Physicist Jeff Gillis-Davis in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis is leading a team that will develop and test an instrument to measure the chemistry of rocks, minerals, soil and ices on the surface of the moon. The device is small enough to be carried by a rover or other robotic explorer.
On Monday, Aug. 29, NASA plans to launch its Orion spacecraft from the world's most powerful rocket for a trip around the moon. Lunar scientist Bradley L. Jolliff in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis explains why the Artemis mission represents the next great leap in human exploration of space.
Led by physicist Alex Meshik in Arts & Sciences, Washington University scientists designed and built the device that NASA is using to extract gases from a lunar sample from the Apollo 17 mission.
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