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These Microbes May Help Future Martians and Moon People Mine Metals - The New York Times
Space colonists, like people on Earth, will need what are known as rare earth elements, which are critical to modern technologies. These 17 elements, with daunting names like yttrium, lanthanum, neodymium and gadolinium, are sparsely distributed in the Earth's crust. Without the rare earths, we wouldn't have certain lasers, metallic alloys and powerful magnets that are used in cellphones and electric cars.
But mining them on Earth today is an arduous process. It requires crushing tons of ore and then extracting smidgens of these metals using chemicals that leave behind rivers of toxic waste water.
A vintage NASA moon rocket body is officially back in Earth orbit … for now | Space
A relic of the early days of spaceflight has likely come back to pay a brief visit to its planet of origin, according to months of observations of a near-Earth object dubbed 2020 SO .
2020 SO entered what scientists call Earth's Hill sphere, where Earth's gravity governs how objects behave, on Nov. 8, according to a NASA statement . Scientists say that the object will make two leisurely loops around Earth before slipping away to resume its path around the sun in March.
Astronaut Charlie Duke talks walking on the moon, the future of space travel | wwltv.com
Saturday evening it will lift off with a crew of four astronauts from the same pad that launched the Apollo missions in the late 60s and early 70s.
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When your travels have taken you to the Moon and back, literally, where do you travel for leisure? Well Apollo 16 astronaut Brigadier General Charlie Duke meets with friend Ken Stage in Sportsman's Paradise.
"He likes to fish. I like to fish in Barataria Bay and this Joe's Landing is really a place to push out from. So here we are," Duke said.
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Bacteria could help extract minerals from rocks on Mars and Moon, study says
Experiments performed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) suggest that bacteria can extract useful materials from rocks on Mars and the Moon.
For the study, matchbox-sized mining devices called biomining reactors were developed by scientists at the University of Edinburgh over a 10-year period. These were sent to the ISS last year.
The devices contained small pieces of basalt — a common rock on Moon and Mars — submerged in bacterial solution. After three weeks, the researchers found that bacteria could enhance the removal of rare earth elements from basalt in lunar and Martian landscapes by up to around 400 per cent.
The Perils and Promise of Dust on the Moon | NASA
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NASA's Artemis Missions to Set Up Base Camp on the Moon | KQED
Science fiction has long imagined possibilities of human adventure on the moon, envisioning lunar expeditions, bases, and even cities in the decades leading up to the first Apollo landings. Now, NASA is taking steps to reboot that adventure. The Artemis missions will send men and women to the moon to establish a moon base and test out a long-term lunar residency.
But this is only the beginning of an expanding human presence on the moon. Unlike the fleeting there-and-back-again trips of the Apollo missions half a century ago, NASA’s new engagement with the moon will include a permanent lunar space station, numerous and ever-longer excursions to the moon’s surface, and ultimately partially self-sustaining habitations for astronauts .
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