It is designed to penetrate 2- to 3-meters depth into the Moon’s rock and dust surface (the lunar regolith) and determine the heat flow as a product of two separate measurements: thermal gradient – ...

When material is extracted from the moon, dust gets kicked up. Without an atmosphere to slow it down, this lunar dust can travel vast distances. That surface material is "space weathered" and ...

No other nation has done this." The Blue Ghost instruments will collect data on the lunar dust environment, drill into the soil below the lander, monitor background X-ray emissions, test whether ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests.

Onboard will be 10 Nasa science experiments, one of which requires the collecting of Moon dust to measure radiation on the lunar surface. Another will observe Earth's magnetic field, also known as ...

Many of the investigations are focused on investigations into lunar regolith, or moon dust. Resilience is taking a very energy-efficient path to the moon and therefore will get there after Blue ...

and during global dust storms." NASA also issued 11 other white papers in its Moon-to-Mars architecture review. "NASA's Architecture Concept Review process is critical to getting us on a path to ...