Path #2 would be the path followed if crustal insulation was insufficient for mantle temperatures to reach partial melting levels. This may have been the case beneath the South Pole-Aiken Basin on the far side of the Moon (see South Pole-Aiken discussion under Stage Four in lecture 10).

The moon has a two-week day followed by a two-week night.  Fortunately however at the south pole there are some areas that receive sunlight almost 90 percent of the time.  These would be good locations for solar power arrays to power a lunar outpost.

• Pictures
• Interesting facts
• Conditions of the moon
• 6 wheels
• Solar panels: energy
• Docking station
• Batteries, what kind?
• Make static
• radio repeater
• ground penetrating radar then
• effects communications

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imapersonthingy: we need to be more centered around the finding water

imapersonthingy: Design a robot to try and find water in the Aiken Basin

sumguysr: ground penetrating radar then

sumguysr: we should research into oil well and water well drilling tech

sumguysr: Austin's dad is a sonar audio engineer he may be a resource to direct us towards oil detecting info

sumguysr: finding oil analogous to water

sumguysr: my guess would be that crude oil has polar components in it but refined is non-polar

ArleenThukral: first we need to find where Aiken Basin is

ArleenThukral: The South Pole-Aiken Basin (or the Big Backside Basin) is the largest impact crater on the Moon and one of the biggest in the solar system.

sumguysr: effects communications

sumguysr: are we allowed to have several bots operating together

ArleenThukral: This may have been the case beneath the South Pole-Aiken Basin on the far side of the Moon (see South Pole-Aiken discussion under Stage Four in lecture 10).

sumguysr: far side means we're gonna need to have a radio repeater or two

sumguysr: water will be difficult as it will be ice

sumguysr: 2500km diam 12 km deep

ArleenThukral: we can use solar panels

ArleenThukral: http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:G2wZBBmvsi8J:aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/HAS/cirr/em/6/5.cfm+Aiken+Basin+sunlight&hl=en

sumguysr: i don't see how we can effectively cover that without multiple bots

sumguysr: can we use live onboard organisms for processing

ArleenThukral: water ice would be near the surface because ice is less dense than water

openware style: present it as if we would design and gpl all the hardware and software so under developed country could build and launch a bot and get in on the lunar ice rush

the design needs to be modular whatever we do

for quick repairs and extra modifications at a later date

what u think bout my idea of making it openware style

so underdeveloped nations can get a bot on the moon without too much difficulty

: a regular sensor would detect water, the computer would register this, the computer would spray pheremones at the mice from a direction corresponding to the direction of the water in relation to the bot, the mouse would move towards

the pheremones causing the bot to go towards the water

the mice would have vid screens and the bots cameras for visual obstacle avoidance

i wonder if we can find a lunar map that shows sunlight coverage at diff times

A Solar Powered Station at a Lunar Pole

so start a text or word doc with the conditions the bot would have to brave

sumguysr: stuff like temp, light conditions, environment, obstacles it'll have to navigate, etc

mobility: 8 wheels good active suspension, better drive and greater traction

pseudo legs are legs mounted on wheels, a different drive system that allows for greater object clearance.

six wheel, six leg pseudo legs, with legs that collapse, fold toward the outside of the wheel or inside.

a super capacitor powered bot but not sure how feasible that is.

it would charge pretty much instantly though which would be gr8

we would save something just a bit larger

we would have two of them