<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">    Monday, April 8th at <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:30am CT</b><b> </b></font></font><br></font></div></div><div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif" style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Where:       </b>Talk will be given <font style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">                       TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                       5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually:</b><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">  via Panopto </span>(<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6c9688ce-745e-4f89-b55b-b109010ba310" target="_blank">livestream</a><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>         </font></font>Terry Fong, NASA</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></p><div><p style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font color="#000000"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><b>Title:</b>          </span></font><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><font face="georgia, serif">The NASA Volatiles Inspecting Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Mission</font></span></font></p><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Abstract:  </b>The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) is a NASA mission designed to explore the extreme environment of the Moon in search of water ice. VIPER will land at the South Pole of the Moon and spend approximately 100-days mapping and surveying four different "ice stability regions" to understand the nature and distribution of these "in-situ resources". The information returned by VIPER will help determine how we can harvest the Moon's resources for future human space exploration.</font></div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br>NASA will use VIPER to determine where the Moon's water ice is most likely to be found and easiest to access, making VIPER the first-ever resource mapping mission on another celestial body. The first in-situ resource maps of the Moon will mark a critical step forward in NASA's Artemis program to establish a sustainable human presence on the surface of the Moon. Determining the distribution, physical state, and composition of water ice deposits will also help us understand the sources of the lunar polar water, giving us insight into the distribution and origin of water and other volatiles across the solar system.<br><br>During VIPER's exploration of the Moon, the rover will endure extreme temperature conditions, dynamic lighting and complex terrain, while near-real-time rover driving will present new design, engineering and operational challenges.</font><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Short Bio</b>: Dr. Terry Fong is the Chief Roboticist at the NASA Ames Research Center and the deputy rover manager for VIPER. Terry previously led the development of the Astrobee free-flying robot, which was deployed to the International Space Station in 2019. Terry has published more than</font></div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">150 papers in space and field robotics, human-robot interaction, virtual reality user interfaces, and planetary mapping. Terry received his B.S.<br>and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Robotics from CMU.<br><br><b>Host: </b><a href="mailto:mturk@ttic.edu"><b>Matthew Turk</b></a></font></div></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">--</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></div></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></div></div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></div></div></div></div></div>