# Presentation: 252043

## Lunar Geology for Engineers and Scientists

- Tom Riley
- 6-0712	January 09, 2006
- _[John.T.Riley@nasa.gov](mailto:John.T.Riley@nasa.gov)_
- “But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’ ”
- 	 – Bob Dylan

## 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, Q&A, reference table, out
- Course description in file:
- Geology_of_Moon_course02.doc

## 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

## 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

## Lecturer:  Dr. Paul Lowman

- Lunar experience dating back to Apollo
- GSFC’s 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

## 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 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM
- Informal, no sign up required
- Room limit about 100 people

## 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

## Web References

- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- The Vision for Space Exploration, _[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/main/index.html](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](http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/cev.html)_
- Lunar Surface Journal http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/frame.html
- “Clementine(1994)” _[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/clementine1.html](http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/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](http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2005/pdf/program.pdf)_

## Popular References

- Science@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_moon_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

## 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

## 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”

## Following Up

- For electronic copy of lecture viewgraphs email: John.T.Riley@nasa.gov
- Related presentations available:
- Tom Riley, “Generating Buy-in for the ‘Vision for Space Exploration’ & ‘NASA’s Exploration Architecture’”
- Tom Riley, “Building Diversity in NASA’s 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

## Quotes

- “But I’ll 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*