Posts Tagged ‘regolith’
LCROSS Amateur Observation Campaign
A NASA mission to search for water on the moon needs help from citizen scientists with 10-12″ aperture telescopes to observe a lunar impact in early October. The project is actively asking for you to send in your images of the impact.These images will provide a valuable addition to the archive of data chronicling the impact and its aftermath. [...]
Regolith Excavation Challenge
The Regolith Excavation Challenge allows citizen inventors to participate by applying their talents to develop innovative solutions and new technologies to efficiently excavate lunar regolith.
The project is designed to promote the development of mechanical designs to excavate lunar regolith. [...]
Lunabotics Mining Competition
Advances in lunar regolith mining have the potential to significantly contribute to NASA space exploration operations. The Lunabotics Mining Competition uses excavation, a necessary first step towards extracting resources from the regolith and building bases on the Moon. The teams that can use telerobotic or autonomous operation to excavate the most lunar regolith simulant [...]