In Summer 2021, two REU interns, Erin Pimentel and Charlie Willard, worked with SETI Institute's Dr Pascal Lee to identify two dozen candidate sites for NASA's future Artemis Base Camp near the South Pole of the Moon. This Summer (2022), two new REU interns, Sofi English and Cody Johnson, worked with Dr Lee to examine more closely the three most promising areas from last year's study: Shackleton-DeGerlache Ridge, Shackleton-Slater, and Mt Kocher.
Cody, a US Army veteran and now a student at Western Nevada College, investigated where, specifically, the Artemis Base Camp's solar array, comms antennae, habitat structures, and landing/launch pad might be set up at each candidate site. Sofi, an aerospace engineering student at Texas A&M, investigated for each location the optimal
traverse paths astronauts could rove to access local sites of highest scientific interest.
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