HAMPTON — NASA is calling on students from 10 different universities to test their projects on how to extract water from Mars.
NASA Langley is holding its Ice Challenge from 10 a.m. until noon on Thursday at its research center.
The 10 teams will work at simulated Martian ice stations set up in Langley’s research aircraft hangar. Each station will consist of layers of material and solid blocks of ice that students will drill into using equipment they designed and built, according to a news release from NASA.
The teams are from Alfred University in New York, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University in Boston, Rowan University in New Jersey, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and West Virginia University, according to the news release.
The event is in partnership with the National Institute of Aerospace in Hampton and is called the RASC-AL (Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkages) Special Edition: Mars Ice Challenge.
For information about the challenge, go here.
