And how can you be involved?
There are many things we can learn from our exploration of the moon. But where do we look? By capturing priorities across scientists who study the moon as well as the wider community, we create a map that dynamically displays the most relevant and feasible zones for lunar sampling to take place.
This saves time, money, and ensures wider involvement and transparency across all citizens interested in our exploration of our moon.
Data-driven
Using advanced image processing techniques, we aggregate Lunar data from a range of sources to create a feasibility map of regions of potential interest.
People-driven
We augment map data with feedback from the citizen and scientific community to weight potential landing zones with real-world interest.
First, we take location data of the moon pertaining to specific research or engineering goals such as the likelihood of water, or mineral deposits, etc. in different zones.
We take citizen, scientist, and engineer votes on collection priorities (e.g. water discovery, specific mineral analysis, etc.) right here on this website.
We aggregate data collected from steps 1 & 2 to form a priority map driven by data and the collective goals of the scientific and wider community.
Then, through advanced techniques, we find the landing zones with the highest potential relative to community goals, as well as providing the shortest path to optimise travel time and resources.
Finally, we map out the shortest path between identified strategic locations for a future robotic or human collection mission.
By directing missions to locations with the highest value for the largest proportion of the scientific community, we will streamline missions, saving resources, astronaut and extravehicular activity time
There are a range of potential scientific uses for lunar samples.
Which do you think is more important to you? Vote below and see where your choice sits in the world's citizen priorities:
Note: Citizen votes are passed on to NASA to capture areas of public interest, and are displayed here to demonstrate how scientific research groups will bid for mission priorities, feeding into data analysis for landing site and route recommendations.
For more information on any of the above uses, visit our info page here
We're a multidisciplinary team leveraging our backgrounds in machine learning, data analytics, mining, UX and psychology to acheive our collective goal of providing a transparent, economic, value-driven visualisation of our moon.
Lets get in touch. Send us a message:
Brisbane, AUS
Phone (at Avestix Lab): 1300 766 261
GLOBAL LUNAR PRIORITISATION NETWORK