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Microbial Endolithic Community at Meteor Crater
Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.Abstract Postimpact recovery and evolution in response to climate changes produced a modern ecosystem at Meteor Crater dominated by a grassland and woodland of piñon and juniper, which has been used to evaluate floral and megafaunal consequences of impact cratering during the Phanerozoic Eon of complex life.
David A. Kring, Charles S. Cockell
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The Planetary Science JournalAdsorption is a key mechanism governing water vapor diffusion in lunar regolith. To investigate this process, we conducted experiments under simulated lunar conditions—Knudsen diffusion conditions—using three soil types with varying water vapor ...
Yasheng Li +4 more
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Anhydrous minerals in asteroid Bennu: Evidence for well‐preserved primordial components
Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.Abstract Aqueously altered carbonaceous astromaterials are dominated by secondary minerals, but a minor fraction of primary, anhydrous silicates and oxides escape alteration, offering insight into the original composition of asteroid parent bodies. We report the mineralogy, petrology, mineral chemistry, and oxygen isotopes of anhydrous minerals—50 ...
S. S. Russell +23 more
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The Composition and Stratigraphy of the Chang’e-6 Landing Mare
The Planetary Science JournalChina’s Chang’e-6 (CE-6) mission returned lunar samples from the southern mare in the Apollo basin formed in the prominent South Pole–Aitken basin. The basic geological context of the landing mare has been well resolved.
Pei Ma +7 more
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The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 114
Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.Abstract Meteoritical Bulletin 114 contains the 1944 meteorites approved by the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society in 2025. It includes 15 observed falls, 1336 ordinary chondrites, 213 HED, 106 carbonaceous chondrites (including 8 ungrouped), 86 lunar meteorites, 39 ureilites, 28 iron meteorites (2 ungrouped), 24 martian meteorites, 24 ...
Jérôme Gattacceca +12 more
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Possible Formation Mechanism of Lunar Hematite
Magnetochemistry, 2023 Hematite, a ferric mineral with diagnostic features in the visible and infrared spectral range, has recently been discovered in the polar regions of the Moon by the Chandrayaan-1 Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3).
Yue Fu +10 more
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Scientific Preparations for Lunar Exploration with the European Lunar Lander
, 2012 This paper discusses the scientific objectives for the ESA Lunar Lander Mission, which emphasise human exploration preparatory science and introduces the model scientific payload considered as part of the on-going mission studies, in advance of a formal ...
Arnold +56 more
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A review of volatiles in the Martian interior [PDF]
, 2016 Multiple observations from missions to Mars have revealed compelling evidence for a volatile-rich Martian crust. A leading theory contends that eruption of basaltic magmas was the ultimate mechanism of transfer of volatiles from the mantle toward the ...
Baratoux, David +10 more
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Terrestrial Analogs to Titan for Geophysical Research
Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 64, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract Saturn's moon Titan exhibits remarkable parallels to the Earth in many geophysical and geological processes not found elsewhere in the solar system at the present day. These include a nitrogen atmosphere with a condensible gas—methane—replacing the Earth's water, leading to an active meteorology with rainfall and surface manifestations ...
Conor A. Nixon +21 more
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The Astrophysical Journal LettersLunar igneous activities, including intrusive magmatism and extrusive volcanism, and their products contain significant information about the lunar interior and its thermal state. Their distribution is asymmetrical on the nearside and farside, reflecting
Yuqi Qian +8 more
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