{"id":20017,"date":"2022-09-28T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T08:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=20017"},"modified":"2023-06-28T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T08:02:09","slug":"the-potential-of-sintered-regolith-for-solar-energy-harvesting-and-thermal-energy-storage-promising-results-for-in-situ-resource-utilization-in-future-lunar-and-planetary-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/?p=20017","title":{"rendered":"The potential of sintered regolith for solar energy harvesting and thermal energy storage: promising results for in-situ resource utilization in future lunar and planetary missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To satisfy the essential needs, including energy requirements, for human and robotic space explorations on planetary objects like Moon, Mars and asteroids, the proper exploitation of resources available in-situ represents a crucial issue.<\/p>\n<p>Along this line, the present work, a collaboration between University of Cagliari, CNR-INO and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcetri.inaf.it\/en\/\">INAF-Astrophysical Observatory of Arcetri<\/a>, taking a lunar regolith simulant as a case-study, assessed the potential of sintered regolith for solar energy harvesting and thermal energy storage within an ISRU perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is published on <a href=\"https:\/\/authors.elsevier.com\/a\/1flU0LWHF-ubH\">Acta Astronautica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/authors.elsevier.com\/a\/1flU0LWHF-ubH\">Roberta Licheri, Roberto Orr\u00f9, Elisa Sani, Aldo Dell\u2019Oro, Giacomo Cao<br \/>\n<em>Spark plasma sintering and optical characterization of lunar regolith simulant<\/em><br \/>\nActa Astronautica, vol. 201 (2022), pages 164\u2013171<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.actaastro.2022.09.016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To satisfy the essential needs, including energy requirements, for human and robotic space explorations on planetary objects like Moon, Mars and asteroids, the proper exploitation of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":397,"featured_media":20022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-researchfocus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20017"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20037,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20017\/revisions\/20037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ino.cnr.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}