Water on the Moon: | Dr. Parvathy Prem | | Kainaati Chai |
How did water get on the Moon? What can computer simulations tell us about the formation of the Moon? Our guest, Dr. Parvathy Prem, talks about how she ended up doing research on the Moon, and why we should be concerned about the upcoming settlements on the Moon.
Dr. Parvathy Prep is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). She was born in Kerala, India, and grew up mostly in Kerala and partly in England. She received her PhD from University of Texas at Austin, before moving to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).
Reference paper:
A call for Indigenous partnership in the return to the Moon: Tavares et al. (2024): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
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Host: Salman Hameed has a PhD in astronomy and is Charles Taylor Chair of Integrated Science & Humanities at Hampshire College and a member of the Five College Astronomy Department (FCAD) in Massachusetts, USA. He is also the CEO of the non-profit Kainaat Studios
Credits:
Editor: Shehryar Shaikh
Music: Zohaib Kazi
Subtitles: DigiCircle ([email protected])
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
02:40 - Start in science
08:20 - Dragonfly mission
11:00 - Discovery of Water on the Moon
18:30 - Computational model to look for the origin of water on the Moon
22:15 - Source of water on the Moon
32:03 - Use of Lunar water?
37:55 - Partnership to return to the Moon
45:00 - Inspiration from Sci-Fi