Date: April 5, 2012
Title: A Human Mission to the Lunar South Pole
Podcasters: Nancy Atkinson & Kirby Runyon
Organization: NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI)
Links: NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) – http://lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov/
Southwest Research Institute: http://www.swri.org/
Music: “Amelia” by Ben Bedford from his “Land of the Shadows” CD. http://benbedford.com/
Description: A fun part of the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference is seeing the poster displays, usually presented by graduate students about interesting research or topics. One of the more fascinating lunar posters this year was an exciting case study for a human mission to Amundsen Crater on the Moon, to study the volatiles at the lunar south pole. Nancy Atkinson talks with Kirby Runyon, a graduate student in Planetary Geology at Johns Hopkins University, who was the lead author on this research.
Bios: Kirby Runyon has loved space science and exploration all his life, which led him toward an MS in planetary geology in 2011 from Temple University. He will start a PhD in the same topic later this year at Johns Hopkins University. His summer 2011 internship at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, TX provided the topic for this podcast. He is moving to the Baltimore, MD area later this year with his wife, Jen.
NLSI brings together leading lunar scientists from around the world to further NASA lunar science and exploration.
Nancy Atkinson is a science journalist and is the Senior Editor for Universe Today http://www.universetoday.com
Sponsor: This episode of “365 days of Astronomy” is sponsored anonymously and is dedicated to the international dark-sky association www.darksky.org
Transcript:
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