regoliths

Scarab will use the NORCAT drill to cut one-meter square cores (also known as regoliths) and transfer those cores to another onboard device for chopping into smaller samples.

Crave: The gadget blog 2008

More asteromo aftershocks: these microscopic slivers of the moon -- extracted from a report by the Lunar Regolith Materials Workshop, organized by NASA “to establish requirements for the production and distribution of terrestrial analogs of lunar regoliths.”

Archive 2006-02-01 2006

More asteromo aftershocks: these microscopic slivers of the moon -- extracted from a report by the Lunar Regolith Materials Workshop, organized by NASA “to establish requirements for the production and distribution of terrestrial analogs of lunar regoliths.”

Lunar regolith 2006

Either way, once an initial supply of oxygen is available, and with a temperate climate, a thickened carbon dioxide atmosphere to supply pressure and greatly reduce the space radiation dose, and a good deal of water in circulation, plants that have been genetically engineered to tolerate Martian regoliths and to perform photosynthesis at high efficiency could be released together with their bacterial symbiotes.

The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

Either way, once an initial supply of oxygen is available, and with a temperate climate, a thickened carbon dioxide atmosphere to supply pressure and greatly reduce the space radiation dose, and a good deal of water in circulation, plants that have been genetically engineered to tolerate Martian regoliths and to perform photosynthesis at high efficiency could be released together with their bacterial symbiotes.

The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

Characterizing this roll-off would provide information on the properties of the ring particle regoliths and how they vary within the rings.

SpaceRef Top Stories 2008