Geotechnical Research for spAce enVironments using an Innovative Tower Experiment

Project Information

GRAVITE

Grant agreement ID: 101087060

DOI

10.3030/101087060

EC signature date 25 October 2023

Start date 1 July 2024

End date 30 June 2029

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 294 664,00

EU contribution

€ 2 294 664,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L'AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPACE
France

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Publications

Conference proceedings (9)

Centralizing Lunar Regolith Properties: An Open-Source Database for Geomechanical Data

Author(s): Léonie Gasteiner, Naomi Murdoch, Olfa D'Angelo
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EPSC2026-529

Seismic velocity characterisation of planetary simulants

Author(s): Alice Amsili, Axel Peignon, Ludovic Margerin, Naomi Murdoch
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EPSC2026-193

The GRAVITE tower: Design updates for the new variable gravity facility

Author(s): Arnaud Wilhelm, Naomi Murdoch
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EPSC-DPS2025-1355

Rheological Lunar Regolith Simulants

Author(s): Léonie Gasteiner,Alyona Glazyrina,Olfa D'Angelo,Naomi Murdoch
Published in: 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC)
Publisher: 76th International Astronautical Federatuib

Modelling the fate of sesquinary DART ejecta debris impacting on Didymos

Author(s): Jeanne Bigot, Naomi Murdoch, Alexandra Rousseau, Alessandro Rossi, Krzysztof Langner, Francesco Marzari, Olivier Barnouin, Daniel Scheeres
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EPSC2026-96

Deriving frictional properties of regolith during small body landing

Author(s): Jeanne Bigot, Naomi Murdoch
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EPSC-DPS2025-690

Strength and Stability of Regoliths in Low Confining Stress

Author(s): Naomi Murdoch
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EPSC2026-311

Grain-Scale Morphology and Initial Aspect Ratio Effect on Granular Avalanches

Author(s): Yuna Horie, Cecily Sunday, Seiji Sugita, Naomi Murdoch
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EPSC2026-796

Sinking or bouncing in low gravity environments?

Author(s): Alexia Duchêne, Jeanne Bigot, Michał Stankiewicz, Sarah Dghais, Colas Robin, Arnaud Wilhelm, Jonathan E. Kollmer, Naomi Murdoch
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EPSC-DPS2025-113

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Guidelines for Estimating the 3D Size and Shape of Boulders from Planetary Surface Images

Author(s): Alexia Duchêne, Naomi Murdoch, Colas Q. Robin, Olivier S. Barnouin, Ronald L. Ballouz, David Mimoun, Alex X. Jerves, T. Dylan Mikesell
Published in: The Planetary Science Journal, Issue 7, 2026, ISSN 2632-3338
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/AE5D37

The Influence of Internal Structure on Physical Outcomes of the 2029 Apophis Close Approach with Earth

Author(s): Joseph V. DeMartini, Derek C. Richardson, Naomi Murdoch, Raphaël F. Garcia, Nicholas C. Schmerr, Petr Scheirich, Ronald-L. Ballouz, Adriana Daca
Published in: The Planetary Science Journal, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2632-3338
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/AE147E

Regolith analysis via penetrometry: Contrasting planets and minor bodies

Author(s): Alexander Smyth-Moore, Johan Borg, Naomi Murdoch, Cecily Sunday, Hiroki Kato, Hideaki Miyamoto, Erika Kaufmann, Mikael Granvik, Axel Hagermann
Published in: Icarus, Issue 457, 2026, ISSN 0019-1035
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ICARUS.2026.117180

Exploring planetary regolith: deriving geotechnically meaningful properties from penetrometry

Author(s): Alexander Smyth-Moore, Erika Kaufmann, Qi Jia, Naomi Murdoch, Hideaki Miyamoto, Mikael Granvik, Axel Hagermann
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 541, 2025, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/MNRAS/STAF982