Results of the Trace Contaminant Control Needs Evaluation and Sizing Study for Space Suit Life Support Development

Paul, Heather L.; Jennings, Mallory A.

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Section: Contamination Concerns and Biologically Interesting Moleculesmentioning

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“…These tracking methods may be especially important given venting and leakage from the types of space suits that may be used on the Moon and other bodies (Campbell, 2011; Papale et al., 2013; Paul et al., 2010), particularly given that humans and associated exploration objects may carry a high microbial burden (Danko et al., 2021). Currently, space suits leak continuously during use without any sort of filtration.…”

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In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other Planets

Saxena,

Morrissey,

Killen

et al. 2023

Earth and Space Science

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Future exploration efforts of the Moon, Mars, and other bodies are poised to focus heavily on persistent and sustainable survey and research efforts, especially given the recent interest in a long‐term sustainable human presence at the Moon. Key to these efforts understands a number of important processes on the lunar surface for both scientific and operational purposes. We discuss the potential value of in situ artificial substrate witness plates, powerful tools that can supplement familiar remote sensing and sample acquisition techniques and provide a sustainable way of monitoring processes in key locations on planetary surfaces while maintaining a low environmental footprint. These tools, which we call Biscuits, can use customized materials as wide ranging as zircon‐based spray coatings to metals potentially useable for surface structures, to target specific processes/questions as part of a small, passive witness plate that can be flexibly placed with respect to location and total time duration. We examine and discuss unique case studies to show how processes such as water presence/transport, presence and contamination of biologically relevant molecules, solar activity related effects, and other processes can be measured using Biscuits. Biscuits can yield key location sensitive, time integrated measurements on these processes to inform scientific understanding of the Moon and enable operational goals in lunar exploration. While we specifically demonstrate this on a simulated traverse and for selected examples, we stress all groups interested in planetary surfaces should consider these adaptable, low footprint, and highly informative tools for future exploration.

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Section: Contamination Concerns and Biologically Interesting Moleculesmentioning

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Section: Capturing Key Processes On the Moonmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other Planets

Saxena,

Morrissey,

Killen

et al. 2023

Earth and Space Science

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Results of the Trace Contaminant Control Needs Evaluation and Sizing Study for Space Suit Life Support Development

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In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other Planets

In Situ Optimized Substrate Witness Plates: Ground Truth for Key Processes on the Moon and Other Planets

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