The Regolith Desktop is a productivity-focused Linux distribution that combines i3, Say, and GNOME to create the fast, keyboard-driven workflow of a tiling window manager, while infusing it with a ...

The amount of pore space in most unweathered granite is too small to support a plant-based ecosystem. But porosity grows as intact rock interacts with surface waters beneath the soil. You have ...

The enhanced model accommodates the various properties of Martian regolith, or the loose deposits of solid rock that comprise Martian soil. Mirai Kobayashi says current models fail to account for ...

Mirai Kobayashi says current models fail to account for the fact that laboratory experiments have demonstrated that the water-holding capacity of the regolith is strongly influenced by its ...

“We’ve had to improve how the machine works to handle the jagged, abrasive texture of the regolith,” said White to BBC. The company’s tests in a vacuum chamber simulated lunar pressures ...

The company says it has had to improve how the machine works over time so that it can better cope with the extremely jagged, abrasive texture of the regolith itself. “It gets everywhere ...