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The Challenge | Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Sample!

You are the astronaut/robotic mission lead tasked with bringing valuable specimens from the Moon back to Earth for further study. How will you evaluate lunar samples quickly and effectively before or while still on the mission? How will you differentiate samples of potential scientific value from less interesting material?

Titan's Soil Sampler

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Titans soil sampler evaluates specimens quickly while still on the mission and filters them based on given parameters, Our sampler allows both astronauts and robots to analyse lunar samples using a number of sensors.

Titans

Titans soil sampler evaluates specimens quickly while still on the mission and filters them based on given parameters.

It's well known that the lunar soil is highly composed of Meteor debris which may contain valuable or new metals of high scientific value therefore we used a metal detecting sensor.

Supporting this idea we used a hall effect magnetic sensor to detect and magnetic material which our scientists may have interest in.

One on the major reasons for going to the moon once more is to search for water which means life on the moon so we used a soil moisture sensor.

Lately on the Chinese journey to the moon a gel-like orange material was found therefore finding a unfamiliar color material on the moon means a very high scientific value so we used a color sensor to detect any such material.

Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth so it's wise to use a gas sensor to detect (LPG, natural gas, propane, Methane, etc...)

Our sampler allows both astronauts and robots to analyse lunar samples using a number of sensors.

The visibility of the results facilitates mission objectives, data are sent to earth simultaneously.

By installing the tool on a robot's arm, it performs the same job as the astronaut.

Machine learning algorithms can be developed using the collected statistics from the missions.