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The RIOT Challenge is a hands-on research competition where student teams design and run their own off-world experiments. Teams design the experiment. We supply the regolith. Here's how the challenge is structured, what's due along the way, and the key...
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Meet RIOT (Regolith Innovation for Off-World Technologies), our research challenge for teams ready to run real experiments with Lunar and Martian regolith simulants. Here's how it works, what's in the package, and the eight awards up for grabs.
At first glance, the Moon appears to be covered in the same gray material everywhere. It isn't. Lunar regolith is a complex mixture of minerals, broken rock, impact glass, breccias, agglutinates, and extremely fine particles produced and reworked over billions...
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The lunar surface may look like a simple layer of gray dust, but lunar regolith is a complex granular material whose physical, mechanical, mineralogical, and thermal properties directly affect how humans and machines will operate on the Moon. For engineers developing...
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It is a familiar weekend battle for parents everywhere: prying the tablet out of your child’s hands to get them to engage with the real world. We have all been there, searching for that elusive activity that is both educational...
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