Water on the Moon: | Dr. Parvathy Prem | | Kainaati Chai | In English

04/19/25 • 51 min

How did water get on the Moon? What can computer simulations tell us about the formation of the Moon? Our guest, Dr. Parvathy Prem, talks about how she ended up doing research on the Moon, and why we should be concerned about the upcoming settlements on the Moon.
Dr. Parvathy Prep is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). She was born in Kerala, India, and grew up mostly in Kerala and partly in England. She received her PhD from University of Texas at Austin, before moving to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).
Reference paper:
A call for Indigenous partnership in the return to the Moon: Tavares et al. (2024): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
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Credits:
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Music: Zohaib Kazi

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