UArizona Geosciences Assistant Professor Ananya Mallik's NASA Proposal is Selected for Funding
Pictured: Laboratory synthesized rock composition that would have crystallized inside the Moon produced in UARizona Geosciences lab by graduate student Arkadeep Roy.
UArizona Geosciences Assistant Professor Ananya Mallik's NASA proposal titled "How ‘wet’ is the Moon: Insight from hydrogen partitioning during lunar magma ocean crystallization” is selected for funding. The team also consists of UARizona Geosciences Assistant Professor Pranabendu Moitra (co-investigator), and graduate student Arkadeep Roy, along with colleagues at DLR Berlin, ASU and UA-LPL. The proposal was granted $548,566 with the goal of estimating the bulk hydrogen content of the silicate Moon, or determine the ‘wetness’ of the Moon. The proposal will be pushlished by NASA soon.