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ORE Seminar: Booms, Blasts, and Moon Dust: From Earth’s Atmosphere to the [.

Space exploration generates powerful physical phenomena—from the violent plume-surface interactions of lunar landings to the fiery dynamics of atmospheric re-entry—that pose hazards demanding novel sensing approaches to detect and understand them. This talk connects three projects that leverage these effects: distributed fiber optic sensing of explosion and rocket-launch experiments to investigate lunar plume–surface hazards; real-time observation of a Falcon 9 lunar impact using Chile’s Very Large Telescope; and detection of Artemis II’s re-entry using seismic and acoustic sensors, extending detection ranges farther offshore than ever before. Together, these efforts deepen our understanding of energy transfer, ejecta dynamics, and wave propagation—while expanding our capacity to monitor hazards throughout the journey to the Moon and back. // Dr. Carly Donahue, Senior Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory/Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Ocean and Resources Engineering, Mānoa Campus

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