Author: marc
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Lunar Exospheric Water Migration Visualization
We developed an interactive scientific visualization that explores the behavior of surficial water molecules on the Moon. It combines lunar topography, illumination, and temperature measurements from NASA’s Diviner instrument with a physical model of thermal desorption, ballistic transport, and adsorption, described in the publication of Peschel et al. (2026). As the lunar surface heats and…
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Europlanet Science Congress 2026 in The Hague
Our team attended the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2026, held in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 6–11 September. With more than 1,200 participants, EPSC brought together the international planetary science community to exchange recent results and discuss ongoing and future research in planetary exploration. Our team was represented in the scientific program through the following…
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Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2026 (LPSC)
Our team presented one of our current projects at the 57th edition of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas. In this work, we presented a numerical model to simulate water migration and stability in the Moon’s regolith, using heat and mass transport equations with simplified adsorption physics to improve computational efficiency. A…
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The Project Repository Journal article
We are happy to announce our first project publication on the Project Repository Journal. The article presents the VOLARIS project, which combines laboratory experiments and numerical modelling to investigate how physical, chemical, and thermal processes drive the migration, stability, and distribution of water on and beneath the lunar surface. By accounting for factors such as…
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European Lunar Symposium (ELS) 2025 in Münster
Our team presented the first results of VOLARIS at the European Lunar Symposium in Münster, Germany. The poster investigates how lunar regolith surface roughness and particle shape control micro-shadowing, a key factor governing local temperature variations and thus the stability and migration of water on the Moon, using 3D surface scans of regolith simulants combined…