She leads a team that will study samples of regolith, or Moon soil, collected in 1972 near the Apollo 17 landing site of Taurus-Littrow Valley on the eastern rim of Mare Serenitatis.
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Regolith
//ˈɹɛɡəlɪθ//
Synonyms for "regolith" (45 found)
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12 translations across 11 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 表土 noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
Finnish
1 entries- regoliitti noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
French
1 entries- régolithe noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
German
1 entries- Regolith noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
Ido
1 entries- regolito noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
Italian
1 entries- regolite noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
Japanese
2 entries- レゴリス noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
- 表土 noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
Polish
1 entries- regolit noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
Portuguese
1 entries- regolito noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
Russian
1 entries- реголи́т noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
Spanish
1 entries- regolito noun (layer of loose rock that constitutes the surface of most land)
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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will also characterize the planet's climate and geology, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first planetary mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.
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The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith, paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
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The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) is scheduled to fire its thrusters for about seven minutes, taking it out of the asteroid’s orbit and setting it on a homeward course.
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