{"id":21433,"date":"2022-10-17T12:48:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/rocks-of-lanzarote-similar-to-those-of-the-moon"},"modified":"2022-10-17T13:03:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T13:03:52","slug":"rocks-of-lanzarote-similar-to-those-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/rocks-of-lanzarote-similar-to-those-of-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Rocks of Lanzarote similar to those of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Spanish scientists compared rocks collected on the Moon with those from a region of the island of Lanzarote and concluded that they are analogous, opening the door to investigations into food production and construction on Earth\u2019s natural satellite.<\/p>\n

In the investigation, the conclusions of which were published on the website \u201cScientific Reports\u201d, of the scientific journal Nature, three areas of Lanzarote, in the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands, were selected \u201cwith the aim of verifying which of them had the greatest number of characteristics in common with the surface and Pen\u0303as de Tao was considered to be potentially analogous to the place where the Apollo 14 spacecraft of the US space agency (NASA) landed on the Moon in 1971, researcher Fernando Alberquilla Marti\u0301nez explained to the Lusa agency.<\/p>\n

The analogy between the rocks of Lanzarote and the samples collected by NASA astronauts on the Moon was established with techniques of \u201cpetrophysical characterization\u201d \u2013 tests of hardness, roughness, color, porosity, saturation, etc.<\/p>\n

\u2013 and \u201cgeochemical and mineralogical characterization\u201d , to evaluate in detail the composition of the rocks, according to Fernando Alberquilla Marti\u0301nez, one of the four authors of the article published on this investigation, a project that is part of a collaboration between the Complutense University of Madrid and the Instituto de Geocie\u0302ncias of Spain (CSIC- MCU).<\/p>\n

Once the analogy between the lunar and Lanzarote rocks was defined, \u201cit was decided to develop the first Spanish lunar regolith simulator\u201d, that is, a simulator of sand or decomposed rocks of the Moon, to proceed now with studies of \u201cplanetary geology\u201d.<\/p>\n

(study of objects with solid surfaces in the universe) and \u201castrobiology\u201d (related to the study of life in the universe).<\/p>\n

The Spanish regolith (moon rock designation) simulator, called \u201cLZS-1\u201d, is not the first, as others have already been made in China and by NASA, but this is \u201cthe first time that a simulator has been developed in which carried out petrophysics characterization tests viewing the Lanzarote basalt from the point of view of a resource for the habitability of the Moon\u2019s surface\u201d, explained Fernando Alberquilla Marti\u0301nez, who responded to Lusa\u2019s questions in writing.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mauritius. Spanish scientists compared rocks collected on the Moon with those from a region of the island of Lanzarote and concluded that they are analogous, opening the door to investigations into food production and construction on Earth\u2019s natural satellite. 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