supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42241109);the Guoqiang Institute,Tsinghua University(2021GQG1001);the New Cornerstone Science Foundation through the XPLORER PRIZE.
Lunar habitat construction is crucial for successful lunar exploration missions.Due to the limitations of transportation conditions,extensive global research has been conducted on lunar in situ material processing tec...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFB3711300 and 2021YFF0500300);the Strategic Research and Consulting Project of the Chinese Academy of Engineering(2023-XZ-90 and 2023-JB-09-10);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFF0500300).
The construction of extraterrestrial bases has become a new goal in the active exploration of deep space.Among the construction techniques,in situ resource-based construction is one of the most promising because of it...
support from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) for providing the necessary facility and IITB seed grant.
The cryosphere component provides the most reliable and insightful indications of any planet’s climate dynamics.Using data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars(CRISM),we develop a novel appro...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.52106276 and 52130601);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.WK2090000038);the Joint research center for multi-energy complementation and conversion of USTC。
Powering a moon base,especially keeping it warm during the long lunar night,is a big challenge.This paper introduces a photovoltaic/thermal(PV/T)system incorporating regolith thermal storage to solve the challenge of ...
supported by the B-Type Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB 41000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41773052,41973058,and 42003054);the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.ZDBS-SSWJSC007-10);the Pre-Research Project on Civil Aerospace Technologies funded by the CNSA(Grant No.D020201);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2020M680155).
Forty-five years after the Apollo and Luna missions, China’s Chang’e-5 (CE-5) mission collected ∼1.73 kg of new lunar materials from one ofthe youngest basalt units on the Moon. The CE-5 lunar samples provide oppor...
The Artemis Program, for constructing the lunar base, is in progress. How to design and construct architectural and civil engineering structures in the lunar environment has become an important issue. The lunar surfac...
funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2021YFA0716100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41973060,42173044,42241146 and 42273007);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB 41000000);the preresearch Project on Civil Aerospace Technologies(Grant Nos.D020202 and D020302);the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.ZDBS-SSW-JSC007)。
Lunar breccias provide crucial insights into the lithological diversity,shock processing and evolution of the lunar crust.Here,we report a unique regolith breccia(CE5C0000YJYX070GP,hereafter CE5C)returned from the Cha...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U22A20166,52104141,12172230 and U2013603);the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province(No.2019ZT08G315);the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(No.2023A1515012654).
Interparticle adhesion force has a controlling effect on the physical and mechanical properties of planetary regolith and rocks.The current research on the adhesion force of planetary regolith and rock particles has b...
supported by the Strategic Priority Program B of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB41010205);the Civil Aerospace Pre-Research Project(Grant No.D020302);the Strategic Priority Program A of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.XDA17010403 and XDB41010304);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42030205 and 41874079).
No samples from the Moon’s far side have been returned to Earth.Thus,lunar meteorite study can deepen the understanding of the Moon’s far side(if we can identify which lunar meteorites came from the Moon’s far side...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2019YFA0706500)。
Small bodies in the solar system are known to be covered by a layer of loose unconsolidated soil composed of grains ranging from dusty sands to rugged boulders.Various geophysical processes have modified these regolit...