Western News Communications Staff
Paul D. Spudis, a scientist with the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas will discuss a mission to map the moon in an upcoming talk on the Western Campus.
Spudis will speak on Mini-SAR: An Imaging Radar for the Chandrayaan-1 Mission to the Moon on Thursday, April 3 from 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. in Room 123 of the Physics & Astronomy Building.
The Mini-SAR is a spacecraft being readied for India’s Chandrayaan-1 Mission to the moon with a goal of mapping the moon for two years. This mission will help to answer questions about the presence, extent and purity of polar ice.
