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Rocket Cratering in Simulated Lunar and Martian Environments [PDF]

, 2010
With NASA's planned return to the moon and possibly with lunar outposts being formed, repeated landings at the same site will be necessary. Understanding rocket plume interaction with lunar and Martian surfaces is of paramount importance in order to ...
Immer, Christopher, Metzger, Phillip
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Beneficiation of lunar ilmenite [PDF]

One of the most important commodities lacking in the moon is free oxygen which is required for life and used extensively for propellent. Free oxygen, however, can be obtained by liberating it from the oxides and silicates that form the lunar rocks and ...
Ruiz, Joaquin
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Water Recuperation from Regolith at Martian, Lunar & Micro-Gravity during Parabolic Flight

Aerospace
Recent discoveries of potential ice particles and ice-cemented regolith on extraterrestrial bodies like the Moon and Mars have opened new opportunities for developing technologies to extract water, facilitating future space missions and activities on ...
Dario Farina, Hatim Machrafi, Patrick Queeckers, Christophe Minetti, Carlo Saverio Iorio   +4 more
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87th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2025: Contents

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 60, Issue S1, Page 2-29, August 2025.
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Genotype selection and microbial partnerships influence chickpea establishment in lunar regolith simulant

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Sustainable food production is essential for long-duration Lunar missions, driving the development of in situ resource utilization strategies that use lunar regolith (LR) as a growth substrate for food crop cultivation.
Jessica Atkin, Hikari Skabelund, Elizabeth Pierson, Shuyang Zhen, George J. Vandemark, Terry Gentry   +5 more
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Ceramic Material Processing Towards Future Space Habitat: Electric Current-Assisted Sintering of Lunar Regolith Simulant. [PDF]

Materials (Basel), 2020
Phuah XL, Wang H, Zhang B, Cho J, Zhang X, Wang H.   +5 more
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ISRU Soil Mechanics Vacuum Facility: Soil Bin Preparation and Simulant Strength Characterization [PDF]

, 2012
Testing in relevant environments is key to exploration mission hardware development. This is true on both the component level (in early development) and system level (in late development stages).
Kleinhenz, Julie, Wilkinson, Allen
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87th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2025: Abstracts

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 60, Issue S1, Page 30-350, August 2025.
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Constraining Particle Variation in Lunar Regolith for Simulant Design [PDF]

, 2008
Simulants are used by the lunar engineering community to develop and test technologies for In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU), excavation and drilling, and for mitigation of hazards to machinery and human health.
Hoelzer, Hans, Rickman, Doug, Schrader, Christian M., Stoeser, Douglas   +3 more
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Physical, mechanical and thermal properties of vacuum sintered HUST-1 lunar regolith simulant

International Journal of Mining Science and Technology
Establishing a base on the Moon is one of the new goals of human lunar exploration in recent years. Sintered lunar regolith is one of the most potential building materials for lunar bases. The physical, mechanical and thermal properties of sintered lunar
Wenbin Han, Yan Zhou, Lixiong Cai, Cheng Zhou, Lieyun Ding   +4 more
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