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June Café Scientifique with John Walker
Posted by: susanvickers | June 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday June 24th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be John Walker, Rover Development Lead of the Hakuto Google Lunar X-Prize Team. The title of his talk is:
Lunar Spelunking
Lava tubes, or caves likely exist on the surface of the moon. Based on recent images and laser distance measurements from the surface of the moon, scientists have selected candidates for further study.
Governmental space agencies and private institutions now have plans to visit these potential caves and investigate them as potential lunar habitat sites, as early as 2015.
I will present some of these candidates and my PhD research, which is supporting a Google Lunar X-Prize team’s attempt to survey one of these caves using robots.