The Extreme Environments focus area will progress technologies enabling the survival and operation of systems through the full range of lunar surface and subsurface conditions that drive engineering requirements. These technologies will enablelanders, rovers, manipulators, and other systems to operate through extreme conditions such as rapid temperature changes and permanently shadowed regions. Addition examples of extreme environments include exogenic factors (e.g. illumination, communications, radiation, plasma, micro-meteorites) and endogenic factors (e.g., dust, surface toxicity, regolith, rocks). An important expected output is the generation of an Extreme Environments User's Guide.

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Ben Greenhagen

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Ben Greenhagen

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Dr. Benjamin Greenhagen is aplanetary scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He is an expert in thermal infrared instrumentation and leads investigations into thermal emission from airless bodies. He also participates in a wide range of active missions and projects. He engages in the community and encourages professional and personal development at all career stages.

Karen Stockstill-Cahill

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Karen Stockstill-Cahill

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Dr. Karen Stockstill-Cahill is a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. She is an expert in UV-MIR laboratory spectroscopy and experimental simulation of surface environmental conditions on airless planetary bodies. At APL, she manages the Meteorite Lab and the Laboratory for Spectroscopy under Planetary Environmental Conditions. In that capacity, she engages in many interdisciplinary collaborations ranging from planetary fundamental research to engineering development projects.