#Regolith

@riannejar.bsky.social

3 days ago

Bioremediation of lunar regolith simulant through mycorrhizal fungi and plant symbioses enables chickpea to seed - Scientific Reports Food sustainability is a significant challenge for long-term space travel. Plants can provide fresh nutrition, reducing reliance on packaged foods. Using Lunar regolith simulant (LRS), we tested a met...

Chickpeas in Lunar soil? [via Nature] 🧪👩‍🔬🌱🌑🚜

"incorporate stable organic amendments to improve the structural properties of regolith and introduce a microbiome."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#lunar #regolith #toxicity #plant #growth

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Jerome Juilleret

@subsolum.bsky.social

1 week ago

📢New paper out:

"A classification framework for mapping lunar soils"

We propose a structured system to classify lunar soils for ISRU and future Moon missions — tested on the Apollo 15 deep core.
👇

🔗 acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Pedology #Soil #ISRU #Regolith #Moon

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Meshbox

@meshbox.bsky.social

1 month ago

#Regolith Mining Robot 3D model for Poser & DAZStudio on #Renderosity bit.ly/3C9MFNZ

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Meshbox

@meshbox.bsky.social

1 month ago

#Regolith Mining Base 3D model for Poser & DAZStudio on #Renderosity bit.ly/3qfeBO3

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Thiard News@F4F

@newsen.bsky.social

1 month ago

Nexus Proud Investment Hosts Successful Real Estate Seminar in Taipei, Taiwan Nexus Proud Investment recently conducted a highly attended real estate seminar in Taipei, aimed at Japanese property investments, attracting 100 investors.

Nexus Proud Investment Hosts Successful Real Estate Seminar in Taipei, Taiwan #Japan #Tokyo #Nexus_Proud #REGOLITH #Z.K_ESTATE

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The Perpetually Curious!

@theprptllycurious8.bsky.social

1 month ago

🌙 The full Moon appears ~40% brighter than expected due to regolith's opposition surge, particles hiding shadows when Sun, Earth, and Moon align.

✨ Alien dust transforms moonlight itself.

✍️ See original post in this thread for the full article exploring regolith mysteries!

#Moon #Regolith #TPC8

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Mashable India

@in.mashable.com.web.brid.gy

2 months ago

First Hotel In Moon To Be Set Up Soon, Costing More Than Rs 90 Crore Per Bed; Here’s How To Reserve A Spot Set Up By GRU Space At Lunar Regolith

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Erik L. Arneson :emacs:

@pymander.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

3 months ago

An Emacs Application Launcher for Regolith I run the Regolith Desktop Environment on my laptop, which I love because it provides a convenient GNOME wrapper and interface for the i3 tiling window manager. Regolith relies on a program called `ilia` for application launching, and sometimes `ilia` gets caught in some kind of CPU-churning state that locks up my whole system. I have not been able to figure out what is causing it, so I (of course) turned to Emacs for a solution. ## Turning to `consult-omni` Armin Darvish has created a powerful Emacs package called `consult-omni`, which provides a wrapper around `consult` for searching through any number of information sources. I believe `consult-omni` was originally intended to query web search engines and document databases, but Darvish has also provided a search mode for your local desktop applications, and can act as an application launcher. Darvish provides an example application launcher in his `consult-omni` YouTube tutorial. The source code is straightforward, but I wanted to tweak it just a little. You can view his original on the project’s wiki on GitHub. You can watch him explain his technique below. After a few tweaks, here is what I came up with. (defun consult-launcher () "A launcher suitable for use from a window manager." (interactive) (let* ((width (floor (* 0.6 (display-pixel-width)))) (height (floor (* 0.6 (display-pixel-height)))) (left (floor (* 0.2 (display-pixel-width)))) (top (floor (* 0.2 (display-pixel-height)))) (params `((name . "omni-launcher") (width . ,(cons 'text-pixels width)) (height . ,(cons 'text-pixels height)) (left . ,left) (top . ,top) (minibuffer . only))) (frame (make-frame params))) (with-selected-frame frame (select-frame-set-input-focus frame) ;; If i3 is running and there is a control socket, let's tell ;; it we are a floating frame. (if (getenv "I3SOCK") (call-process "i3-msg" nil nil nil (format "[id=%s] floating enable" (s-trim (shell-command-to-string "xdotool getactivewindow"))))) (unwind-protect (progn (consult-omni-apps-static ".*" (propertize "> " 'face 'consult-omni-path-face)) nil) (progn (when (frame-live-p frame) (delete-frame frame)) nil))))) I made two changes to get this to work nicely with `i3`. First, I removed the `yequake` dependency. Second, I added a call to `i3-msg` that sets the launcher frame as floating, which makes it much nicer to use. Like Darvish’s version, you can run this from the command line: emacsclient -e '(consult-launcher)' ## Adding an `ilia` fallback Don’t tell all the other Emacs users, but I don’t have Emacs set up to launch automatically when I start my computer and log into X11. I probably should, huh? Also, there are times when I (gasp!) shut down Emacs, usually to restart it or fix something that I have broken. When those times happen, I want to be able to launch applications, so I need a failsafe in case `consult-launcher` isn’t available! To solve this, I created a simple shell wrapper script, which looks like this: #!/bin/bash # Check if Emacs server is running by looking for the server socket # Default server name is "server", but you can change this if needed SERVER_NAME="${EMACS_SERVER_NAME:-server}" SERVER_FILE="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/tmp}/emacs/${SERVER_NAME}" if [ -S "$SERVER_FILE" ]; then # Emacs is running, use emacsclient to launch your application emacsclient -e '(consult-launcher)' else # Emacs is not running, fall back to ilia ilia -p apps fi If you want to use this, the important part is that `SERVER_FILE` points to the socket that your Emacs server uses. Make sure that `emacsclient` and `ilia` are both in a reasonable location so your shell can find them, then bind this command to whatever you usually use to launch `ilia`. By the way, if you are using Regolith’s normal method of launching `ilia`, you can add your shell script to your Regolith configuration pretty easily. Open `$HOME/.config/regolith3/Xresources` in your text editor, and add the line: wm.program.launcher.app: /path/to/your/launcher.sh You can then run `xrdb -override $HOME/.config/regolith3/Xresources` and it should work! Good luck. ## Drawbacks One of the nice things about `ilia` is that it keeps track of applications your run frequently, so they tend to bubble up to the top of its application listing. The Emacs method doesn’t do that. I don’t mind so much, I always end up typing in application names. It is fun to use Emacs as an application launcher, and I hope that it helps me avoid the CPU-churn problem that `ilia` has been experiencing far too often. Have I come up with a clever solution, or a lazy workaround? I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

I wrote up something about an #emacs application launcher that I am using with #Regolith and #i3wm. Enjoy! https://arnesonium.com/2025/11/regolith-emacs-launcher

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Space Botany

@spacebotany.uk.web.brid.gy

4 months ago

Mission Report: 21 October 2025 My Top 10 Stories from the world of space plants and gardening this week include Polish seeds on a suborbital flight, astrobotany in the World’s Largest Analog and fava beans growing in Mars regolith simulant.

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Space Botany

@spacebotany.uk.web.brid.gy

4 months ago

Mission Report: 21 October 2025 My Top 10 Stories from the world of space plants and gardening this week include Polish seeds on a suborbital flight, astrobotany in the World’s Largest Analog and fava beans growing in Mars regolith simulant.

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Space Botany

@spacebotany.uk.web.brid.gy

5 months ago

Mission Report: 14 October 2025 My round-up of stories from the world of space plants and gardening. this week includes Iranian space plants, gypsophytes for Mars, Antarctic regolith and more!

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Space Botany

@spacebotany.uk.web.brid.gy

5 months ago

Mission Report: 14 October 2025 My round-up of stories from the world of space plants and gardening. this week includes Iranian space plants, gypsophytes for Mars, Antarctic regolith and more!

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Space Botany

@spacebotany.uk.web.brid.gy

5 months ago

Mission Report: 14 October 2025 My round-up of stories from the world of space plants and gardening. this week includes Iranian space plants, gypsophytes for Mars, Antarctic regolith and more!

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Space Botany

@spacebotany.uk.web.brid.gy

5 months ago

One Small Steep: Tea Plants Thrive in Lunar Soil UK researchers successfully grew tea plants in simulated lunar soil - but future Martians won't get a homegrown cuppa.

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Space Botany

@spacebotany.uk.web.brid.gy

5 months ago

One Small Steep: Tea Plants Thrive in Lunar Soil UK researchers successfully grew tea plants in simulated lunar soil - but future Martians won't get a homegrown cuppa.

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Jay Wilson

@jayskis.bsky.social

6 months ago

Canada's first lunar rover looks to future space exploration The mission's goal is to find water on the Moon, which could open the door for a sustained human presence there.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

#regolith

The Artemis Accords!

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AlcorNews

@alcornews.bsky.social

7 months ago

« Ils font cuire la Lune à 1 300 degrés » : La Chine transforme le régolithe en briques grâce au Soleil pour bâtir des bases lunaires sans matériaux terrestres - HelloBiz.fr La perspective de construire des structures sur la Lune à partir des matériaux disponibles sur place est en train de devenir réalité grâce à une innovation impressionnante. Des scientifiques chinois o...

La Chine teste la cuisson du régolithe à 1300 °C pour fabriquer sur place les briques de futures bases lunaires. share.google/DMKe9sJpEOCR... #Space #Science #AerospaceEngineering #LunarBase #Regolith

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AlcorNews

@alcornews.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

« Ils font cuire la Lune à 1 300 degrés » : La Chine transforme le régolithe en briques grâce au Soleil pour bâtir des bases lunaires sans matériaux terrestres - HelloBiz.fr La perspective de construire des structures sur la Lune à partir des matériaux disponibles sur place est en train de devenir réalité grâce à une innovation impressionnante. Des scientifiques chinois ont mis au point une machine capable de transformer le sol lunaire en briques solides, en utilisant uniquement l'énergie solaire. Cette avancée pourrait non seulement

La Chine teste la cuisson du régolithe à 1300 °C pour fabriquer sur place les briques de futures bases lunaires. https://share.google/DMKe9sJpEOCRBvrf1 #Space #Science #AerospaceEngineering #LunarBase #Regolith

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Jerome Juilleret

@subsolum.bsky.social

7 months ago

Now fully accessible on the website 😊 #Soil #pedology #regolith #Moon

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Spektrum der Wissenschaft

@spektrum.de

7 months ago

Mondstaub: Rohstoff und Plage für die Raumfahrt Es gibt Ideen, wie sich das scharfkantige Pulver, das die Oberfläche des Mondes bedeckt, zähmen – und sogar nutzen lässt.

🚀 Vom lästigen Staub zum Baustoff der Zukunft: Forschende der TU Berlin wollen scharfkantigen Mondstaub in Ziegelsteine und Solarzellen verwandeln – für den Bau einer Station auf dem Mond #Mondmission #SpaceTech #Regolith #repost

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Spektrum der Wissenschaft

@spektrum.de

7 months ago

Mondstaub: Rohstoff und Plage für die Raumfahrt Es gibt Ideen, wie sich das scharfkantige Pulver, das die Oberfläche des Mondes bedeckt, zähmen – und sogar nutzen lässt.

🚀 Vom lästigen Staub zum Baustoff der Zukunft: Forschende der TU Berlin wollen scharfkantigen Mondstaub in Ziegelsteine und Solarzellen verwandeln – für den Bau einer Station auf dem Mond #Mondmission #SpaceTech #Regolith

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Pure Science

@purescience.news

8 months ago

A Lunar Base Could Start with a Dome over a Crater Made of Regolith When astronauts live on the Moon permanently, they're going to need a safe habitat, ideally made out of local construction material. A new paper suggests that lunar astronauts could cover a 17-meter crater...

A Lunar Base Could Start with a Dome over a Crater Made of Regolith #Science #Space #SpaceExploration #LunarBase #Regolith

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Apodsky

@nasapodsky.bsky.social

8 months ago

Close-up of the Apollo 17 lunar rover's wheel and fender, showing a makeshift repair using maps, clamps, and tape to prevent dust from affecting the rover's operation. The image highlights the challenges of lunar dust and the resourcefulness of the astronauts. The fine, powdery lunar soil is clearly visible.

Astronomy Picture from 28/03/2025

Lunar Dust and Duct Tape

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250328.html

#Apollo17 #LunarDust #MoonExploration #SpaceHistory #NASA #Regolith #Micrometeorites #IngeniousRepair #LunarRover #SpaceExploration

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Astrobiology

@astrobiology.bsky.social

8 months ago

Raman Spectroscopy As A Tool For Assessing Plant Growth In Space And On Lunar Regolith Simulants - Astrobiology Colonization of the Moon and other planets is an aspiration of NASA and may yield important benefits for our civilization.

Raman Spectroscopy As A Tool For Assessing Plant Growth In Space And On Lunar Regolith Simulants
astrobiology.com/2025/06/rama... #astrobiology #regolith #spaceagriculture

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Krspeace

@krspeace.bsky.social

10 months ago

#QP Crescent Moon

#Lunar #Celestial #Regolith #Meteorite #Polynesian #Glyphs #CosmicCarving #AIart #Digitalart #Fanart #Photography #AIArtsky #AI艺术 #Stellar #Astro #AncientFuturism #ZeroAtmosphere #CelestialCode #Archaeology #SpaceHeritage

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Math Easy Solutions

@matheasy.bsky.social

10 months ago

MES Math Q/A 17: What is Lunar Regolith (Moon Dust)? youtube.com/live/P3glFFI...

If you have math related questions, I may have answers.

May 7, 2025 Wednesday at 10:00 AM PST

#math #moonlanding #regolith #technology #science

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Ms. Artificial

@msartificial.bsky.social

10 months ago

Working

#astronaut #moon #regolith #ai #photo

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@johniac.bsky.social

10 months ago

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 25th, 2025 The De In “Decentralization” Stands For Democracy Vol II No 20 365 links Curated New Artificial Leaf Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chem...

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 25th, 2025

bit.ly/stc042525

#LiSA #electrocatalysts #CspZ #structure #"immune response" #trials #"daily cycle" #regolith #protons #hydrogen #AMOC #"warming hole" #tropics "Northern Hemisphere" #"deep aquifers" #karstified #sandstone #"natural replenishment"

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