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spacedecentral / Coral

Coral is an open source robotic space mission, designed to perform in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) using lunar regolith as feedstock.
https://spacedecentral.net/coral
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Resource Characterization #21

Closed Engineer1119 closed 5 years ago

Engineer1119 commented 6 years ago

How will the mining equipment be able to characterize the material it extracts? For example, in a given scoop of loose regolith (if that´s what we are mining), how will we determine: What kinds of resources are present? In what chemical forms are they present? In what physical forms are they present? How are they distributed across the surface?

Engineer1119 commented 6 years ago

Here is a partial database of material properties of interest

timallard commented 6 years ago

For elemental iron I've only found reference to "microscopic" particles no density/volume figures yet on mare soils.

jrcgarry commented 6 years ago
My understanding is that its thought to be present (primarily) as a nanophase, condensed from meteoritic impact processes. Page 3: http://www.isruinfo.com/docs/the_lunar_dust_problem_-_from_liability_to_asset.pdf
Suzibianco commented 5 years ago

[Closing this issue as we migrate to a new phase in Coral and new process of how we document issues.]