New paper calls for human lunar exploration - ow.ly/AtIed Professor Ian Crawford, from Birkbeck’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and a colleague from the University of Manchester have published a paper in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, calling for renewed human operations on the surface of the Moon. The paper, entitled ‘Lunar exploration: opening a window into the history and evolution of the inner Solar System’, reviews lunar exploration to date and describes how future activities will further advance our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Moon, the Earth-Moon system and the solar system more generally. Professor Crawford says: In 2007, 14 of the world’s space agencies produced the Global Exploration Strategy, laying the foundation for an ambitious, global space exploration programme. If the Global Exploration Roadmap outlined in the strategy is successfully implemented over the next 25 years, I believe that the use of human and robotic exploration of the inner solar system will lead to an increased understanding of the origin and evolution of the Earth–Moon system. For more information on Birkbeck’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences - bbk.ac.uk/geology
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:28:08 +0000
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