{"id":308,"date":"2014-06-15T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T01:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=308"},"modified":"2014-06-15T17:41:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T01:41:52","slug":"june-cafe-scientifique-with-john-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2014\/06\/15\/june-cafe-scientifique-with-john-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"June Caf\u00e9 Scientifique with John Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #141823;\">Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0<strong>Tuesday June 24th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club<\/strong>. Our speaker for the evening will be\u00a0<b>John Walker<\/b>,<b>\u00a0<\/b>Rover Development Lead of the Hakuto Google Lunar X-Prize Team.\u00a0 The title of his talk is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #141823;\">Lunar Spelunking<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #141823;\">Lava tubes, or caves likely exist on the surface of the moo<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"color: #141823;\">n. Based on recent images and laser distance measurements from the surface of the moon, scientists have selected candidates for further study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I will present some of these candidates and my PhD research, which is supporting a Google Lunar X-Prize team&#8217;s attempt to survey one of these caves using robots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0Tuesday June 24th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be\u00a0John Walker,\u00a0Rover Development Lead of the Hakuto Google Lunar X-Prize Team.\u00a0 The title of his talk is: Lunar Spelunking Lava tubes, or caves likely exist on the surface of the moon. Based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}