Exploring and Living in Space

William A. Ambrose

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1. Kaguya Photograph October 11, 2019 William A. Ambrose Austin Earth Science Week Career Day Exploring and Living in Space
2. Apollo Landing Sites 12 14 15 17 11 16
3. Apollo 15: Mount Hadley 14,000 ft
4. Tycho: Central Peak (6,550 ft high) LROC 15 km
5. Tycho Lavafall, Oblique View Modified from Neish et al. (2011) Kaguya 2 km
6. Tycho Lava flow, Closer View 2 km Kaguya photograph Pahoehoe Lava, Kilauea
7. Mining Ice on the Moon Heliostats Room.eu.com (2017) Collection: IHOP* Kornuta et al. (2019) *Hydrogen Oxygen Production
8. Living on the Moon Sinterhab ESA/Foster + Partners (2013) Inflatable Lunar Base
9. Mars: Northern Ice Cap North pole - MOLA Max. thickness 3 km Volume ~1.2 million km3
10. North Polar Cap Structure Phillips et al. (2008) A A’ A A’
11. Martian Permafrost Phoenix Mission
12. City of Austin for scale! vertical exaggeration 6:1 Mid-Latitude Glacial Ice Holt et al., Science, 2008
13. Living on Mars Underground facilities 15 to 20 tons equipment prior to human landings NASA-JPL Kilopower reactors
14. Sunset on Mars
15. Galileo Photograph Pillan Patera Prometheus Volcanoes on Io
16. Titan Cassini/ Huygens mission Ethane/ Methane Lakes Huygens Probe Craig Attebery
17. Huygens Photograph Earth Titan
18. Pluto: Frozen Nitrogen Glaciers -369 to -387ºF
19. Never Stop Exploring! Kaguya Photograph