Space Exploration And Extraterrestrial Mining

NYUAD Institute

As population and pollution increase, humans are looking at high frontiers. Potential benefits of extraterrestrial mining are immense. For example, NASA has identified an asteroid, 16 Psyche, to be worth more than 10,000 quadrillion dollars, while the economy of our planet is about 80 trillion dollars. But there are also challenges, including: mining in Space (planets and asteroids); exploration, transport, manufacture, waste management of space; effects on humans; optimal design of tests; bio(microbial) approach, etc. This talk discusses aspects of these possible explorations and their challenges. * Time: 7:00pm Gulf Standard Time 10:00am Eastern Standard Time To access the live stream click here Speaker Ponisseril Somasundaran, Lavon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering, Columbia University In Collaboration with center for space science NYUAD