Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Rittenhouse: I hope this motivates people
When people told Wheaton native Jeremiah Rittenhouse, The sky is the limit, he pushed even further.
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Rittenhouse a Ph. D. student at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), is part of one of seven teams chosen by NASA to develop a technology to remove lunar dust from solar cells.
NASAs Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge brought both university students and space agency together to fight the damages lunar dust causes on solar cells. According to Missouri S&T News and Events, solar cells can be used to generate power to lunar landers, moon explorers and even inhabitants.