Lunar Geology for Engineers and Scientists

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Lunar Geology for Engineers and Scientists

• Tom Riley
• 6-0712 January 09, 2006
• John.T.Riley_at_nasa.gov
• But Ill know my song well before I start
  singin
• Bob Dylan

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Course Description

• A lunchtime lecture series at GSFC
• Six short lectures
• Start simply end state-of-the-art
• A Study of Luna
• Develop our foundation of knowledge
• Get ready to win new projects
• Intro, lecture, QA, reference table, out
• Course description in file
• Geology_of_Moon_course02.doc

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Purpose

• Learn a lot about Luna fast
• Earn personal advantage on
• New Luna mission assignments at GSFC
• Preparing proposals
• Make it happen
• For people hungry enough to be serious
• It is not going to happen by itself folks!
• An honor and privilege to work on great
  expeditions of science and exploration
• Earth science, space science, manned exploration

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GSFC can win in these areas

• Science instruments
• Robotic and manned
• Robotic rovers
• For science and exploration
• Astronaut tools
• Command and navigation systems
• Data processing and archiving

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Lecturer Dr. Paul Lowman

• Lunar experience dating back to Apollo
• GSFCs premier Luna resource person
• Bio file
• PDL_lunar_resume.doc
• Course Viewgraphs and handouts
• Will be available the day of the lecture in pdf
• Electronic distribution by email

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Dates

• Tuesday and Thursday in January 2006
• Lecture 1 Jan 10, 2006, Bld. 26 Rm. 205
• Lecture 2 Jan 12, 2006, Bld. 26 Rm. 205
• Lecture 3 Jan 17, 2006, Bld. 26 Rm. 205
• Lecture 4 Jan 19, 2006, Bld. 26 Rm. 205
• Lecture 5 Jan 26, 2006, Bld. 3 Rm. Aud
• Lecture 6 Jan 31, 2006, Bld. 3 Rm. Aud
• All lectures are 1200 noon to 100 PM
• Informal, no sign up required
• Room limit about 100 people

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Course Outline

• Field trip to the Moon  Geology of the Imbrium
  Basin
• Chemistry and Mineralogy of the Moon
• Lunar craters and mare basins
• Petrology of the Moon
• The lunar surface environment
• Uses of the Moon

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Web References

• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, http//lunar.gsfc.na
  sa.gov/
• The Vision for Space Exploration,
  http//www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/main
  /index.html
• How we will get back to the Moon
  http//www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/cev.html
• Lunar Surface Journal http//www.hq.nasa.gov/offic
  e/pao/History/alsj/frame.html
• Clementine(1994) http//nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/plan
  etary/lunar/clementine1.html
• Mosaic volumes CL_6019 and CL_6022
• NASA World Wind, Luna, Interaction with
  Clementine data http//worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
• Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVI
• http//www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2005/pdf/
  program.pdf

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Popular References

• Science_at_NASA
  http//science.nasa.gov/
• Lunar Lawn Mower 11.09.2005
• Mesmerized by Moondust 11.21.2005
• Moon Storms 12.07.2005
• An Explosion on the Moon 12.23.2005
• Apollo Chronicles 01.032006
• Space.Com, Stepping Back to the Moon,
  http//www.space.com/businesstechnology/060104_moo
  n_return.htm
• Sky and Telescope
• Wood, Why Are Craters Rays Bright?, January
  2006, pp 67-68
• Krupp, Gold Dust, February 2006, pp 43-44
• Wood, Weird Crater Rays, February 2006, pp
  58-59
• Lowman, P.D., Jr., Field trip to the Moon, The
  Science Teacher, April 2004, 71, 26-32
• Tom Riley, The Dark of the Moon, short story in
  .pdf
• Reploge, Luna Globe

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Reference Books

• Lowman, Exploring Space, Exploring Earth
• Spudis, The Geology of Multi-Ring Impact Basins
• Bussey, The Clementine Atlas of the Moon
• Heiken, Vaniman, Frence, Lunar Source Book
• Godwin, Apollo 12 The NASA Mission Report
• Also Apollo 15, 16, 17
• Barth, Theoretical Petrology out of print
• Light, Full Moon picture book of Apollo
• Rükl, Atlas of the Moon Earth view of moon maps

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Journal Articles

• Maria T. Zuber and Ian Garrick-Bethell, What Do
  We Need to Know to Land on the Moon Again?,
  Science, Vol 310, pp 983-985, 11 November 2005
• Paul D. Lowman Jr., Astronomy from the Moon The
  Road Not Taken, Accepted by Physics Today

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Following Up

• For electronic copy of lecture viewgraphs email
  John.T.Riley_at_nasa.gov
• Related presentations available
• Tom Riley, Generating Buy-in for the Vision for
  Space Exploration NASAs Exploration
  Architecture
• Tom Riley, Building Diversity in NASAs New
  Vision
• Are you interested in following up?
• More lectures? Know a lecturer?
• Got an idea? How about an AO rapid response
  team?
• Need a study group on a specific technical topic?
• Contact Tom Riley

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Quotes

• But Ill know my song well before I start
  singin, Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain Gonna Fall
• When the going gets tough the tough get going
  -- Joseph P. Kennedy
• Jump! Ask how high on the way up. -- Anonymous
• You snooze you lose! -- Anonymous
• the life of the world may move forward into
  broad, sunlit uplands. Winston Churchill,
  Their Finest Hour, June 1940
• Here you see, it takes all the running you can
  do, to keep in the same place, the Red Queen --
  Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
• Did you finally get a chance, to dance along the
  light of day, Judy Collins, Drops of Jupiter