Our Mission
Our mission at CLEVER is to characterize and understand the lunar environment and volatile inventories required for near-term human lunar missions. CLEVER leverages a cohesive and diverse team of investigators to provide an integrated systems-level approach to characterizing and understanding the lunar environment and volatile inventories required for near-term human lunar exploration missions. The resources and knowledge are absolutely required for the sustainable presence of humans on the Moon.
What is CLEVER?
Led by Dr. Thomas Orlando of Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CLEVER is the successor to Orlando’s pioneering REVEALS (Radiation Effects on Volatiles and Exploration of Asteroids and Lunar Surfaces) center, another SSERVI at Georgia Tech. CLEVER’s interdisciplinary researchers will study lunar conditions and help develop new tools to support the upcoming crewed missions of the Artemis program. Both CLEVER and REVEALS are part of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute program.
How does SSERVI work?
CLEVER is a virtual institute created by NASA to study the lunar environment and the generation and properties of volatiles and dust. It’s what’s known as a Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). Members are domestic research institutions and international partners that use virtual technologies to enable and collaborate on new scientific efforts.
CLEVER Research
CLEVER addresses three overlapping science and exploration themes.
