Articles for Lunar Soil

China tests building Moon base with lunar soil bricks
1 month, 1 week ago

China tests building Moon base with lunar soil bricks

Raw Story  

China is expected to push forward in its quest to build the first lunar base on Friday, launching an in-space experiment to test whether the station's bricks could be made from the Moon's own soil. Brick samples will blast off aboard a cargo rocket heading for China's Tiangong space station, part of Beijing's mission to put humans on the Moon …

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Analysis of Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveals first detailed information about moon’s far side
1 month, 1 week ago

Analysis of Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveals first detailed information about moon’s far side

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Chang’e-6, the first mission to bring back soil from the moon’s far side, collected 1.9 kilograms of lunar soil via a robotic probe in June before returning to Earth, a scientific tour de force that cemented China’s place as one of the world’s top space powers. However, more recent near-side samples collected …

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Analysis of Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveals first detailed information about moon’s far side
1 month, 1 week ago

Analysis of Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveals first detailed information about moon’s far side

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Chang’e-6, the first mission to bring back soil from the moon’s far side, collected 1.9 kilograms of lunar soil via a robotic probe in June before returning to Earth, a scientific tour de force that cemented China’s place as one of the world’s top space powers. However, more recent near-side samples collected …

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Another high-water mark for Chinese scientists
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Another high-water mark for Chinese scientists

China Daily  

Lunar soil samples collected by the Chang'e 5 probe are displayed at the University of Hong Kong. Although quite a number of self-media mentioned the incident with headlines suggesting "Chinese scientists have discovered large quantities of water on the moon", the fact is, as shown by the original academic study, that domestic researchers have proposed a way of providing the …

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Another high-water mark for Chinese scientists
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Another high-water mark for Chinese scientists

China Daily  

Lunar soil samples collected by the Chang'e 5 probe are displayed at the University of Hong Kong. Although quite a number of self-media mentioned the incident with headlines suggesting "Chinese scientists have discovered large quantities of water on the moon", the fact is, as shown by the original academic study, that domestic researchers have proposed a way of providing the …

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Solid, or liquid, foundation for building a lunar base
4 months ago

Solid, or liquid, foundation for building a lunar base

China Daily  

File photo: Photo provided by the China National Space Administration shows Chang'e 5 probe gathering samples on the moon on Dec 2, 2020. The real story, as published first as an academic essay in The Innovation, is that domestic researchers have found a high percentage of hydrogen in lunar soil and proposed a new possible way of getting large quantities …

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Researchers find method to produce water on moon
4 months ago

Researchers find method to produce water on moon

China Daily  

Chinese researchers have developed a new method that could produce massive amounts of water through the reaction between lunar materials and hydrogen found in surrounding lunar soil. However, the natural water content in lunar minerals is extremely low, ranging from 0.0001 percent to 0.02 percent, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, making …

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Researchers find method to produce water on moon
4 months ago

Researchers find method to produce water on moon

China Daily  

Chinese researchers have developed a new method that could produce massive amounts of water through the reaction between lunar materials and hydrogen found in surrounding lunar soil. However, the natural water content in lunar minerals is extremely low, ranging from 0.0001 percent to 0.02 percent, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, making …

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Chinese scientists discover novel method to produce water from lunar soil
4 months ago

Chinese scientists discover novel method to produce water from lunar soil

China Daily  

In a breakthrough discovery, researchers from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and collaborating institutions have developed a novel technique to produce water from lunar soil, potentially revolutionizing the sustainability of human missions to the Moon, according to Tide News. These minerals, which have nanoscale pores that store hydrogen atoms, react with …

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Solid, or liquid, foundation for building a lunar base
4 months ago

Solid, or liquid, foundation for building a lunar base

China Daily  

File photo: Photo provided by the China National Space Administration shows Chang'e 5 probe gathering samples on the moon on Dec 2, 2020. The real story, as published first as an academic essay in The Innovation, is that domestic researchers have found a high percentage of hydrogen in lunar soil and proposed a new possible way of getting large quantities …

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Water moves moon closer as home away from home
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Water moves moon closer as home away from home

China Daily  

Chinese scientists' discovery of a hydrated mineral containing approximately 41 percent water in terms of weight in lunar soil samples returned by Chang'e 5 mission marks a giant step in mankind's understanding of the moon while signifying a bright future for mankind's march toward the Earth's only natural satellite. Scientists had found no water in the lunar soil samples collected …

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Water moves moon closer as home away from home
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Water moves moon closer as home away from home

China Daily  

Chinese scientists' discovery of a hydrated mineral containing approximately 41 percent water in terms of weight in lunar soil samples returned by Chang'e 5 mission marks a giant step in mankind's understanding of the moon while signifying a bright future for mankind's march toward the Earth's only natural satellite. Scientists had found no water in the lunar soil samples collected …

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Scientists find graphene flakes in lunar soil sample
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Scientists find graphene flakes in lunar soil sample

China Daily  

Chinese scientists have discovered the presence of a special form of carbon in lunar soil retrieved by China's Chang'e 5 probe, offering new evidence about the geological evolution of the moon and providing clues for the future utilization of the substance. The research, published in the journal National Science Review last week, revealed the existence of naturally formed few-layer graphene, …

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Scientists show how to turn lunar soil fertile for agriculture
1 year, 1 month ago

Scientists show how to turn lunar soil fertile for agriculture

The Hindu  

If humankind is ever to establish long-term bases on the moon, there will be a need for a regular source of food. Researchers said on Thursday they have found a way to turn inhospitable lunar soil fertile by introducing bacteria that enhance the availability of phosphorus, an important plant nutrient. "The importance of these findings is that we may be …

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HK, Macao add thrust to nation's space exploration
1 year, 1 month ago

HK, Macao add thrust to nation's space exploration

China Daily  

Lunar soil samples collected by the Chang'e 5 probe are displayed at the University of Hong Kong. At the start of this year, Qian, a postdoctoral fellow from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, or HKU, applied to access lunar soil samples from the China National Space Administration. In 2004, China officially launched the Chang'e …

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HK, Macao add thrust to nation's space exploration
1 year, 1 month ago

HK, Macao add thrust to nation's space exploration

China Daily  

Lunar soil samples collected by the Chang'e 5 probe are displayed at the University of Hong Kong. At the start of this year, Qian, a postdoctoral fellow from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, or HKU, applied to access lunar soil samples from the China National Space Administration. In 2004, China officially launched the Chang'e …

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Chandrayaan-3: Pragyan rover encounters 4-metre crater on moon, retraces path
1 year, 3 months ago

Chandrayaan-3: Pragyan rover encounters 4-metre crater on moon, retraces path

Hindustan Times  

Indian Space Research Organisation on Monday said that the Chandrayaan-3's Pragyaan rover came across a 4-meter diameter crater positioned 3 meters ahead of its location on the lunar surface yesterday. Read here: ISRO sets date for launch of Aditya-L1 solar mission: All you need to know The space agency while sharing the images on X, said, “On August 27, 2023, …

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Scientists grow plants in soil from Moon for first time
2 years, 7 months ago

Scientists grow plants in soil from Moon for first time

Deccan Chronicle  

Washington: Scientists have for the first time grown plants in lunar soil brought back to Earth by astronauts in the Apollo missions, a step towards producing food and oxygen on the Moon or during future space missions. As points of comparison, the researchers also planted Arabidopsis in JSC-1A, a terrestrial substance that mimics real lunar soil, as well as simulated …

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Scientists grow plant in lunar soil, raise hopes of growing plants on Moon
2 years, 7 months ago

Scientists grow plant in lunar soil, raise hopes of growing plants on Moon

Hindustan Times  

That's one small pot of soil, one giant leap for man's knowledge of space agriculture: scientists have for the first time grown plants in lunar soil brought back by astronauts in the Apollo program. For the first time ever, scientists have grown plants in lunar soil. The ground-breaking experiment, detailed in the journal Communications Biology on Thursday, has given researchers …

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Scientists grow plants in lunar dirt. Next stop: The moon
2 years, 7 months ago

Scientists grow plants in lunar dirt. Next stop: The moon

LA Times  

A researcher harvests a thale cress plant growing in lunar soil at a laboratory at the University of Florida in Gainesville. For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts. Researchers had no idea if anything would sprout in the harsh moon dirt and wanted to see if the next generation …

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NDTV spreads fake news about space bricks progress by Indian scientists
4 years, 4 months ago

NDTV spreads fake news about space bricks progress by Indian scientists

Op India  

Propagandists at the NDTV were called out once again, this time, by an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru for spreading deliberately mischievous misinformation to cast aspersions on the efforts made by Indian scientists. In the headline of its report, NDTV claimed that Indian scientists were using urine to make space bricks when the scientists were, in …

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Indian Scientists Use Lunar Soil and Bacteria to Make Bricks for Buildings on Moon
4 years, 4 months ago

Indian Scientists Use Lunar Soil and Bacteria to Make Bricks for Buildings on Moon

News 18  

Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Space Research Organisation has developed a sustainable process for making brick-like structures on the moon, according to IISc. It exploits lunar soil, and uses bacteria and guar beans to consolidate the soil into possible load-bearing structures, Bengaluru-based IISc said in a statement. "It is really exciting because it brings two different fields biology …

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