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Turning earthworms into moonworms: Earthworms colonization of lunar regolith as a bioengineering approach supporting future crop growth in space

Heliyon, 2023
The earthworms beneficial effects on soils may be promising to improve lunar soil fertility, enabling the use of local substrates for space farming. Herein, we investigated the effects of the lunar regolith simulant (LHS-1) at different concentrations in
Donato Romano, Adriano Di Giovanni, Chiara Pucciariello, Cesare Stefanini   +3 more
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Oxychlorine Species on Mars: A Review

Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 63, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract Oxychlorine species (mainly perchlorate and chlorate) have been identified at multiple locations on the surface of Mars by both orbiter and in situ rovers. They have also been found in martian meteorites. Cl‐isotopes in meteoritic minerals suggest that an oxychlorine cycle has been operating on the martian surface for the last ∼4 billion years.
Kaushik Mitra
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Morphological and Spectral Characterization of Lunar Regolith Breakdown due to Water Ice

The Planetary Science Journal
Remote sensing observations of the Moon suggest that the lunar polar regolith environment is affected by several natural processes that may cause the regolith in these regions to become more porous and fine particulate.
A. Shackelford, K. L. Donaldson Hanna, M. Horton, D. Noce   +3 more
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Preparation of geopolymer for in-situ pavement construction on the moon utilizing minimal additives and human urine in lunar regolith simulant

Frontiers in Materials
Constructing lunar pavements is of great significance for improving the transportation efficiency of materials and personnel transfer at lunar bases. Utilizing lunar regolith for the in-situ preparation of geopolymer is an effective means of supplying ...
Lichong Chen, Tao Wang, Feng Li, Siqi Zhou   +3 more
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The Influence of Space Weathering on the Far‐Ultraviolet Reflectance of Apollo‐Era Soils

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 130, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract Building on our previous studies of the far‐ultraviolet (FUV) reflectance of Apollo soil 10084 and lunar soil simulants JSC‐1A and LMS‐1 (Gimar et al., 2022, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022je007508; Raut et al., 2018, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018je005567), we present new FUV results for Apollo soils 68501 and 71061. Heavily weathered soils (68501,
C. J. Gimar, U. Raut, A. Stevanovic, L. C. Mayorga, S. Protopapa, B. D. Byron, K. D. Retherford, T. K. Greathouse, M. J. Poston, J. T. S. Cahill, D. N. Qasim   +10 more
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Planetary Soil Simulant Characterisation: NU-LHT-2M Study Case to Support Oxygen Extraction Lab Tests with a Low-Temperature Carbothermal Process

Aerospace
Since the landing on the lunar surface, the lunar regolith has begun to interact in different ways with landed elements, such as the wheels of a rover, astronaut suits, drills, and plants for extracting oxygen or manufacturing objects.
Giovanni Zanotti, Ivan Troisi, Alice Dottori, Michèle Roberta Lavagna   +3 more
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A Comprehensive Review of Additive Manufacturing for Space Applications: Materials, Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions

Advanced Engineering Materials, Volume 27, Issue 22, November 2025.
Additive manufacturing (AM) transforms space hardware by enabling lightweight, high‐performance, and on‐demand production. This review outlines AM processes—powder bed fusion (PBF), directed energy deposition (DED), binder jetting (BJ), sheet lamination (SL), and material extrusion (ME)—applied to propulsion, satellite structures, and thermal devices ...
Stelios K. Georgantzinos, Eleni Papadopoulou, Grigorios Kostopoulos, Stefanos Voulgaris, Alexandra Tseni, Panteleimon Bakalis, Maria Gkara, Chara C. Mitropoulou, Nikos D. Lagaros   +8 more
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Simulation of the Lunar Regolith and Lunar-Penetrating Radar Data Processing

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2018
Lunar-penetrating radar (LPR) was conducted by the “Yutu” rover of China's Chang-E 3 lunar mission to study the shallow subsurface of the Moon. Both regolith modeling and numerical simulation can provide a reliable reference for data processing of the Moon.
Ling Zhang, Zhaofa Zeng, Jing Li, Jingyi Lin, Yingsa Hu, Xuegang Wang, Xiaodong Sun   +6 more
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Experimental Evaluation of Lunar Regolith Settlement Caused by Ice Extraction

Aerospace
Water resources are essential to human exploration in deep space or the establishment of long-term lunar habitation. Ice discovered on the Moon may be useful in future missions to the lunar surface, necessitating the consideration of in situ resource ...
Zheng Gong, Nicholas Barnett, Jangguen Lee, Hyunwoo Jin, Byunghyun Ryu, Taeyoung Ko, Joung Oh, Andrew Dempster, Serkan Saydam   +8 more
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A Study Demonstrating That Using Gravitational Offset to Prepare Extraterrestrial Mobility Missions Is Misleading

Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 42, Issue 7, Page 3772-3794, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Recently, there has been a surge of international interest in extraterrestrial exploration targeting the Moon, Mars, the moons of Mars, and various asteroids. This contribution discusses how current state‐of‐the‐art Earth‐based testing for designing rovers and landers for these missions currently leads to overly optimistic conclusions about ...
Wei Hu, Pei Li, Arno Rogg, Alexander Schepelmann, Samuel Chandler, Ken Kamrin, Dan Negrut   +6 more
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