perhaps a layer of fine - grained surface material, or regolith, to keep it from sublimating away.

A handful of regolith consists of bits of stone, minerals, particles of glass created by the heat from the tiny impacts, and accretions of glass, minerals, and stone welded together.

Scientists called the dust lunar regolith, from the Greek rhegos for «blanket» and lithos for «stone.»

The disadvantage is that it obtains oxygen almost exclusively from iron oxides, which make up just about 10 percent of the regolith.

Scientists believe that these ions, which the SELENE spacecraft (better known as Kaguya) detected, drifted over geologic time from the outer layers of Earth's atmosphere and became embedded in the moon's regolith, a loose top layer of soil and rock.

The engineering solution may be for NeMO to use solar - electric propulsion to turn around and fly back to Earth hauling an entire separate spacecraft that carries the goods from Mars, he says, or it could tote a special - purpose entry vehicle that's topped off with Mars regolith and rock for drop - off here at home.

«Looking for microbe «fingerprints» on simulated Martian rocks: Archaeon can oxidize and metabolize metals from Mars - like regolith materials.»

To satisfy microbial nutritional fitness, the research team uses mineral mixtures that mimic the Martian regolith composition from different locations and historical periods of Mars: «JSC 1A» is mainly composed of palagonite — a rock that was created by lava; «P - MRS» is rich in hydrated phyllosilicates; the sulfate containing «S - MRS,» emerging from acidic times on Mars and the highly porous «MRS07 / 52» that consists of silicate and iron compounds and simulates sediments of the Martian surface.

Living up to all the ambitions of its official name, OSIRIS - REx would explore the origins of asteroids and thus the solar system itself, connect spectral colors observable from Earth to specific minerals on the asteroid, identify potential resources such as water for rocket fuel, help evaluate the threat of asteroids to Earth, and return some regolith (asteroid soil) for detailed analysis.

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.

Last September, an Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., with a 4,650 - pound space probe in its nose known as the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer — or just OSIRIS - REx.

An example of a long - duration robotic asteroid sample return mission is the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security — Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS - REx) mission managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, which will investigate and return a sample from a NEA named Bennu.

From previous lunar research, they estimated that the top millimeter of regolith would be buried by meteoroid impacts after about a million years, so it would be too deep to be subject to electric charging during solar storms.

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 rRegolith Oxygen Challenge, has teams competing to see who can build a lightweight device to extract breathable oxygen from the lunar soil, called regolithregolith.

Lunar regolith is made from solid moon rock that has been ground down over eons by meteorite impacts.

The twin Viking landers of 1976 were NASA's first life detection mission, and although the results from the experiments failed to detect life in the Martian regolith, and resulted in a long period with fewer Mars missions, it was not the end of the fascination that the Astrobiology science community had for the red planet.

Imaging of small - scale features on 433 Eros from NEAR: Evidence for a complex regolith J. Veverka, P. C. Thomas, M. Robinson, S. Murchie, C. Chapman, M. Bell, A. Harch, W. J. Merline, J. F. Bell III, B. Bussey, B. Carcich, A. Cheng, B. Clark, D. Domingue, D. Dunham, R. Farquhar, M. J. Gaffey, E. Hawkins, N. Izenberg, J. Joseph, R. Kirk, H. Li, P. Lucey, M. Malin, L. McFadden, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen Jr., C. Peterson, L. Prockter, J. Warren, D. Wellnitz, B. G. Williams, and D. K. Yeomans Science 292, 484 — 488, doi: 10.1126 / science.1058651, 20 April 2001.

He imagines that future Mars colonies might have an automated regolith collection vehicle that scoops up the loose material and compacts it into individual bricks as it travels — like a combine harvester creating bales of hay from a field.

[11] Life forms would not only be protected from the high surface temperatures and ultraviolet radiation, but also from wind storms and regolith dust.

The fused regolith creates a permanent shield that protects the explorers from the extreme conditions on Mars.

Image: A NASA Mars settlement by Team Gamma that could be 3D printed from regolith by pre-programmed, semi-autonomous robots.