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Our mission at the Center for Lunar Environment and Volatile Exploration Research (CLEVER) is to characterize and understand the lunar environment and volatile inventories required for near-term human lunar missions.

About CLEVER

The Center for Lunar Environment and Volatile Exploration Research (CLEVER) is one of many NASA SSERVI Centers (Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute). CLEVER will study the lunar environment and the generation and properties of volatiles and dust. CLEVER is related to REVEALS, a previous SSERVI Center at Georgia Tech.

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Lunar sample research could help protect astronauts and uncover origins of water on the moon

Lunar sample research could help protect astronauts and uncover origins of water on the moon

Dust and rocks residing on the surface of the moon take a beating in space. Without a protective magnetosphere and atmosphere like Earth's, the lunar surface faces continual particle bombardment from solar wind, cosmic rays, and micrometeoroids. This constant assault leads to space weathering. To read the full story, click here.

Christina Buffo holds out a narrow spray bottle with a scent called "The Small of Space" at the Atlanta Science Festival, March 9, 2023.
The “smell” of space!

The “smell” of space!

Georgia Tech graduate student Christina Buffo was on-hand at the 2023 Atlanta Science Festival to explain how far away Pluto is, and so that attendees could smell what space smells like. Read more about the festival and Georgia Tech's involvement in the article by...

CLEVER Research

CLEVER addresses three overlapping science and exploration themes. These focus on how the solar wind and micrometeorites produce volatiles, how ice and dust behave in the lunar environment, development of new materials to deal with potential dust buildup, and inventing new analysis tools to support the upcoming crewed missions of the Artemis program.