Laboratory Studies of Physical Interactions of Exploration Hardware with Surfaces of Airless Bodies

摘要: In situ resource utilization in space will add new manned and robotic exploration capabilities. Uncertainties exist regarding the interaction of hardware with surfaces airless bodies, particularly where volatile resources may be present such as asteroid surfaces, permanently shadowed craters on Moon, martian moons Phobos Deimos. We a plan to study idealized probes analog regolith over range water ice content. The proposed tests are described fundamental physical-sciences experiments that isolate specific technological component environment. This work is beginning stages recently selected Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres, Cosmic Dust, member NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual at University Colorado Boulder, which authors School Mines co-investigators.