Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading
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- Protolabs: NASA’s Thirst for Water on Mars Quenched by Student Innovators
- "Cost Breakeven Analysis of Cis-lunar ISRU for Propellant"
- "Cost Breakeven Analysis of Lunar ISRU for Human Lunar Surface Architectures"
- Reaching 1m Deep on Mars - The Icebreaker Drill
- Planetary Volatiles Extractor (PVEx) for In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)
- MEPAG Report with regard to ISRU and Mars (look under the Working Group and SMD Reports)
- Mobile In-Situ Water Extractor (MISWE) for Mars, Moon, and Asteroids In Situ Resource Utilization
- Methods for cuttings removal from holes drilled on Mars
- Laboratory drilling under Martian conditions yields unexpected results
- Enhancing cuttings removal with gas blasts while
- Drilling Systems for Extraterrestrial Subsurface Exploration
- Considerations, constraints and strategies for drilling on Mars
- Testing of a 1 meter Mars IceBreaker Drill in a 3.5 meter
- Phoenix soil physical properties investigation
- NASA Mars 2007 Phoenix Lander Robotic Arm and Icy Soil
- Hecht Mars Soil from Phoenix
- Ground ice at the Phoenix Landing Site Stability state and origin
- Results from the Mars Phoenix Lander Robotic Arm experiment
- PubMed Central Database of Published Research Funded by NASA
- Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group
- 2018 Mars Ice Challenge Test Bed Packing Instructions
- 2020 Q&A Session Transcript
- The Artemis Plan: NASA's Lunar Exploration Program Overview, September 2020
Subject Matter Expert Presentations
Subject Matter Expert Presentations
Project Plan
Project Plan
- AIP Style Manual – Physics Manuscripts - American Institute of Physics
REQUIRED FORMS
- Letter of Support (Required for Proposal)
- Vendor/W9 Form (Required for Proposal)
- Note: Teams may receive a pre-filled W-9 form from their institution's accounting department. This form is equivalent to our “Vendor/W-9 Form," and is considered an acceptable substitution.
Technical Reports / Data Searching
Poster Presentation
Poster Presentation
- How to Prepare a Poster - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Designing Conference Posters - Colin Purrington
- Designing Effective Posters - University of North Carolina
- The Basics of Poster Design - Washington Space Grant Consortium
- Scientific Poster Powerpoint Templates - Make Signs.com
Software
Software
- Catalog of free software from NASA's Technology Transfer Program
- DS SolidWorks has offered to provide RASC-AL teams with free software (if needed) – SolidWorksSimulation design validation tools. They are offering free SolidWorks with Simulation to each team member for their personal computers. If you are interested in obtaining the free software, please click the link above, then “click here for team sponsorship” and fill out the online form.
Please note that neither NASA nor NIA are endorsing SolidWorks or NAFCOM products, and each team needs to make independent assessment of these offers and products.
Mars Human Landing Site Study
Mars Human Landing Site Study
For up-to-date information and invitations to relevant SME presentations via Google Hangouts, please send a request to be added to the HLS2 distribution list to the following email: nasa-mars-exploration-zones@mail.nasa.gov
Logos
Logos
Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge competitors may use the challenge name, logo, and images below on anything which specifically and positively represents the Challenge. This includes any presentations you do before, during, and after the onsite portion of the challenge.
Service Grant Parts
Service Grant Parts
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Teams must apply by February 22nd for grant consideration. To obtain your application, please email rascal@nianet.org and “cc” Abbie Siljendahl
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