{"id":495412,"date":"2023-10-19T12:43:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T16:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?post_type=stem-content&p=495412"},"modified":"2024-02-23T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:30:13","slug":"lunar-surface-exploration","status":"publish","type":"stem-content","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/lunar-surface-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Surface Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four standards-aligned activities help students learn about the STEM needed for NASA to overcome several challenges to explore and inhabit the surface of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>With these activities, students will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Activity One Electrostatic Moon Duster: identify the properties of lunar dust that make it a big problem on the lunar surface and use the engineering design process to create a dust mitigation device.<\/li>\n<li>Activity Two Drilling on the Moon: be challenged to compare the properties of ice to simulated icy-regolith on the Moon\u2019s south pole and design and build a drill bot that will be able to drill through simulated icy-regolith.<\/li>\n<li>Activity Three Print a Lunar Habitat: consider the necessity of In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) and design and construct a model lunar habitat using simulated lunar concrete in an additive manufacturing process.<\/li>\n<li>Activity Four Extract, Pack, Transport: locate and simulate the mining of ilmenite (a Moon resource) and collect the oxygen that is extracted from the ilmenite and be challenged to build a cold storage and transfer system to store and safely transfer the fuel to a spacecraft.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next Generation Science Standards: MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS 1-2, MS-ETS1-3, MS-ETS1-4, MS-PS2-3, S-PS2-5, MS-PS1-2, MS-PS1-4, MS-PS3-3, MS-PS3-4, PS.1.A<\/p>\n<p>Common Core State Standards: MP.2<\/p>\n<h4>Full Guide:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/nasa-lunar-surface-guide-final7-17-23-508-tagged-508-aj.pdf?emrc=5abe3f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lunar Surface Exploration<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/nasa-lunar-surface-guide-final7-17-23-es-508.pdf?emrc=c9f6b0\">Gu\u00eda de exploraci\u00f3n de la superficie lunar<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Section Links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/nasa-lunar-surface-guide-final12-11-23-508-tagged-508intro-aj.pdf?emrc=5d56af\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contents and Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/nasa-lunar-surface-guide-final12-11-23-508-tagged-508actvityone-aj.pdf?emrc=412b71\">Activity One: \u201cElectrostatic Moon Duster\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/activity-two-drilling-on-the-moon\/\">Activity Two: \u201cDrilling on the Moon\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/activity-three-print-a-lunar-habitat\/\">Activity Three: \u201cPrint a Lunar Habitat\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/nasa-lunar-surface-guide-final12-11-23-508-tagged-508activityfour-aj.pdf?emrc=7576b2\">Activity Four: \u201cExtract, Pack, Transport\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/nasa-lunar-surface-guide-final7-17-23-5-appendix-508-tagged.pdf?emrc=9f01b5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Appendix<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This educator guide is part of the Next Gen STEM Moon series. Other Moon standards-aligned science activities in this series:<\/p>\n<p>—<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/crew-transportation-with-orion\/\">Crew Transportation With Orion<\/a><br \/>\n—<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/propulsion-with-the-space-launch-system\/\">Propulsion With the Space Launch System<\/a><br \/>\n—<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/habitation-with-gateway\/\">Habitation With Gateway<\/a><br \/>\n—<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/landing-humans-on-the-moon\/\">Landing Humans on the Moon<\/a><br \/>\n—<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/hazards-to-deep-space-astronauts\/\">Hazards to Deep Space Astronauts<\/a><br \/>\n—<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/deep-space-communications\/\">Deep Space Communications<\/a><br \/>\n—<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/artemis-generation-spacesuits\/\">Artemis Generation Spacesuits<\/a><br \/>\n—<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/build-launch-recover\/\">Build, Launch, Recover<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will use Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to explore exactly what is needed to live and work on the lunar surface.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":498820,"template":"","categories":[],"stem-terms":[8043,8073,8151,8056,8048,8132,8134,8107,8044,8051,8135,8060,8081,8120,8082,8126,8145,8083,8146,8129,8164,8086,8085,8169,8092,8046,8093,8045],"news-tags":[],"internal-terms":[],"coauthors":[8389],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"WebPage","headline":"Lunar Surface Exploration","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/lunar-surface-exploration\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/lunar-surface-exploration\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ngs-lunar-surface-cover.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ngs-lunar-surface-cover.jpg"},"articleSection":"General","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kaitlyn Adams"}],"creator":["Kaitlyn Adams"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"NASA","logo":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/themes\/nasa\/assets\/images\/nasa-logo.svg"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2023-10-19T16:43:42Z","datePublished":"2023-10-19T16:43:42Z","dateModified":"2024-02-23T17:30:13Z"},"rendered":"<meta name=\"parsely-title\" content=\"Lunar Surface Exploration\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-link\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/lunar-surface-exploration\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-type\" content=\"index\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-image-url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ngs-lunar-surface-cover.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-pub-date\" content=\"2023-10-19T16:43:42Z\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-section\" content=\"General\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-author\" content=\"Kaitlyn Adams\" \/>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/nasa.gov\/p.js"},"read_time":2,"featured_image":{"id":498820,"file":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ngs-lunar-surface-cover.jpg","title":"ngs-lunar-surface-cover","alt":"Illustration of astronaut standing on the lunar surface superimposed on the moon itself.","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content\/495412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stem-content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content\/495412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619742,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content\/495412\/revisions\/619742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495412"},{"taxonomy":"stem-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-terms?post=495412"},{"taxonomy":"news-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tags?post=495412"},{"taxonomy":"internal-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-terms?post=495412"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=495412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}