Thailand enters planet database
published : 5 Aug 2021 at 04:00
Thailand’s first lunar soil replica has made its way to the Planetary Simulant Database, the only comprehensive catalogue of past and present regolith clones.
Maintained by the Colorado School of Mines, the digital archive keeps a record of planetary simulants from many countries, including the US, the UK, Europe, Canada, China and Korea. Replicas include those from the Moon, Mars, asteroids and comets. The catalogue added the Thailand Lunar Simulant, called TLS-01, along with China’s to its…
