Hydrovolts Turbine Project

NASA Moon Work Competition

During the spring semester of 2010 four HCES students competed in the NASA Moon Work Competition to design a tool or an instrument package to be used on the moon. The following tasks could be chosen from:

• Navigation in the darkness around the Moon’s south pole
• Power supplies for rovers in the dark
• Sample retrieval and on-site analysis
• Radiation detection and avoidance
• Communication with lunar outpost, with orbiters, and with Earth
• Video capture of sorties for transmission back to Earth
• Astronaut recovery and transport back to outpost
• Lunar regolith mitigation strategies for rover and space suits
• Detect and retrieve water ice for use on the rover

Team: Julie Xie, Daniel Nevius, Tiffany Au, Colin Santangelo, Lakshmi Parthasarathy