Probing the Origin(s) of Volatiles in the Moon and their Resource Potential

探索月球挥发物的来源及其资源潜力

• 批准号: 2882739
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: The Open University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2882739
• 关键词: Probing; Origin; Volatiles; Moon; their

On the first of February twenty areas ago, the re-entry of NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia into the Earth's atmosphere killed all the seven astronauts who were on board. One among the seven astronauts was Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian American Woman Aerospace Engineer to go into the Space. Today in her absence,her legacy is alive in the form of inspiration among many young girls in India to make a career in STEM. While reading her biography "The Edge of Time" by Jean-Pierre Harrison to cope with the emptiness of the new school, I developed my interest in Planetary Science at a very early age. Therefore, to learn more about the formation of the Earth and the Solar system, I decided to pursue my higher education in the field of Geology from the University of Delhi, India.During my academic years, subjects such as Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Geomorphology, and Geophysics helped me gain a better understanding of the Earth and the dynamic forces responsible for its formation. As I gradually progressed into the course, my research work majorly revolved around the petrological investigations of the hard rocks. A summer internship on mineralogical studies of Migmatites from Garhwal Himalayan region gave me first hands-on experience of sample preparation for petrographic and mineral chemical studies. While I studied the samples collected from the Garhwal Himalayas, I was fascinated to notice the heterogeneous nature of the rock, both microscopically and in hand samples. The skills I gained during this internship were later helpful in accomplishing my masters'research work on petrographic, mineral chemical, and geochemical characterization of Gabbros from the Naga Hills Ophiolite Belt of India. Based on my petrographical observations, I classified the samples into Massive and Cumulate Gabbros. I used the bulk rock data obtained from XRF analysis for the compositional categorisation of the mineral present in the samples. Further, programmes like COREL DRAW and Geochemical took kit were employed to plot the major oxides, trace element and REE data obtained from ICP-MS analysis for geochemical characterisation of the samples in various bivariant plots. Besides these, I have participated in four field trips across the northern India where I demonstrated my understanding about various geological structures, observed different lithologies, understood the importance of scale while collecting samples and learnt the utilisation of Brunton compass and topographic maps in geological mapping

二十年前的二月一日，美国宇航局哥伦比亚号航天飞机重返地球大气层，机上七名宇航员全部遇难。卡尔帕纳·查瓦拉 (Kalpana Chawla) 是七名宇航员中的一位，她是第一位进入太空的印度裔美国女航空工程师。如今，虽然她不在了，但她留下的遗产仍然以激励印度许多年轻女孩从事 STEM 事业的方式激励着人们。为了应对新学校的空虚，我在阅读让·皮埃尔·哈里森（Jean-Pierre Harrison）所著的她的传记《时间的边缘》时，很早就对行星科学产生了兴趣。因此，为了更多地了解地球和太阳系的形成，我决定在印度德里大学攻读地质学领域的高等教育。在我的学术生涯中，我学习了矿物学、火成岩和变质岩学等科目、地貌学和地球物理学帮助我更好地了解地球和形成地球的动力。随着我逐渐进入课程，我的研究工作主要围绕硬岩的岩石学研究。对喜马拉雅加瓦尔喜马拉雅地区混合岩进行矿物学研究的暑期实习让我第一次获得了岩相学和矿物化学研究样品制备的实践经验。当我研究从加瓦尔喜马拉雅山收集的样本时，我着迷地注意到岩石的异质性，无论是在显微镜下还是在手上样本中。我在这次实习中获得的技能后来有助于完成我的硕士研究工作，涉及印度那伽山蛇绿岩带辉长岩的岩石学、矿物化学和地球化学表征。根据我的岩相观察，我将样本分为块状辉长岩和堆积辉长岩。我使用 XRF 分析获得的大块岩石数据对样品中存在的矿物进行成分分类。此外，还使用 ​​COREL DRAW 和 Geochemical take kit 等程序来绘制从 ICP-MS 分析中获得的主要氧化物、微量元素和 REE 数据，以在各种双变量图中对样品进行地球化学表征。除此之外，我还参加了四次穿越印度北部的实地考察，展示了我对各种地质结构的了解，观察了不同的岩性，了解了收集样本时比例尺的重要性，并学习了布伦顿指南针和地形图在地质测绘中的使用