Laika's Heart| Dust Yourself Off

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The Challenge | Dust Yourself Off

The Apollo missions showed us that lunar dust not only clung to everything and was impossible to fully remove, but it was also dangerous to humans and damaging to spacecraft systems. Your challenge is to develop a way to detect, map, and mitigate lunar dust to reduce the effects on astronauts or spacecraft interior systems.

Laika´s Heart: Dust Yourself off challenge

The inspection and detection of lunar dust. The importance of mitigate the lunar dust presence (regoliths), is due to it abrasive nature that It dam-age the machinery and space suits, also, it is a negative impact on health of the astronauts

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PROBLEM

Our challenge is Dust yourself off: The inspection and detection of lunar dust.

The importance of mitigate the lunar dust presence (regoliths), is due to it abrasive nature that It damage the machinery and space suits, also, it is a negative impact on health of the astronauts

SOLUTION

METHODOLOGY USED

We will use two techniques to cover the 5 phases of the lunar expedition process.

1st phase:First contact with the Lunar dust.

In this case, we propose a detection technique using a network of piezoelectric sensors that they will collect the impact zones data. An AI process will check the collected data of the changes produced in the sensor network, mapping the areas that have been in direct contact with the dust after spacewalk.

2nd phase: Inside the spaceship.

We need to study and know the materials properties for their detection. Is known that the lunar dust show absorption/reflectance/dispersion bands at various wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum when it is excited. Our team proposes to use the optical properties of this dust to detect it in different phases.

Basic parts of the detection system:

  • Light Source: the surface is irradiated.
  • Interaction light-surface: this radiation interacts with the surface (dust included) and part of this radiation is absorbed, reflected, scattered or transmitted.
  • Monochromator: we take the signal (scattered or reflected) and decompose it to obtain its spectral distribution that it will be characteristic of our sample.
  • CCD: we will collect the signal in the wavelength range where the sample presents its own signal.
    • The four things you need to know about the GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF LUNAR SOIL (2005) by W. David Carrier III
    • The Lunar Sourcebook (1991) French, Grant H. Heiken - David T. Vaniman - Bevan M.
    • The Chemical Reactivity of Lunar Dust Relevant to human Exploration of the Moon, by David J. Loftus – Erin M. Tranfield – Clara McCrossin
    • Measurement of the Solar Absorptance and Thermal Emittance of Lunar Simulants (2010), by James R. Gaier – Kenneth W. Street – Robert J. Gustafson
    • Lunar Exploration Initiative: Briefing Topic: Parameters of Lunar Soils (2006) by David A. Kring

Computer: signal processing to form a mapping and indicate the areas where there is dust

REFERENCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY

The four things you need to know about the GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF LUNAR SOIL (2005) by W. David Carrier III

The Lunar Sourcebook (1991) French, Grant H. Heiken - David T. Vaniman - Bevan M.

The chemical reactivity of Lunar Dust relevant to human exploration of the Moon, David J. Loftus-Erin M. Tranfield-Clara McCrossin

Measurement of the Solar Absortance and Thermal Emittance of Lunar Simulants (2010) by James R. Gaier-Kennet W. Street-Robert J. Gustafson

Lunar Exploration Initiative: Briefing Topic: Parameters of Lunar Soils (2006) by David A. Kring

TAGS

#computervision #ai #monochromator #ccd #lunarsoil #dust #detection