The Spirit rover on Mars has identified haematite at a location half way around the planet to where its twin buggy Opportunity found the same mineral. Haematite is normally formed in the presence of ...

Measuring the kinetics of water oxidation on the haematite surface when it exposed to sunlight. Courtesy: C Mesa, Imperial College London An enzyme called photosystem II (PSII) in plants oxidizes ...

Scientists have discovered that the Moon is rusting due to oxygen particles originating from Earth. These particles travel through space and interact with iron-rich minerals on the lunar surface, ...

Physicists at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK have spotted signatures of magnetic monopoles and other unusual magnetic structures in haematite, a naturally occurring ...

Bizarre! Moon is rusting without water, oxygen. Read on The scientists recently discovered rust on the airless Moon. The detection of haematite on the lunar surface has surprised scientists. Haematite ...

If correct, the microfossils, thought to have formed between 3.77bn and 4.28bn years ago, offer the oldest direct evidence of and insight into life on Earth Scientists say they have found the world’s ...

Figure 2: Raman spectra collected from vein-fill minerals, the matrix, and a comparison between the matrix and a previously published Raman spectrum. Figure 3: Raman spectra and images demonstrating ...

Researchers have now analyzed the optoelectronic properties of rust (haematite) and other metal oxides in unprecedented detail. Their results show that the maximum achievable efficiency of haematite ...

Haematite, the iron oxide mineral, has been discovered at high latitudes on the moon, where the surface and interior is almost entirely devoid of oxygen. Iron is highly reactive with oxygen, and forms ...

In 2004, NASA’s Mars exploration rover ‘Opportunity’ found several small spheres on the planet, informally named Martian blueberries. Opportunity’s mini spectrometers studied the mineralogy and noted ...