Highlights from ILEWG LUNEX EuroMoonMars Earth Space Innovation, ArtMoonMars, Space Renaissance & EuroSpaceHub

Abstract

EuroMoonMars is an ILEWG/LUNEX programme in collaboration with space agencies, academia, universities and research institutions and industries. The programme includes research activities for data analysis, instruments tests and development, field tests in MoonMars analogue, pilot projects, training and hands-on workshops, and outreach activities. Extreme environments on Earth often provide similar terrain conditions to sites on the Moon and Mars. In order to maximize scientific return it becomes more important to rehearse mission operations in the field and through simulations. EuroMoonMars field campaigns have then been organised in specific locations of technical, scientific and exploration interest. Field tests have been conduct ed in ESTEC, EAC, at Utah MDRS station , Eifel, Rio Tinto, Iceland, La Reunion, LunAres AATC bases in Poland, and at Hawaii. Latest campaigns have been conducted jointly between EuroMoonMars -International Moon Base Alliance -HI-SEAS (EMMIHS) at Mauna Loa Hawaii since 2018. Samples of different lava flows from Mauna Loa have been compared to measurements of the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) in order to provide more insight in the similarities of the effects of hydrous alteration on volcanic rocks on Mars. In lava tubes accessible from HI-SEAS, Hawaii, there are several minerals present that appear to form from the surrounding basaltic rock by hydrological and microbial processes. The purpose of this study is to research the secondary mineralization in lava tubes to understand the characteristics and formation processes of the mineral precipitates as analogue for the presence of secondary minerals in lava tubes on other terrestrial bodies in the solar system. We supported telerobotic campaigns at Etna in 2017 (DLR/ROBEX), and one in June 2022 (ARCHES collaboration) and organized EMM-Etna in July 2021. We performed in 2019-2020 scouting analogue campaigns in Iceland. The EuroMoonMars CHILL-ICE mission in July-August 2021, was set in the Surtshellir-Stefanshellir cave system in the Hallmundarhraun lava flow located in Western Iceland. We tested instruments and equipment (rovers, drones) in a lunar_x0002_analogue field terrain. 2x3 astronauts in EVA deployed ECHO emergency shelter in a lavatube where they stayed for 2x3 days. In Chile, the Atacama Desert and the neighboring Arid Central Andes (Puna) represent a geograph_x0002_ical site whose particular environmental conditions make it a potential Mars analogue. A scout Chile MoonMars campaign was organized in February 2021, and a large Atacama Ojos del Salado campaign was conducted 21 Feb-6 March 2022. The ArtMoonMars programme of cultural and artistic activities was started in 2010 by ILEWG/LUNEX Lunar Explorers Group in collaboration with ESA ESTEC and number of partner institutions, with more than 45 events (workshops, space artscience classes, public events, sessions at international conferences) and exhibitions. What payload for an Artscience Museum on the Moon ? After SMART-1 missions and lunar lander studies, Bernard Foing was working on lander payload for Google Lunar X prize project and built a prototype ExoGeoLab lander in 2009. He looked at possibility to host cultural or artscience payload on such landers. More than 50 ArtMoonMars events between space science, technology and art communities were organized since MoonLife Academy in 2010. The MoonGallery idea and concept was developed by Bernard Foing from 2010 (inspired by FOTON Biopan in 2005 and EXPOSE ISS in 2008), to send an expanded gallery of artscience artefacts to the Moon on possible landers. The price for such commercial landers is about 1 Meu/ kg therefore he targeted the smallest weight possible, and he proposed a grid gallery 10x10 cm x 1 cm that could be attached to a 10 cm cubesat, or to a lander. He called this concept MoonGallery, as an international collaborative artwork and a gallery of ideas worth sending to the Moon. Moon Gallery aims to set up the first permanent museum on the Moon. Moon Gallery will launch 100 artefacts to the Moon within the compact format of 10 x 10 x 1cm plate on a lunar lander exterior panelling as early as 2022 . What are the ideas we want to promote into the future? What are the ideas we want to leave behind? A MoonGallery project team was formed in 2018 to issue a call for the community of artists. For these activities, ILEWG established ArtMoonMars grants to MoonGallery curators, and to some artists or temporary team members. The MoonGallery team since 2018 together created more than 30 events, workshops, exhibitions where ArtMoonMars and MoonGallery activies were presented and where artscientists were participating.' MoonGallery Test ISS is one of the ongoing projects of MGF. A contract was signed with NanoRacks provider company to launch MG-ISS operate it, and return it to Earth. A new effort with external partners building on previous ArtMoonMars and EuroMoonMars pro_x0002_grammes led to the definition of a new MoonMars initiative with broader objectives to develop opportu_x0002_nities and funding, to various groups including space artists. ArtMoonMars also collaborates with Space Renaissance Art chapter.